Wearable Art
Whenever discussions about the relationships between fashion and art occur, the conversation inevitably ends up around the question “Is fashion art?” Although it’s been answered previously on AEQAI, it bears repeating that yes, fashion is art. Fashion design is an art form like painting or sculpting with one major difference: Fashion generally is made to […]
Gagosian Gallery’s New Los Angeles Show Urges Us to Remember
While we pursue more information than we did in the past, we have become less apt to retain most of which we learn because of our ever-present access to the Internet. This is because most every word and image has been documented digitally and can be found online in what is now the world’s largest […]
Karen Heyl and Her Career in Sculpture
As early as kindergarten, Karen Heyl, now 66, knew she was going to be an artist. “When my art project was held up as an example in class,” Heyl said, “I knew I wanted to be an artist.” In the 1960’s, she married and had two daughters. “They saw me struggle as I was raising […]
Interview with Michael Solway, Director of the Carl Solway Gallery
The Carl Solway Gallery is an icon in the Cincinnati arts community. In 2010, Carl’s son Michael became director of the gallery after running the SolwayJones Gallery in Los Angeles for 10 years. Below is an excerpt from a recent interview with Michael Solway. It coincides with By This River, an exhibition he curated that […]
Maxwell’s Poetry Corner
Burnt Bridge I carefully burned the bridge aware of the river below. Warnings rang from the common folk declaring, “if your venture in this new city proves illegitimate and you must return to your place of old, your welcome will be diminished like ashes from the fire’s stoke.” In the unlikely event, I’ll build […]
Academy Street, by Mary Costello: A Perfect Novel
The publishing world’s still living in an era when their summer offerings are anachonistically known as ‘beach reading’, referring back, quaintly, to a time when people took the summer off for vacations (many Boards of Trustees of arts organizations also don’t meet in the summer, for the same reason: it was once assumed that ‘everyone’ […]
The Green Road, by Anne Enright
The Green Road, by Anne Enright, is another excellent summer release, written by the outstanding Irish novelist Anne Enright, whose earlier novel, The Gathering, won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for fiction. Yes, a plethora of Irish novelists are about, and their famous ‘gift for gab’ is manifest all round (Colm Toibin may well be […]
The Book of Aron, by Jim Shephard
The famous expression “Never Again!” was coined by Rabbi Meier Kehane, a Brooklyn-born rabbi who emigrated to Israel , and may be said to have caused no end of trouble for various Israeli governments, but the expression itself will live well beyond the man who coined it. Although specifically meant for Jews, the quote means […]
The Turner House, by Angela Flournoy
This debut novel by young African-American novelist Angela Flournoy is written in what first appears to be simple narrative prose style—and that’s a good thing, since the novel is about a family of two parents and thirteen children born to them, and takes place mostly in Detroit from right around World War II to the […]
Summer Issue of Aeqai Online
The summer issue of Aeqai has just posted; it’s our annual double issue, July and August, when the arts are a little slower. We think that in future summers , more and more activity will take place as the idea of ‘summer in the city’ takes off, and less and less people have vacations (it used to […]