Harriet Beecher Stowe House: Visit the Past
The Harriet Beecher Stowe house is located at 2950 Gilbert Ave. in Walnut Hills. The 5,000 square-foot house was completed in 1833. It is an historic house museum and cultural site focused on Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The house itself reveals a rich history of 185 years of social activism and African-American history. […]
Takashi Murakami Takes His Octopus to the Bank
Incredibly, the Takashi Murakami exhibition officially broke the David Bowie attendance record of 193,000, making it the all-time highest attended exhibition in the Museum of Contemporary Art-Chicago’s 50-year history. Numerous prints Murakami had available for the MCA Museum Store were sold out, including an $11,000 print in an edition of 100. So the popular and commercial successes of TM […]
Visualizing Natural History: “Wild About Wildflowers,” Lloyd Library and Museum, September 9-November 18, 2017
Though the show is titled “Wild About Wildflowers,” the Lloyd’s current show is constrained in many ways. It is a truly small exhibit, taking up little more than a half dozen standing cases, though it is also an absorbing show: there was a guy who was there when I arrived still looking at things when […]
“Anima and Animus/Julia Oldham & Casey Riordan Millard,” Marta Hewett Gallery, through Nov. 11, 2017
You enter a different world when you walk into the Marta Hewett Gallery. The exhibition is “Anima and Animus/Julia Oldham & Casey Riordan Millard.” To navigate it, I needed to understand what anima and animus meant, yet another example of my spotty education. Gallerist Marta Hewett helped me there. In an October 21, 2017, email, Hewett wrote: Carl Jung […]
Manifest Gallery Artists in Residence
In case you haven’t noticed, figurative painting is alive and well and the absorbing interest of any number of young artists. Two such artists are recipients of the 2017/18 Manifest Artist Residency award and are currently established in their respective studios at the Cincinnati gallery. We talked with each of them for this issue of […]
“Land, Light, Lustre” Mary Woodworth, Andrea Knarr, and Didem Mert at the YWCA Women’s Art Gallery
The three artists in this elegantly mounted show at the YWCA Women’s Art Gallery produce powerful effects on a small scale. The visual appeal of their work results from the details they apply to each piece with meticulous care. However, the natural, at times rough-hewn, manner in which they approach color, shape, and texture gives […]
Mel Katz’ at The Museum of Northwest Art
The Museum of Northwest Art (MoNA) is showing a retrospective of Mel Katz’ work dating back to 1966. Concurrently at Russo Lee Gallery, more recent work by Katz is on display. The museum show includes a video and drawings that show traces of erasure, as well as more three-dimensional works, providing an avenue to understand […]
Artists of the Heartland: James R. Hopkins and Edna Boies Hopkins
The extensive works of James R. Hopkins and Edna Boies Hopkins are featured in their respective exhibitions in the Galleries of the Springfield Museum of Art. This is a unique opportunity to acquaint yourself with a husband and wife whose individual expressive works reverently reveal life in the American heartland. “Faces of the Heartland” […]
“The Zinzinnati of the Spectacle”. THE BLINK FESTIVAL. OCTOBER 12-15, 2017
“It is a playful analogy to the artist community since it implies the inevitable incorporation of the avant garde into mainstream culture. We creatives are the Aequi.” ?from the Aeqai “about-us” page. “All that once was directly lived has become mere representation.” Guy Debord, ”The Society of the Spectacle” “your golden hair Margareta your ashen […]
David Gerena’s History Of Graffiti Pt 1
David Gerena’s show, History Of Graffiti Pt 1, is displayed now at Cincinnati Art Underground in Cincinnati’s Over-the-Rhine neighborhood. It chronicles his early work in street art and graffiti through his current oil on canvas works in a style he terms figurative graffiti. Gerena, who grew up in the Bronx, is considered one of the pioneers […]