October 26th, 2019 | by Joelle Jameson | published in October 2019
“She has an interesting eye… but it’s wildly different than anything I would hang in my house.” I overheard a woman say that to her friend in “Order of Imagination,” a moving retrospective of Olivia Parker’s forty-plus years of photo-making at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. Maybe I’ve followed one too many collage […]
October 26th, 2019 | by C. Miles Turner | published in October 2019
Earlier this year, the Lloyd Library and Museum in downtown Cincinnati, OH, launched their Artist-in-Residence program with an aim to enrich and bolster support for the arts. Recipients of the residency are tasked with interpreting and integrating the Lloyd Library’s collections, including botany; natural history; early travel and exploration; and histories of science, medicine, and […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Josh Beckelhimer | published in October 2019
Cincinnati appreciators of art are, at this point, more than likely familiar with the FotoFocus Biennial. Every other year since 2010 FotoFocus has brought compelling, intellectual explorations of “digital technology’s impact on photography and video” to the region. FotoFocus commissions exhibitions across the city that work together to explore different artistic ideas that fall under […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Matthew McBride | published in October 2019
Jim Condron’s newest show, “You Never Wash It Off Completely,” was commissioned by Wilson College as part of its sesquicentennial celebration and will run until December 15th at the Sue Davidson Cooley Gallery. For the show, Condron created three large, site-specific installations. No gasp at a miracle that is truly miraculous because the magic lies […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Megan Bickel | published in October 2019
“I thought, maybe you have to choose between happiness and truth and that is when I had my five imaginary children and I became happy.” And Other Self-Affirming Quasi-Truths by September Diencephalon at Institute 193. Before making my drive to Lexington to see September Diencephalon’s exhibition, Children Dance on Water I Wonder Why They Wash […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Will Newman | published in October 2019
Lebanon has endured a tumultuous 45 years. Transitioning from the site of the “Paris of the Middle East” to a 15 year civil war, and the presence of Syrian troops for 29 years brought traumatic changes to the Mediterranean nation. Recent estimates for the ratio of current refugees within Lebanon place one refugee for every […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Steve Kemple | published in October 2019
A taut crimson thread inscribes a tension between two forms, not so much seen as felt. It wraps around a smooth basalt stone on the gallery’s floor, extending some feet up to a suspended form, a spectral lattice, like a 3D-printed tumbleweed, defined less by its appearance than its lightness and upward gesture — like […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Kent Krugh | published in October 2019
Selections from “Retrato Femenino”. Series in progress since 2011 About Evelyn Sosa: Evelyn Sosa Rojas was born in 1989 in Havana, Cuba where she lives and works. Sos specializes in portraits when she is not busy covering events like the Havana Marathon. Sosa shows the power of femininity through photos of women in different familiar […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Jane Durrell | published in October 2019
By its nature, Art in Bloom at the Cincinnati Art Museum comes and goes quickly in its biennial appearances. This year’s took place October 17 – 20 and as usual brightened the experience of Museum-goers on those fortunate days. If visual art is sometimes considered a for-the-ages sort of thing, blooming flowers are its exact […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Laura Hobson | published in October 2019
Decorative Arts Society of Cincinnati has a long tradition in town. In 1981 Dr. and Mrs. Kenneth Kreines joined a few like-minded friends who enjoyed learning more about decorative arts. The Kreineses loved folk art and Americana. An intimate group eventually morphed into the Decorative Arts Society of Cincinnati. In 1983, it became a 501©(3) […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Jenny Perusek | published in October 2019
Let’s face it. It’s a scary world out there. Even if your daily wardrobe consists primarily of rose-colored glasses, one can’t deny our world is going through changes of seismic proportions nearly every day. And the fashion world, one of stunning beauty and whimsical folly at times, is not immune to these changes. Designers at […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Daniel Brown | published in October 2019
I almost stopped reading “Trust Exercise”, by Susan Choi, about a third of the way into the novel, and I cannot tell you how glad I am that I didn’t. It’s an amazingly clever and psychologically astute novel. The novel, purportedly written by a former student of a Performing Arts High School somewhere in The […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Daniel Brown | published in October 2019
“Night Boat to Tangier”, by Irish novelist Kevin Barry, is nothing short of magnificent. Two Irish-born men, Maurice and Charlie, now middle-aged or slightly older, find themselves in a somewhat sleazy port city in Spain, where they’re waiting/hoping to see Maurice’s long-lost daughter Dilly, who’d run away years back after her mother, Maurice’s wife, died […]
October 26th, 2019 | by Daniel Brown | published in October 2019
“Copperhead”, a new novel by Alexi Zentner, is essential reading in today’s politically overcharged era. Inventing a university clearly based upon Cornell, in upstate New York, where the author presumably teaches, “Copperhead” presents issues regarding race and class in ways different from the dynamics and dialectics we are used to reading or hearing about. And […]
