October 4th, 2014 | by Katie Dreyer | published in *, September 2014
Museums tend to be places where the public congregates to ruminate over the reminders of past people, places, and objects. Somewhere between holy awe at the importance of the items around you and an unspoken fear that with a single misstep you may knock over one of these priceless pieces, there is a certain feeling […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Sue Ann Painter | published in *, September 2014
The spirit of Daniel Burnham hovers over Fourth Street in Downtown Cincinnati. The famous Chicago architect and his associates created four commercial office buildings in Cincinnati’s financial district in the early twentieth century. And with the recent conversion of the shuttered Bartlett Building into a Marriott Renaissance hotel, the Burnham name is the buzzword for […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Emil Robinson | published in September 2014
Cody Gunningham has had a show of new paintings up at the Richard Butz Gallery on Main Street in Over the Rhine for the last month. The show continues until October 26. Cody is a recent Art Academy graduate who transitioned from work in illustration to work in painting. Despite his young age, Cody’s work […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Stacy Sims | published in September 2014
A new frontier has been created at Cincinnati’s 21c Museum Hotel. In both the lobby level and second floor galleries, contemporary artists have represented a world in which nature has both run amok and made perfect, symbiotic, evolutionary sense of our post-post-modern, trans-everything world. In this mesmerizing exhibition curated by 21c curator Alice Gray Stites, […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Keith Banner | published in September 2014
The painting at the center of “Conversations around American Gothic,” the new exhibit at Cincinnati Art Museum (up through November 16, 2014), is a classic, yet has a whispered, cautious meanness that allows it to be both poetically absurd and ironically iconic. There’s a Norman-Rockwell plasticity that is about to melt here; a force inside […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Fran Watson | published in September 2014
Far from warm fuzzy art, (no sunset fields here), Jack Arthur Wood, Jr. has hung a scary, shocking, and ferocious show called “This is the Worst” at Clay Street Gallery; the kind of scary that draws people to horror shows, and macabre stories. Add to this a whopping big dollop of fine art and you […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Robert Wallace | published in September 2014
Having gotten lost finding Ash Street to see a six person private exhibition curated by Mary Heider, I finally arrived at 506 Ash Street on this beautiful, sunny, cloudless Saturday afternoon in the seventies, just about everyone was saying how hard it was to find their way here—and what an unexpected pleasure it was once […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Cynthia Kukla | published in September 2014
Why a new exhibition on Magritte? “René Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926-1938,” is the Art Institute of Chicago’s season blockbuster. This stunning exhibition is the first that zeroes in on Magritte’s most inventive and experimental years, showing us his seminal experiments of 1926-27 on through 1938. I was bowled over. Among art lovers, […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Matthew Metzger | published in September 2014
Le Brun’s paintings have always treaded diverse stylistic ground. They’ve explored classical literature, Wagnerian music, poetry and history through quintessentially romantic “subjects” like, forests, knights, adventurers, horses and gallivants. Whatever the subject, with Le Brun’s work we find ourselves in that misty area where what is represented is not actually portrayed. A type of art, […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Katie Dreyer | published in September 2014
When I found out I would be traveling back to Los Angeles for the first time in 2 years I knew exactly where I wanted to go, and within an hour of landing at LAX I had arrived at my own personal mecca, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Without hesitation, I headed past […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Jane Durrell | published in September 2014
I am in Mantua (well, Mantova to the home folks), having dinner under a groined and painted ceiling in a square room with remnants of frescoes on the wall. I have spent the day in palaces, specifically the palazzo the Gonzango family called home and the other one, the Palazzo del Te, where they hung […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Louis Z. Bickett | published in September 2014
DOWN RIVER Early morning commute down river. Golden clouds floating low over my head. Marshland smells in my nose. G.M. Stewart Savannah, GA September 4, 2014 Gregory Michael Stewart is a poet and Country Club Golf Course Greenskeeper living in Savannah, GA
October 4th, 2014 | by Saad Ghosn | published in September 2014
I. Images For A Better World: Suzanne CHOUTEAU, Visual Artist Suzanne Michele Chouteau is Professor of Art at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. She teaches a variety of courses including printmaking, art history and a summer course in Rome. Chouteau received her BA in Art from Saint Ambrose University, Davenport, IA, and MA and MFA […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Elizabeth Teslow | published in September 2014
“I think probably every student in art school has these fantasies of ‘making it’ as an artist in the art world—the next Picasso, the next Diebenkorn; this is because you are still that ‘artistic’ child that believes you (and only you) are the only one that exists, that feels, that touches and that experiences life […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Laura Hobson | published in September 2014
It is ironic that painter Donna Talerico’s maiden name is Artis. Although she doesn’t use it professionally, she ended up pursuing a successful career as an artist after many years as a fashion illustrator. Born in West Virginia, Talerico cites her maternal grandmother Helena Daming as one of her major influences. A 1919 war bride, […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in Announcements, September 2014
The September ÆQAI has just posted. We apologize that it’s a couple of days late, but we had a lot of writers out of town, a very sick webmaster, and I moved in the middle of the last week of September. But we think that it’s an exceptional issue, and hope that you, too, find […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in September 2014
Tasmanian writer Richard Flanagan’s new novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North is highly likely to win this year’s Man Booker Prize in literature. The Booker Prize (which was recently spoofed in Edward St. Aubyn’s newest novel to great affect) is probably the most important literary award in the world, including the Nobel Prize. […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in September 2014
We have learned to expect both excellence and brilliance from English writer Ian McEwan. His new novel, The Children Act, may possibly be his finest book yet, although I am not certain that such a remark is even necessary since so many of them are superior. The ambiguous title, which I originally took to mean […]
October 4th, 2014 | by Daniel Brown | published in September 2014
The enthusiasm for the new Fall season in the visual arts is very high. We are seeing more creative exhibition venues, as well as our regular museums, galleries, non-profits, and even restaurants that display art. Quite a few invitations have been arriving from artists having small shows on Sunday afternoons or Saturday evenings, when, we […]
