If you are in New York before August 7, see Turner’s Whaling Pictures at the Metropolitan Museum.  Turner exhibited Whalers and The Whale Ship at London’s Royal Academy in 1845, followed by “Hurrah! for the Whaler Erebus! Another Fish!” and Whalers (Boiling Blubber) in 1846.  The four works were unsold in Turner’s private gallery when […]

Having gotten lost finding Ash Street to see a six person private exhibition curated by Mary Heider, I finally arrived at 506 Ash Street on this beautiful, sunny, cloudless Saturday afternoon in the seventies, just about everyone was saying how hard it was to find their way here—and what an unexpected pleasure it was once […]

by Robert K. Wallace (submitted for the May 2014 issue of AEQAI) I first met Shawn as a journalist. In February 2011 she covered a lecture by the French artist Claire Illouz for The Northerner, NKU’s student newspaper. Illouz visited our campus on the way back from the Codex Book Fair in Berkeley, California, where […]

by Robert K. Wallace Wild Card: The Art of Michael Combs, A Fifteen-Year Survey. One of the attractions Newport-on-the-Levee has brought to Greater Cincinnati is the tourist version of the World War II “duck boat” on which you can cruise the Ohio River.  Those of us who remember the “duck boat” that got run over […]

Letter from Highland Heights: Moby-Dick Art by Matt Kish and Robert Del Tredici By Robert K. Wallace Moby-Dick seems to be everywhere these days. This month of November brought me three new examples. On November 1 PBS broadcast Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick opera as part of its Great Performances series. A few days […]

Letter from Bellevue:  Red-Line Elegy By Robert K. Wallace It was a typical Friday night.  Immediately after dinner I was going to drive into Cincinnati over the Big Mac Bridge, check out the show at the Weston Gallery near the Aronoff, drop in at Hewett Gallery near the Pendleton, and then head up to the […]