Reflejos by Karla Batres Gilvin Thomas More College Eva G. Farris Art Gallery August 20- September 6, 2018
Set amidst the hustle and bustle of the back-to-school atmosphere at Thomas More College in suburban Northern Kentucky is a vibrant show of recent work
Fotofolio: Enrique Leal
“A selection of photogravures” Enrique’s statement: My work focuses on apparent and sub-visible phenomena made possible through experiments with materials, media, and technologies of production,
Fotofolio: Enrique Leal
“A selection of photogravures” Enrique’s statement: My work focuses on apparent and sub-visible phenomena made possible through experiments with materials, media, and technologies of production,
Margaret Rhein’s Papermaking Career
Hidden away in Westwood, a neighborhood in Cincinnati, is an eclectic house and bright studio of artist Margaret Rhein and her now-retired jeweler husband Stuart
Kevin T. Kelly at Alan Avery Art Company
Kevin T. Kelly has created a new body of paintings for this exhibition at Alan Avery Art Company in Atlanta, and they are his most
Michael Mergen: Epilogue to Mars
Michael Mergen lives, works, and raises his family in Farmville, Virginia, though his catalog of photographs evokes the ethos of a wanderer, moving freely across
donottellmewhereibelong: drawing and sculpture by Joan Tanner Curated by Julien Robson Cressman Center for Visual Arts / Hite Art Institute / Department of Fine Arts / University of Louisville
“A curiosity to engage contradiction…might be kindled from memories of listening to my father talk about the perils and challenges in practicing medicine…Disease. Malady. Disfigurement.
“Replace With Fine Art” at the Art Academy of Cincinnati
What is God? A Westernized ideal, for one, in the monotheistic sense. But, God can also be interpreted as an energy or a sustaining force.
Ottessa Moshfegh’s “My Year of Rest and Relaxation”
Ottessa Moshfegh has burst upon the literary scene mostly in the past 18 months, with, first, a book of short stories, and, now, her novel
Pat Barker’s “The Silence of The Girls”
Pat Barker, the English woman writer, is, at her best, one of the world’s greatest living novelists. She may be the finest novelist writing about
Gary Shteyngart’s “Lake Success”
Gary Shteyngart is usually one of the finest, most biting satirists in America. The Russian-born, US raised Shteyngart has both satirized the Russian Mafia in
Leo Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”
August is usually a slow month for me, and I’ve often read 19th century novels during the summers over the years, novels I didn’t read
Aeqai Annual Fall Benefit and Art Auction
The 11th Annual Aeqai Fall Benefit and Art Auction will be held on Thursday, September 20 from 5:30 pm to 8 pm at Cincinnati Art
July/August Issue of Aeqai Online
The July/August issue of aeqai has just posted. We do one combined summer issue every year, when things are a bit slower in the arts.
Storytelling Pencil: “Make Way for Ducklings: The Art of Robert McCloskey,” at the Cincinnati Art Museum, July 20-September 9, 2018
Any way you look at it, there was a lot going on in American culture in the 1940s and 1950s. There was a hot war
Last Battles: The Persistence of Vision at DAAP’s Meyers Gallery
Gallery exhibits often feature artists at a specific stage of their career, a period marked by consistent subjects or stylistic choices. Some shows take a
A Humane Touch in Product Placement
Over the last year, Thunder-Sky, Inc. has been probing visual culture vis-à-vis consumers, products, and marketing, as this year’s theme has revolved around “Product Placement,”
“Work/Surface: Matt Lynch and Curtis Goldstein” and “Winold Reiss: Studies for the Union Terminal Worker Murals,” Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, through August 26, 2018
Usually when the topic of manufacturing in the U.S. comes up, it is as a lament of jobs lost to automation or outsourcing. Two Ohio-based
“Work/Surface: Matt Lynch and Curtis Goldstein” and “Winold Reiss: Studies for the Union Terminal Worker Murals,” Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, through August 26, 2018
Usually when the topic of manufacturing in the U.S. comes up, it is as a lament of jobs lost to automation or outsourcing. Two Ohio-based
The Road to Iconicity: “Ansel Adams: A Photographer’s Evolution,” at the Taft Museum of Art, June 23-September 16, 2018
One way to see the goal of the Ansel Adams show at the Taft is that it traces the trajectory of Adams’s aesthetic and accomplishments
Traipsing Ballroom Halls
Carl Solway Gallery’s director Michael Solway has organized the first installation of video art and kinetic sculptures at Cincinnati’s newly and ornately restored Memorial Hall
Ivan Ivanov at the Eva Ferris Gallery at Thomas More College
One of this summer’s most impressive shows, paintings by Ivan Ivanov, was on display at the Eva Ferris Gallery at Thomas More College. Ivanov tackles
Textuality: Art Incorporating Text and Letterforms
For the most part, human beings are a verbal species. Since time before recorded history, people have utilized language, both written and spoken, to communicate
Benjamin Cook: History Abridged at Swanson Contemporary, Louisville, Kentucky August 15th – September 22nd
Currently situated within Swanson Contemporary are paintings and installations composed of paintings situated within murals that make up Benjamin Cook’s exhibition, History Abridged—they’re fun, they’re
Sophie von Hellermann Experiments with Cultures in her Painted "Petri Dishes"
Cleverly convoluting scientific and sociological meanings of the word “culture,” Sophie von Hellermann’s paintings portray clear disks brimming with mysterious vignettes in “Petri Dishes,” her
Lloyd Library Exhibition
The Lloyd Library, to my knowledge, is the first entity ever to use as exhibition title the key word broken into syllables, with accompanying accent.
