January/February 2020
February 15th, 2020 | by
Josh Beckelhimer | published in
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On view through April 5th at the Weston is an exhibition by a Cincinnati native and current New York dweller, Todd Pavlisko. Pavlisko’s “Pop Supernatural,” is – as you might guess – guided by conversations with popular culture. The Weston’s two floors organize the exhibition. The entrance level floor holds a few different threads, while […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Stewart Maxwell | published in
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In the midst of Downtown Cincinnati, there is a much beloved architecturally and historically significant building celebrating its 200th birthday. With the exception of a few other early American and European Colonial and Native American structures on this continent, most have not survived and even fewer in this region of our country. Cincinnati was founded […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Steve Kemple | published in
January/February 2020
As a longtime resident of the Midwest I’ve come to know the region less as a single place but rather as a transient crossroads of many contradictory things. Maybe that’s why I’ve always been skeptical of attempts to reduce it to an essence, which in my experience resides more in the nebulous than the nameable. […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Megan Bickel | published in
January/February 2020
There is tragedy in losing control where control has been sought as a defense. “The Cave” of the title is the nickname for an underground hospital in Ghouta, a district not far outside of the Syrian capital of Damascus. Ghouta has been a flashpoint of violence during the seemingly endless Syrian civil war. “Underground” works […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Sara Vance | published in
January/February 2020
By Sara M. Vance Waddell Edited by Michelle Vance Waddell There have been numerous women pioneers that have made strides for themselves and their gender over the years to garner equality. One significant stride occurred 100 years ago this year, the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. Finally, women thought, […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Karen Chambers | published in
January/February 2020
At Ruth’s Parkside Café, a popular eatery in Northside (try the salmon), co-owner David Tape continues his commitment to showing local artists. He’s be Born in Chicago in 1955 and reared there and in the Kansas City area, Britton2 realized he wanted to be an artist when he saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Marlene Steele | published in
January/February 2020
Two exciting artists are exhibiting at Caza Sikes Gallery in Oakley and their work is well married in a number of ways. Jan Wiesner continues her series of female fables and environmental heroines. Tom Towhey displays a variety of colorful fantasy paintings that merge his environments with his love of gardening. Typically of Towhey, surprising […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Daniel Burr | published in
January/February 2020
Holland Davidson’s paintings have a compulsive quality; it is as if she cannot not help but paint them and we cannot help but try to fathom the intricate patterns and unsettling images that fill each canvas. Davidson’s work is on view at Indian Hill Gallery in “Along the Line,” a show that features sixteen large […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Jane Durrell | published in
January/February 2020
Carolyn Shine, who died late last year at the age of 101, lived a life illuminated by visual arts and illuminated those arts for others. She was my colleague at the Cincinnati Art Museum, my friend before that, and always an example of life lived well. A Cincinnatian by birth, Carolyn’s home from the beginning […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
William Messer | published in
January/February 2020
In the autumn of 2019, two giants of American photographic arts died, a mere seven days apart from each other. They were close friends and neighbors in the New York of the ‘50s, at one time even working together on the same project (a film). Both were Jewish, and deeply humanistic, and both had children […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
William Messer | published in
January/February 2020
New York City in the 1950s and early ’60s was alive with art and music. The Abstract Expressionists were painting, the Beats were writing and reading poetry, performance art was taking off, jazz was everywhere and what would be called folk music was also being heard. Robert Frank was in his ‘30s making photographs, then […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Steve Kemple | published in
January/February 2020
“Sous les pavés, la plage!” (“Under the paving stones, the beach!”) went the rallying cry of French students in the protests of May ‘68. Referring to the sand found beneath Paris cobblestones lifted to hurl at police and build barricades, this phrase, soon championed by the Situationists[1], came to symbolize a reclamation of freedom through […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Cynthia Kukla | published in
January/February 2020
Located just below the Artic Circle, Iceland is the Land of Fire and Ice: a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic defined by its dramatic landscape with one-hundred thirty volcanic mountains, geysers, hot springs and lava fields. Iceland mostly stays quietly out of the news – but in 2010 – Iceland was major global […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Matthew McBride | published in
January/February 2020
A dilemma faced by any art museum is how to keep the public consistently engaged. One way to do this is through visiting exhibitions, which are essential to the vibrancy of the museum. However, what about the permanent collection? How can a museum newly engage patrons with paintings they may have seen many times before? […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Hannah Leow | published in
January/February 2020
Carried across the country by a Seattle transplant, a little piece of Cincinnati finds its way into the Emerald City’s soil. Now on display at Specialist, a gallery and artist-run space, artist Jay Stern features his first solo exhibition: I Remember Feeling Far. With a centrally creative background, Stern has worked in the industries of […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Jenny Perusek | published in
January/February 2020
176 looks. 50 years of fashion. One iconic runway show. That’s how you end a career. Or, more aptly, that’s how iconic fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier retires. The final collection of any famed designer is always one met with sadness … Will anyone have a voice in fashion like them again? Will they be […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Daniel Brown | published in
January/February 2020
“American Dirt”, the new and much anticipated novel by Jeanine Cummins, has caused a huge kerfluffle in leftist literary circles and amongst a number of writers of Mexican heritage, amongst others. The novel itself may be getting lost in the swirls of controversy. Cummins, who is a mostly white woman (her father was Puerto Rican), […]
February 15th, 2020 | by
Daniel Brown | published in
January/February 2020
A very good friend of mine recently observed that I probably read more than most people do; I’ve been a serious reader of mostly fiction since my junior year in high school way back in the ’60s. So when I claim that Niall Williams’ new novel “This Is Happiness” is the most beautiful novel I’ve […]