Mothersbaugh Performance at Woodward
Walking into the Woodward Theater in OTR, the first person I noticed was Quinn. We had never met before, but judging by the swiftness of his steps and his frequent motion of hand to chin during the warm up I could tell that he had a lot to say. As it turned out, Quinn had […]
Suspended over the Abyss: Seeing Calvino at the Cincinnati Public Library
Stationed inside the Cincinnati Public Library’s downtown branch, in the International Fiction alcove, is an archipelago of funky institutional wooden tables topped with glass rectangular boxes. Inside the glass boxes are 55 illustrations by three artists depicting the cities Italo Calvino poetically maps in Invisible Cities, the shapely novel/epic-poem/dialogue that has an effortlessly epic quality […]
Beth Hertz, Ahead of Her Time: Visionary Abstract Painter
Abstraction has made an explosive return to the visual arts in the past five years or so, and every now and again, an artist who is relatively unknown will surface with work that’s astonishingly fine. Dayton-area based Beth Hertz is just such an artist. An acolyte of Stanton MacDonald-Wright and Morgan Russell, Hertz was fascinated […]
Cincinnati’s Cultural Building Boom
Downtown Cincinnati is experiencing the biggest cultural building boom since the 1880s. If planning capital projects for arts and education is an indication of confidence in the economy, it appears that we are moving out of the so-called “Great Recession.” Museums, theaters, and Downtown restaurants are bustling with popular performances at the Aronoff Center, which […]
Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
The Bois de Boulogne is a large Park on the outskirts of central Paris. It is a serene, green space with ponds and paths and playgrounds and now, an astounding Frank Gehry designed private museum. It was commissioned by Bernard Arnault, Chairman of LVMH, the luxury goods conglomerate and owner of Louis Vuitton to, in […]
“Fibers: The Next Dimension,” Kennedy Heights Arts Center, closes September 26, 2015
I had high hopes for “Fiber: The Next Dimension” at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center. The photograph of Amy Wallace’s Nature’s Vessel that accompanied the press release bolstered those hopes. I’d also seen guest curator, Carole Gary Staples’ 2013 “Vessels: All the Eyes Can Hold” at Kennedy Heights, and liked it a lot (see aeqai.com, […]
Under 30: A Showcase of Millennial Talent at C-LINK Gallery
As I drove to C-LINK Gallery, located at Brazee Street Studios in Oakley, Cincinnati, I realized I’d never actually been inside the building. I’d driven by it, once, while searching for an elusive community garden, and had noted the decaying Shepard Fairey paste-up on an exterior wall. The mural, installed in conjunction with Fairey’s twenty-five-year […]
Unknown Elements
Unknown Elements is this strange passage of time. Walking into the quaint exhibition space is as if walking into a long lost living room. Images of family members grace the walls, ranging from a war-time portrait of your heroic uncle to your mother’s failed attempt at documenting your annual vacation out West; from monochromatic flash […]
Unknown Elements
Unknown Elements is this strange passage of time. Walking into the quaint exhibition space is as if walking into a long lost living room. Images of family members grace the walls, ranging from a war-time portrait of your heroic uncle to your mother’s failed attempt at documenting your annual vacation out West; from monochromatic flash […]
America the Beautiful
The publishing of this AEQAI article couldn’t come at a better time as fashion month is officially in full swing with designers showcasing their Spring 2016 collections across the globe. It first begins in the United States with New York Fashion Week, and then migrates to London, Milan, and Paris. Generally speaking, as the […]