“Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel,” National Gallery of Art (NGA), through January 18, 2018
The title of the National Gallery of Art’s exhibition “Posing for the Camera” is a bit of a misnomer since quite a number of the 70-some photographs feature people caught unawares, not posing. But I don’t want to quibble over nomenclature, especially since several of my favorite photos are anything but posed. When an image […]
Joyce Garner, cul-de-sac at Garner Narrative Contemporary Fine Art Louisville, Kentucky
Garner Narrative currently has a group of paintings by the gallery’s owner, Joyce Garner. Garner’s paintings about family, currently installed at Garner Narrative in Louisville Kentucky until December 29th, couldn’t come at a more seasonally appropriate time. Walking into Garner Narrative the viewer is met with the gigantic six yard wide loose stretched canvas, yellow […]
Math is Hard, and Beautiful (In Context): The Concinnitas Portfolio at Krakow Witkin Gallery
Mathematicians generally agree that beauty does exist in the structural beauty of theorems and proofs, even if most of the time it is largely visible only to mathematicians themselves. —Enrico Bombieri, “The Ree Group Formula” I have complex feelings about math, none of which are as complex as math itself. I don’t want to be […]
Banz Studios – A New Addition to the Gallery Scene in Greater Cincinnati
Banz Studios, another new art gallery, has joined a group of other galleries recently opened in Cincinnati. Owner and art consultant Allison Banzhaf opened her gallery at 317 W. Fourth St. in October 2017 after obtaining a three-year lease in May. The gallery took hours of painting and upgrading to bring it up to a […]
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s “A Kind of Freedom”
Margaret Wilkerson Sexton’s debut novel, ” A Kind of Freedom”, is powerful, sensitive, all too human. The author follows three generations of an African-American family living in New Orleans; the first generation is part of what was once described as a “high yellow” elite in that city, describing the light skin tones preferred by this […]
Eleanor Hender’s “Ten Thousand Saints”
Eleanor Henderson’s debut novel, “Ten Thousand Saints”, was one of the best novels of about three years ago. Henderson has an amazing talent, first and foremost, as a storytelling, at which she truly excels. She’s returned with her second triumph, “The Twelve-Mile Straight”, a long but hugely compelling novel about life in Cotton County, Georgia, […]