Poem: Quitting a Job that was Good to Me
by Maxwell Redder I. Production moving up is a scummy tank whose bubbles always read as green because the budget doesn’t allow for a thorough scrubbing II. Hierarchy: everyone has eyes that report to other sets like a wave, slowly and always concentrating on the tip: anticipate a breaking point. III. Low Management (Peace Keepers), […]
Poem: Like Turning off a Light
by Alissa Sammarco Magenheim Like turning off a light, Time stopped The era was ended, And suddenly I sat Staring at myself In the mirror. Fingers tracing lines, Pretending that all my sorrows Were fulfilled and borrowed From someone else. Pretending that sighs stopped And crying had no more food When my laughter Cascaded across […]
Poem: Overheard On The Corner
by Louis Bickett OVERHEARD ON THE CORNER OF BROADWAY & MAIN, LEXINGTON, KENTUCKY Overheard on the street in front of Starbuck’s with a lb. of just ground Sumatra fresh in my nose, a weathered drunk screaming to no one in particular “We don’t need no machine to tell us what to do. We live in […]
Letter from the Editor – April
I would like to thank everyone who came to, or helped with, the aeqai benefit party at Marta Hewett Gallery on April 17th. The event was highly successful, and generated 125% more money than last year’s. We also want to thank all the artists who were kind enough to donate their work for our silent […]
AEQAI Spring Benefit
AEQAI SPRING BENEFIT Thursday, April 17th 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm AEQAI, one of the fastest growing online art journals in America, offers critical reviews, informative profiles and features, and insightful essays and analyses. Join us as we celebrate four years of success and help to support another year of critical reviews, informative reports and […]
Love for Sale: Genius and Grace: Francois Boucher and the Generation of 1700
by Jonathan Kamholtz Cincinnati Art Museum February 14, 2014-May 11, 2014 In Jean Restout’s “Pygmalion and Galatea,” the statue of Galatea, newly come to life, spreads her arms and bares her breasts to the adoring sculptor. She seems less surprised at her new incarnation than he does; he gazes at him with a sophisticated, impish […]
Ain’t Misbehavin’
by Stephen Slaughter “Buildering, Misbehaving the City” and KniveandFork Questions and Answers Space and Place The Ordinary and the Banal The objective of architecture is works of art that are lived in. The city is the largest, and at present the worst of such works of art. Functionalism (to speak roughly of the heroic period […]
A Group Exhibition Curated by Yvonne Van Eijden
by Karen Chambers “CCAC (Clifton Cultural Arts Center) will have a beautiful show with these five artists.” That’s how the curator, Yvonne van Eitjden, described the exhibition of two photographers, two wood sculptors, and one painter (herself [Why, oh why, do curators include their own work in exhibitions? How about they make a pact with […]
Erwin’s Pastels: Recent Portraits Studies of Estrangement and Reconciliation
by Marlene Steele Gaela Erwin, Manifest Gallery Cincinnati Ohio Chi.a.ro.scu.ro: An effect of contrasted light and shadow. Origin Latin: chiaro ‘clear,bright’ + oscuro ‘dark, obscure’ Pas.tel pastel: noun: a crayon made of powdered pigments bound with gum or resin. adjective: of a soft and delicate shade or color. The interlude where I met Gaela Erwin […]
Epic Epicene: Michael Combs at 21C (Cincinnati)
by Keith Banner In 1964, Susan Sontag wrote an essay called “Notes on ‘Camp’” that still wraps and winds its tentacles throughout culture today. Basically a survey of “Camp’s” meanings, practices and perversions, the essay reads like a Bible for drag, piss-elegance and artful political incorrectness used to both disembowel and deconstruct the mainstream. When […]