December 2012
December 19th, 2012 | by
Keith Banner | published in
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Keith Banner Welcome to the Hotel Synesthesia: 21C, Downtown Cincinnati By Keith Banner “If you don’t know where you are going any road can take you there.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland The day after 21C Cincinnati, the lush hotel/museum right next door to the Contemporary Art Center, opened, I went for a visit. […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Laura P. Yoo | published in
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Shinji Turner-Yamamoto on the Nature of Things By Laura P. Yoo Cincinnati is no stranger to the work of internationally recognized artist Shinji Turner-Yamamoto. He marveled viewers with his site-specific Hanging Garden installation (part of his larger Global Tree Project) at the Holy Cross Church in Mt. Adams in 2010. Developing site-specific work is Turner-Yamamoto’s […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Daniel Brown | published in
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End of the Year Best Fiction of 2012 Although The New York Times Books Review’s editors found 2012 to be an exceptionally exciting year for new fiction, I found the opposite to be the case: 2012 was one of the weakest years , overall, for new fiction in over a decade. Of course, good and some […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Fran Watson | published in
December 2012
“NINE” BY THE NUMBER by Fran Watson Carnegie Arts Center, 1028 Scott St., Covington, Ky. November 16 – December 21 If you believe you can never have too much of a good thing, you will be feasting on outside-the-box creativity at the Carnegie Arts Center this month. Terri Kernʼs small book-themed pieces are at their […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Karen Chambers | published in
December 2012
Standing in Time’s Flow, Ceramic Sculpture by Robert Pulley, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery By Karen S. Chambers Robert Pulley has found the perfect medium for his sculptures with their allusions to the earth’s geological history: clay, which is just mud, and perhaps symbolic of the primordial ooze of the beginnings of […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Stephen Slaughter | published in
December 2012
Boundless Flock By Stephen Slaughter “A world without rules and controls, without borders and boundaries. A world where anything is possible where, we go from there is a choice I leave to you.” Keanu Reeves as Neo, The Matrix, Warner Brothers 1999 Art Beyond Boundaries is a gallery on Main Street in Over-the-Rhine whose mission […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Dustin Pike | published in
December 2012
Geometrically Ordered Design: The Eternal Virgin By: Dustin Pike This is my seventh article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make. How well the ‘point’ can be made is attributed to how […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Kevin Ott | published in
December 2012
“Saint Preaching” Jorge Ingles 1475-1500 Oil and Tempera on panel By Kevin Ott If you start your Cincinnati Art Museum trip by heading up the stairs off the lobby and go right and then proceed through the first large room, you will come to a smaller room that contains several great religious paintings, mostly […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Emil Robinson | published in
December 2012
Sarah Vanderlip at the Cincinnati Art Museum Review by Emil Robinson Sarah Vanderlip’s show at the Cincinnati Art Museum, September 29, 2012-December 9, 2012, entitled Drawings For Sculptures of Buildings, is the inaugural show for the new triennial competition, The Marjorie Schiele Prize. Marjorie Schiele was a Cincinnati artist who spent her life traveling between […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Kathy Valin | published in
December 2012
A DARK AND ARTY NIGHT: INTRIGUING COLLABORATIONS FEATURE MUSIC AND DANCE INSPIRED BY VISUAL ART – by Kathy Valin On a chilly Cincinnati evening – December 4, 2012 – in the company of two friends, I ascended Mount Adams after being picked up from Over-the-Rhine. We were in search of a dose of seriously […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Cate Yellig | published in
December 2012
New Paintings by Kim Krause – Part of the Exhibition Slide at The Fitton Center (Hamilton) By Cate Yellig In a brief curatorial statement we get the gist of the exhibition Slide: Sculptural Installations by Pamela DeCoker and Alysia Fischer, Paintings by Kim Krause and CK Nichelson. It mingles four Ohio based artists who utilize […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Shawn Daniell | published in
December 2012
The Human Side of the American Flag By Shawn Daniell In 1974’s Spence v. Washington, the United States Supreme Court stated, “A person gets from a symbol the meaning he puts into it.” I’m inclined to agree with that statement. For me, the American flag represents a symbol that is open to interpretation, in that […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Regan Brown | published in
December 2012
Of Magic Mushrooms and Mushroom Clouds: A Merrily Alchemical Christmas from the Lloyd Library and Museum. “One of the premier scientific and cultural libraries in the world.” ―Nicholas P. Money, Miami […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
David Schloss | published in
December 2012
Best films lists of 2012 — David Schloss I’m considering films that showed in Cincinnati this past year, so here are my lists, in order of their playing here– a kind of top 20 playlist of films worth seeing. For the near future, Zero Dark Thirty, by Kathryn Bigelow, and Rust and Bone by Jacques […]
December 19th, 2012 | by
Daniel Brown | published in
Announcements, December 2012
We are pleased to bring you the December issue of aeqai, probably our largest issue ever, and perhaps our most comprehensive. One of our primary goals is to cover as many aspects of the visual arts communities in Greater Cincinnati as we can, in each issue. This aeqai again reflects the richness and diversity of programming and […]