Editor’s comments. February Post 2023

Marlene Steele

March 1, 2023

While the Cincinnati Spring is even more of a rollercoaster ride than usual, Aeqai covers several exciting exhibitions for your avid interest.

Ecologies of Elsewhere

Sue Spaid

March 1, 2023

Whether “plant chic,” a repository for ancestral knowledge, or “floraporn,” “Ecologies of Elsewhere” at the Contemporary Arts Center highlights human beings’ selfish motives. If this show is any indication, plant appreciators appear more interested in human wellbeing than plant wellbeing.

Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer?

William Messer

March 1, 2023

Ceramicus Sculptus ‘Krohn’

Jean-François Paquay and Sue Spaid

March 1, 2023

Don’t miss an opportunity to see “Ceramicus Sculptus ‘Krohn’,” an exhibition of ceramic sculptures gleaming like “hothouse flowers” in the Krohn Conservatory in Eden Park, Cincinnati, on view through June 18, 2023. Visitors to this exhibition truly wonder, “How did they do that?”

Japanese Netsuke: Hidden Wit and Whimsy

Helen Rindsberg

March 1, 2023

Fashion accessories can be great fun, but what if you must hide them? This wasn’t a rhetorical question for trendy Japanese gentlemen in the Edo Period (1603-1868).

Platow’s Vision: The JB Speed Museum

Cynthia Osborne Hoskin

March 1, 2023

The duties of a museum director are vast, complex and persistent. Just ask Raphaela Platow, new director at the Speed Museum, Louisville.

A Garden in Time: Hayley Barker Paints an Echo Park Life

Josh Beckelhimer

March 1, 2023

Hayler Barker takes viewers into the home of longtime activist Angeleno Isa-Kae Meksin. By reflecting on Meksin’s garden, apartment and neighborhood, Barker provides an intimate glimpse into the power of everyday interactions with the nonhuman world that bustles around us.

Aeqai 15th Annual Fundraiser Success Recap

Marlene Steele

March 1, 2023

The Aeqai 15th Annual Fundraiser was held at the Annex Gallery, Pendleton Art Center, Cincinnati Ohio on February 2nd, 2023 with a silent auction entitled ”EIGHT BUY EIGHT.”

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