Cedric Cox and the New Cubism
Cedric Cox and the New Cubism – Maxwell Redder Few artists in Cincinnati have emerged so quickly and ubiquitously as Cedric Michael Cox. A 1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Cincinnati’s Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Program, he has in the last four years landed four solo exhibits at top exhibition […]
ART FOR A BETTER WORLD
by Saad Ghosn “Art For A Better World” is a new column that will regularly feature Greater Cincinnati Artists who use their art for a message and for a change. Each column, divided into two sections titled respectively “Images for a Better World” and “Words for a Better World”, will give the stage to a […]
Where Do Broken Hearts Go? The Periphery Gets Centralized in Enlightened
Where Do Broken Hearts Go? The Periphery Gets Centralized in Enlightened ~Keith Banner In the freakishly astute situation comedy Enlightened (Sunday nights at 9:30 pm on HBO), tall and stately Laura Dern plays Amy Jellicoe, a great big loser beyond compare. Amy’s whole life has gone into a black hole she seems hell-bent on […]
Book Review: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
Book Review: The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg ~ Daniel Brown Early in the new year, a young novelist’s new , or sometimes first, book is published and surprises me with its quality; last year, it was Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds, a splendid look at an American man and a Bangladeshi woman who meet over the […]
Other Films of Note from 2012
Other Films of Note from 2012 –David Schloss There were many films I saw in Cincinnati last year that I thought deserving of honorable mentions. My best of 2012 list from last month was based on the same pool as the Golden Globes and Oscars Best Picture nominees, with a few exceptions: Django Unchained and […]
AEQAI Poetry Corner
Poetry by Maxwell Redder Garden Thought Lifting the large rock, smooth with a few dimples like my grandfather’s face, I found positivity living in the mud under it: Worm-wiggle squirms, needle-toothed beetles, and karma-dowsed larva mingling in harmony. Paper Mountain I’d tear down a building With a hammer and teardrop And move […]
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor The January aeqai is full of reviews, as well as a few new regular columns and some essays. A lot of institutions and most commercial galleries hold their December or fall shows through the first few weeks of January, as the remains of the holidays (bills, in most cases) wend their […]