Running With Freedom
If there’s one thing the Taft Museum of Art is known for, it’s the museum’s history. Home to the art archive of late and great
Dolan/Maxwell’s at the Seattle Art Fair
Dolan/Maxwell’s booth at the Seattle Art Fair was well laid out and well attended. Though they brought a multitude of prints, it was a sculpture
Virtuosity at Wash Park Art
Holly Spraul’s Wash Park Art gallery came alive with an art exhibition expanding upon the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s MusikArt auction of 5 violins by 5
Women of Strength at the YWCA
A purple figure faces away from me, her strong back standing at attention. One hand raised, shading her eyes as she looks on into a
Weaver’s Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Inc., A Fiber Arts Center, Offers Wide Variety of Hand Work
Many hands make light work. Read more about the Weaver’s Guild of Greater Cincinnati, Inc., a Fiber Arts Center, that is a hidden gem of
Direct Message Me
Ah, August. Quite the interesting time in the fashion world. After luxury designers have unveiled their Resort collections and before hitting the runways for Spring,
Julian Barnes’ “The Only Story
I’ve never quite been able to define why I find English novelists so compelling, so engaging, so smart, but I do. Three of the finest
Rebecca Makkai’s “The Great Believers”
I’d not encountered the writing of Rebecca Makkai, until her new novel “The Great Believers”, which is a rare novel dealing with the advent of
June Issue of Aeqai Online
The June issue of Aeqai has just posted. We offer a wide variety of reviews from our region and from other major American cities as
An Otherworldly Journey Through the Museum of Jurassic Technology
Los Angeles is home to so many eccentric museums that the city practically has its own ever-growing genre of weird museums with sundry specialized themes
Decay and Resilience: Andrew Borowiec, “From the Heartland,” at the Iris Book Cafe and Gallery
It’s an ordinary day in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania, about a dozen miles from Pittsburgh. Some leaves are turning yellow; there is a touch of fall
Chris Larson’s Entropy
Minnesota-based multi-media artist Chris Larson’s work “Function is Redundant” is displayed at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Art Center and runs until September 2, 2018. In this large
“Women to Watch – 2018” at the Riffe Gallery in Columbus
The Riffe Gallery’s “Women to Watch Ohio – 2018” exhibit highlights ten female Ohio artists working in metal. The show was inspired by the selection
Developing More than Nostalgia: “Analog Culture” and “Survivor’s Remorse” at Harvard Art Museums
The Harvard Art Museums and curator Jennifer Quick have pulled off a minor miracle with “Analog Culture,” an understated, poetic show of heart through a
Alison Crocetta’s Deconstructed Still Circus
Alison Crocetta, Associate Professor at The Ohio State University, spans sculpture, performance, and video art in her work. The Contemporary Arts Center’s exhibition “Circus of
Viscosity Series
Bookending the extensive career of Henri Matisse was his phenomenal series known as the cut-outs. Making their way to the art scene in the 1940s
“Atmosphera,” Kennedy Heights Art Center
I came disposed to like “Atmosphera” at the Kennedy Heights Art Center. I was looking for it to calm me down after a hellish drive
Artist Interview for Aeqai: Megan Bickel interviews Photographer, Bill Daniel
“In a sense it’s just ridiculously irresponsible to try to work as an artist.” —Bill Daniels If you were shuffling around the Portland neighborhood in
DAAP’s Annual Duct Tape Exhibition
DAAP’s annual Duct Tape Exhibition was thinking big this year, really big. The grassy area at the corner of Martin Luther King Jr. Drive and
Wired For Color – Cincinnati Art Galleries
‘Wired For Color’ is on display now at Cincinnati Art Galleries. It features works by Wolfgang Ritschel and Eddie Eckenrode. Wolfgang Ritschel was an artist
“Spring Creations”, Landscapes at Eisele Gallery
Eisele Gallery welcomed warmer weather with “Spring Creations,” featuring three regional representational artists whose paintings blended well in an exhibition on view May 11 through
SOS ART and “For A Better World 2018”
What does a better world look like? In an era of pompous personalities in power and borders erected between our shared humanity, this is a
Fotofolio: Robert Dash
“Micro Climate Change” Robert’s statement: Humans are busy going about our lives, while nature is in shock from the choices that we make. This series
ART ACADEMY OF CINCINNATI
An institution that’s been in existence for a century and a half must be doing something right, including response to changing times. The Art Academy