North by Northside
by Christopher Hoeting After a five-year hiatus, the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery turned its compass to the northern side of Cincinnati to revive popular studio tour/art walk North By Northside. On May 18, 2014, event organizers Dennis Harrington and Kelly O’Donnell produced a rare opportunity to experience a comprehensive look at […]
Postcard from DC “American Cool”
by Marlene Steele National Portrait Gallery Feb. 7 – Sept 7 2014 This photography exhibition presents several decades of historic, artistic and contemporary images of American icons who embody the concept of “Cool”. What are the criteria of “coolness” for inclusion in this exhibition? ⁃ Original artistic vision with innovative signature style. ⁃ Represents cultural […]
The Photo Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett
AARON SKOLNICK’S 20 PAIRS OF SHOES, MAY 5, 2014, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett SAM FOY IN THE ARCHIVE GARDEN, MAY 5, 2014, The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett
Photos of Northside Studio Tour on May 18th
by Jens Rosenkrantz
Shawn Daniell: In Memorial
by Daniel Brown Shawn Daniell: In Memorial Shawn came to see me in 2010, when I had just taken over as Editor of aeqai. She was shy but certain that she had an idea that would be good for aeqai and for her. I remember her literally sitting on the edge of my couch, until […]
Tribute to Shawn Daniell (Buckenmeyer), 1977-2014
by Robert K. Wallace (submitted for the May 2014 issue of AEQAI) I first met Shawn as a journalist. In February 2011 she covered a lecture by the French artist Claire Illouz for The Northerner, NKU’s student newspaper. Illouz visited our campus on the way back from the Codex Book Fair in Berkeley, California, where […]
May Essay
by Daniel Brown The recent trip to New York by our symphony, The May Festival Chorus, The Cincinnati Opera, The Cincinnati Ballet, The Art Museum, The Taft Museum, The Ariel String Quartet from CCM, and seven area chefs represents a new opening wedge in branding and marketing Cincinnati nationally. What at first appeared to be […]
The Contemporary Arts Center Turns 75
by Daniel Brown Aeqai congratulates the CAC as it celebrates its 75 anniversary year. We have decided to help the festivities by asking two people a month to let us know what the CAC has meant to them. Aeqai will be asking former staff and board members, as well as artists who have shown there, […]
Geometrically Ordered Design: The One Language
by Dustin Pike In this article I will be dissecting the notion that letters and numbers have shared an integral relationship with each other since their very beginnings, which, in ancient Greek times, was called ‘Gematria’ or ‘Isopsophy’. The basic idea is that since numbers, and their inter-relationships, form the key to every science, it […]
Build Your Own Bauhaus (Design and Quality by Ikea of Sweden)
by Danelle Cheney Shortly after World War I in April 1919, Das Staatliche Bauhaus—The State Home for Building—opened under the leadership of 31-year old Walter Gropius. The new Bauhaus was a merger of two existing schools: the Weimar Arts and Crafts School and the Weimar Art Academy. This marriage of applied arts and fine arts […]