January 20th, 2013 | by Brett Baker | published in *, January 2013
Letter from New York: Inheritance and Potential ~ Brett Baker After an autumn spent in the studio and with less time for gallery-going, I have recently been reflecting on several surprising shows from the past summer. The more mainstream of these included Josef Albers’ painterly studies at the Morgan Library, rarely seen works by […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Kevin Ott | published in *, January 2013
The CAM: Time For A Dedicated Print Gallery? ~ Kevin Ott The Cincinnati Art Museum is nearing completion of the former Art Academy building which will house the Mary Schiff Library, offices and other spaces, including a beautiful terrace with outstanding views. Most importantly, this will result in an increase of 15,000 square feet or […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Stephen Slaughter | published in *, January 2013
“Osmosis” Blinded me with Science ~ Stephen Slaughter Biology Osmosis: A process by which molecules of a solvent tend to pass through a semipermeable membrane from a less concentrated solution into a more concentrated one, thus equalizing the concentrations on each side of the membrane. Physics The Pauli Exclusion Principle: The quantum mechanical principle that […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Christopher Hoeting | published in January 2013
“Straight from the Soul” ~ Christopher Hoeting “Straight from the Soul,” Kevin Cole’s exhibition at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Gallery, opened to a warm reception amid Cincinnati’s winter season. Cole is no stranger to Cincinnati, as indicated by the presence of numerous friendly faces. I would be remiss if I did not […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Tamara Muente | published in January 2013
Sorting through 80 Years of Taft History ~ Tamara Lenz Muente, Assistant Curator, Taft Museum of Art The Taft Museum of Art celebrated its 80th anniversary on November 29, 2012. To commemorate the occasion, museum staff mined the archives for documents that could illustrate the history of the museum in a way never before seen […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Dustin Pike | published in January 2013
Geometrically Ordered Design: The Great Eight ~ Dustin Pike This is my eighth 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 […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Jane Durrell | published in January 2013
Review, Frank Satogata at Xavier University Art Gallery ~ Jane Durell The surest antidote to a bleak winter day could be the joyous exhibition of paintings and prints by Frank Satogata at the Xavier University Art Gallery now through February 15. Satogata loves color as surely as Romeo loved Juliet, but with happier consequences. He […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Shawn Daniell | published in January 2013
PulP Art: Exploring Paper as an artistic medium ~ Shawn Daniell Paper had its beginnings sometime around AD 105 in China and has become a staple in many facets of our lives. But if you can’t look beyond paper’s basic uses such as a writing surface, advertisement materials, product packaging, or books, then you’re blinding […]
January 20th, 2013 | by James Cummins | published in January 2013
Hick And Willie At The Art Institute ~ James Cummins Hick: “Seeing paintings by Beckman and Matisse, one understands the S/M dance of Germany and France a little better, ‘eef yoo pleece.’ ” Willie: “All the kids seem to love Monet— and if someone insists on trumpeting him, well, I say, heck, let […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Marlene Steele | published in January 2013
THE NUDE: Self & Others ~ Marlene Steele This year’s Lexington Art League Nude show exhibits portraiture and figurative work with a marked emphasis on conceptual undercurrents of personal and sexual identity, the body as object, the body as experience, societal pressures, politics and violence. The first hall presents a series of figure wall hangings […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Maxwell Redder | published in January 2013
Cedric Cox and the New Cubism – Maxwell Redder Few artists in Cincinnati have emerged so quickly and ubiquitously as Cedric Michael Cox. A 1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Cincinnati’s Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Program, he has in the last four years landed four solo exhibits at top exhibition […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Saad Ghosn | published in January 2013
by Saad Ghosn “Art For A Better World” is a new column that will regularly feature Greater Cincinnati Artists who use their art for a message and for a change. Each column, divided into two sections titled respectively “Images for a Better World” and “Words for a Better World”, will give the stage to a […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Keith Banner | published in January 2013
Where Do Broken Hearts Go? The Periphery Gets Centralized in Enlightened ~Keith Banner In the freakishly astute situation comedy Enlightened (Sunday nights at 9:30 pm on HBO), tall and stately Laura Dern plays Amy Jellicoe, a great big loser beyond compare. Amy’s whole life has gone into a black hole she seems hell-bent on […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Daniel Brown | published in January 2013
Book Review: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg ~ Daniel Brown Early in the new year, a young novelist’s new , or sometimes first, book is published and surprises me with its quality; last year, it was Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds, a splendid look at an American man and a Bangladeshi woman who meet over the […]
January 20th, 2013 | by David Schloss | published in January 2013
Other Films of Note from 2012 –David Schloss There were many films I saw in Cincinnati last year that I thought deserving of honorable mentions. My best of 2012 list from last month was based on the same pool as the Golden Globes and Oscars Best Picture nominees, with a few exceptions: Django Unchained and […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Maxwell Redder | published in January 2013
Poetry by Maxwell Redder Garden Thought Lifting the large rock, smooth with a few dimples like my grandfather’s face, I found positivity living in the mud under it: Worm-wiggle squirms, needle-toothed beetles, and karma-dowsed larva mingling in harmony. Paper Mountain I’d tear down a building With a hammer and teardrop And move […]
January 20th, 2013 | by Daniel Brown | published in January 2013
Letter from the Editor The January aeqai is full of reviews, as well as a few new regular columns and some essays. A lot of institutions and most commercial galleries hold their December or fall shows through the first few weeks of January, as the remains of the holidays (bills, in most cases) wend their […]
