February 27th, 2022 | by Barbara Moss | published in *, February 2022
How do we define a grid? When does an artist find it desirable to exploit the grid’s rigid constraints? And when is it more interesting to modify or even reject them? This exhibit educates about forms and formats of fiber art. Immediately catching the gallery visitor’s eye are two black-and-white weavings that their makers call […]
February 27th, 2022 | by Jonathan Kamholtz | published in *, February 2022
Summerfair began in 1968, more than fifty years ago, as something of a street fair that spilled over into all the available spaces in Mt. Adams. It became more professionalized (juries and the like) in its first move to Coney Island, and then in the 1970s it moved to the Riverfront area, which is where […]
February 27th, 2022 | by Dana Tindall | published in *, February 2022
Caza Sikes is currently presenting a 30-piece retrospective of works by prominent Cincinnati artist Tom Towhey. The show spans the last 40 years of his appealing and unique work. It is a vibrant show, filled with a broad range of new and older borrowed pieces, beginning with images for Gibson Greetings, Inc., a Cincinnati based […]
February 27th, 2022 | by Ekin Erkan | published in *, February 2022
Kate Oh’s Gallery’s new exhibition, The Korean Archetype, on view from March 1 until March 11, 2022, introduces the stridently feminist work of Miky (Yoohyun) Kim to a wider audience. I characterize Kim’s work as “stridently feminist” even though Kim is not interested in veridical or representational indices that directly cull femininity nor straightforwardly espouse […]
February 27th, 2022 | by Josh Beckelhimer | published in *, February 2022
Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s “City of Cinema: Paris 1850-1907” exhibition, places us squarely in the middle of the era. There are a handful of projections on the walls, mostly consisting of films by the famous Lumiere Brothers’ cinematographs. My favorite depicts Les Halles, the grand markets of a past Paris. Les Halles provided […]
February 27th, 2022 | by Vaishnavi Ramanathan | published in February 2022
Art is a potent vehicle of change for it affects both the maker and the viewer in a manner that no other medium can. SOS ART Cincinnati recognizes this and for the last 19 years has been using art as a tool for social change. One of the important activities of the organization is the […]
February 27th, 2022 | by Laura Hobson | published in February 2022
Two hundred years have passed, and the historic house at the Taft Museum of Art still stands. In 1932 the Taft Museum of Art opened with the personal art collection of Anna Sinton Taft and Charles Phelps Taft. Now, the museum, located in this historic house is undergoing an extensive preservation project. The house was […]
