“Sight of Hand” at Cincinnati Art Galleries
Cincinnati Art Galleries on East 6th street is presenting the contrasting work of two Cincinnati artists. Leslie Shiels invites you to enjoy her animated brushwork in a new series of paintings featuring the skull. Historically speaking, artistic statements featuring human brain depositories are construed as commentary on inevitable destiny of mankind and human fallacy. Shiels’ […]
Fashion and Technology – Part I
With early hints of fall being seen around the city, these next few months are an especially exciting time for the Cincinnati Art Museum and its fashion-loving community. On October 13, the museum and its Chief Curator and Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles Cynthia Amnéus will unveil Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion, an exhibition […]
Two Cathedrals
Two cathedrals have recently arisen in the Over-the-Rhine area of Cincinnati’s urban basin, one a renovation of an historic brewery, the other a fountain complex in the center of the newly redesigned and constructed Washington Park, across from Music Hall, the chief landmark of the neighborhood, which has also been renovated and restored in a major […]
Wooden Hill, Home and Garden Shop, in Westwood
Wooden Hill, 3036 Harrison Ave., is a new home and garden shop in Westwood. Owned by Amanda Hogan Carlisle and her husband Kevin Carlisle, the store features all local – TriState – merchandise. The couple purchased the store on the corner of Harrison and Montana in the Ruehlmann Building. Hogan Carlisle carries cards, paintings, collages, […]
Two New Galleries Open: 124 W. Pike St. and Caza
Named after its street location, a new gallery called 124 W. Pike St. opened September 15 in Covington in Duveneck Square, listed as an Historic District by the National Register. Curated by long-time artist and gallerist Suzanna Terrill, the gallery currently features abstract paintings by Barbara Mayerson, a modern artist originally from Dayton, with work […]
Society of Professional Journalists, Cleveland, Cincinnati and Columbus chapters
Laura A. Hobson, owner, Hobson Mosaic, received a first place award for best feature writing in the freelance category for a story about the Civic Garden Center in Aeqai. Hobson also received a best feature writing second place for her work in Hyde Park Living.
Mathias Enard’s “Compass”
Compass, a long and erudite novel by Mathias Enard, is the surprise novel of the summer. Winner of the most prestigious French Prix Goncourt, named for the two Goncourt brothers who lived around the time of Proust, and known for their extreme aestheticism (and, alas, for their anti-Semitism) and magnificent taste in literature, Compass is […]
Tom Perrotta’s “Mrs. Fletcher”
Tom Perrotta is the most contemporary of American writers chronicling life in the American suburbs, a distinguished tradition in American fiction that probably starts with John O’Hara, runs through John Updike, and continues with and through Perrotta (this month’s review of Cynthia Osborne’s new novel Fall Tides runs parallel to Perrotta’s book; hers takes place […]
Gabriel Tallent’s “My Absolute Darling”
There’s been a huge amount of positive, excited build-up towards the publication of “My Absolute Darling”, a new novel by a new writer, Gabriel Tallent (who is aptly named). One often is concerned by marketing hype these days, as there’s so much of it, and the product rarely lives up to its advance billing. “My […]
Cynthia Hoskin’s “Fall’s Bright Flame”
Disclaimer: Cynthia Hoskin is a good friend of mine. I read the novel “Fall Tides” this summer, in galley form, and wrote a review for it, unsolicited, at that time. The novel’s now been published, and Ms. Hoskin has used my review as the Prologue to the novel. I saw no reason ,however, not to […]