Art Basel Miami Beach
“To spend time in Miami is to acquire a certain fluency in cognitive dissonance.” – Joan Didion Both Miami and art fairs in general leave one feeling simultaneously elated and defeated, so an art fair in Miami is a natural choice. The Swiss figured this out about 15 years ago when they decided to bring […]
Failure in Progress // Zephyr Gallery
In 2014, Zephyr launched an ongoing Project series with curated proposal-based exhibitions as well as collaborations with universities, colleges, and cultural institutions. Project 20: Failure in Progress is the twentieth exhibition in this series. Failure in Progress is curated by Jessica Bennet Kincaid, currently the Coordinator of Collections and Exhibitions at the University of Louisville’s […]
Doug McGlumphy: “Regular Guy Monuments”, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery December 1, 2017 – January 28, 2018
What is regular? In Doug McGlumphy’s artist’s statement accompanying his exhibition now showing at the Weston Gallery in downtown Cincinnati, Ohio, he states that in this series of sculptures he seeks to “pay tribute to the ordinary worker.” McGlumphy writes, “I felt that little attention has been given to the daily contributions of the ‘regular […]
American Sign Museum: A Look at a Century of Signs
The American Sign Museum is off the beaten path. Hidden away in Camp Washington is a national museum devoted solely to signs. Located on 1330 Monmouth Ave., the museum is a one-story 20,000 square-foot building which covers over a century of signs. From hand-painted signs with gold leaf, the earliest electric signs, art deco […]
Fur-Free
Earlier this fall, we explored in two separate articles how the face of fashion has changed. First we delved into the past while visiting the Fashion and Technology installation in Gallery 104 of the Cincinnati Art Museum. From the earliest days, advances in machinery have defined what we know as modern day fashion. Take lace, […]
Team B Architecture and Design
Editor’s Note: Aeqai is pleased to republish Megan Bickel’s interview with Team B The inverview was originally published on Five-Dots. Team B Architecture & Design (made up of David Corns, Anna Kerr, Quinn Kummer, and John Stoughton) is a full-service studio located in Over-the-Rhine exploring the way in which form, space, and material can communicate […]
Gibbs Rounsavall
Editor’s Note: Aeqai is pleased to republish Megan Bickel’s interview with Gibbs Rounsavall. The interview was originally published on Five-Dots. Gibbs Rounsavall compares his studio practice to that of a scientific exploration embracing the thrill of discovery. The focus of his study has primarily been on relationships between shape and color. One of his bedrock […]