Dayton Visual Arts Center: A Trip to A Small Contemporary Arts Center
Take an hour-long ride to Dayton from Cincinnati and discover the Dayton Visual Arts Center, a proponent of contemporary art, in a small building on
A Remembrance of Someone I’ll Never Forget: Jackie Demaline
When I moved into a condo on the river in Covington in 2007, I heard that my neighbor across the hall was the drama critic
Jackie Demaline: In Memoriam
Jackie Demaline, long The Enquirer’s theater critic, and truly a force field of energy, died very recently. She’d been a friend of mine and colleague
Carter’s “Metafilm” and the Affect of Sociological Virulence
Professor Christopher Carter’s intermedia/new media theory text “Metafilm: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema” proverbially instrumentalizes the paradoxical rhetoric of visual culture by analyzing films that
Richard Power’s “The Overstory”
“The Overstory”, this year’s National Book Award winner by Richard Powers, may be the finest novel of 2018 so far (though Rachel Kushner’s “The Mars
Rachel Kushner’s “The Mars Room”
The preposterously talented Rachel Kushner, who I consider to be America’s finest young writer, has returned with her astonishingly fine new novel “The Mars Room”.
April/May Issue of Aeqai Online
The April/May Aeqai has just posted. We’ve combined these two issues due to a recent move on my part, with all the attendant chaos moves
Divinity Affirmations – Light, Luminescence, and Liminal Spaces with Tom Bacher
Tom Bacher’s Per-40ming Trans-4-ming Phos-4-s-cent Paintings, which is showing at the Weston Art Gallery until June 10, 2018, displays a continuation of Bacher’s hyperrealist
Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors” (2012) at Cincinnati Art Museum
Contemporary art has a number of interpretive frameworks, attempts to historicize the present moment that both distinguish it from what came before and draw genealogical
“Twisted/Patrick Dougherty Entwined at the Taft,” Taft Museum of Art
Something odd happened on the front lawn of The Taft Museum of Art. The world-renowned sculptor Patrick Dougherty, with the help of 150 volunteers, twisted
Skin Trade: “Cagnacci: Painting Beauty and Death,” Cincinnati Art Museum, March 23-July 22, 2018
You can be forgiven if you’d never heard of Guido Cagnacci before going to see the tiny but brilliant exhibit of three of his
Kinship Threads: Matt and Paul Coors at the Clay Street Press Gallery
Matt and Paul Coors founded the Publico Gallery in Over-the-Rhine in 2003 and ran the operation until it closed in 2008. Ten years later, the
What Makes a Life – Virtual Circulation and Digital Storytelling
Filmmaker and video/conceptual artist C. Jacqueline Wood’s show What Makes a Life at the Weston Art Gallery from May 4 – June 10, 2018
Hats, Heels, and Hieroglyphs: “Saul Steinberg’s ‘Mural of Cincinnati’ and “Saul Steinberg’s Prints, 1948-1996” Cincinnati Art Museum, February 16 on, and Solway Gallery, April 20-July 15, 2018
Up, then down. Up, then down. And now, up again. Saul Steinberg’s “Mural of Cincinnati,” having adorned the walls of the Terrace Plaza Hotel’s Skyline
“Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China,” Cincinnati Art Museum. Open through August 12, 2018
In the West, Asian art is given short shrift in intro to art history texts. H. W. Janson’s History of Artconsigned the arts of
Fotofolio – Zhao Rong-Sheng
I met Zhao in Houston this past March at FotoFest. Here are selected photos from his Swan Series and Works of the King. Zhao’s resume:
Holding hands with strangers, a review of In Many Hands by Kate McIntosh
I am sitting at the center of a banquet table facing a black wall. The white cloth in front of me is clean and
“Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism” at the JB Speed Museum
The Speed Museum exhibition” Women Artists in the Age of Impressionism” brings together over 80 paintings by 37 different female artists. Their achievement becomes more
Found and Unfound Pre-Existing Conditions
Social workers Keith Banner and Bill Ross created Visionaries + Voices for the artists Paul Rowland, Richard Brown, Antonio Adams, and Raymond Thunder-Sky. Bill and
Sexodus XXX Machina: “More Sweetly Play the Dance” by William Kentridge (A Seven Channel Panoramic Video/ Audio Installation). Cincinnati Art Museum April 26, 2017 – May 20, 2018
A Video Tableau Vivant. (On the I’mpossibility of I’mmortality) “I’m interested in a political art, that is to say an art of ambiguity, contradiction,
Out of the Dark, Kurt Grannan at Wash Park Art Gallery
The impression that stays with you after viewing Kurt Grannan’s show at Wash Park Art is of figures with white faces, holding poses and
Kevin Muente’s Forgotten Land
Kevin Muente’s show “Forgotten Land” is currently up at Marta Hewett Gallery, located in Cincinnati’s Pendleton neighborhood. He uses figures within these landscapes to create
Lidzie Alvisa and Donis Llago Imagine Transparency at A R E A
Paired with an image of the White House on a brochure, “Transparent?” is a pointed question. And, in 2018, it can take as little as
Karen Margolis' "Garden of Mutei" at Garis & Hahn, Los Angeles
Having pervaded Western societies for centuries, the archetype of huge and showy artworks seems to have reached a pinnacle in our era where large and
Steve Jensen at Abmeyer + Wood
Steve Jensen is a prominent and prolific artist on the Seattle scene, with public sculptures from Washington to Florida and China. His work is in
Liz Zorn at 124 West Pike Street, Covington
Liz Zorn likes a square canvas. Not always, of course, but more often than many artists, she confines her compositions to a canvas measuring the
KMAC Couture: Art Walks the Runway: An Interview with designers Liz Richter and Lilly Kass
I was fortunate enough to be asked by Mentor Coordinator, Melanie Miller (Hyland Glass, Hyland Gallery) to participate as an artist mentor for 2018 KMAC
Second Glances
How many times do we look at something quickly and make a snap judgment about it? In what is often a one-second glance, we assess
Cincinnati Art Club: A Hidden Gem
Drive through Mt. Adams and find Parkside Place, next to Eden Park. At the bottom of the hill at 1021 Parkside Place is the Cincinnati
Meera Rastogi: Art Therapy and the Therapeutic Benefits of Making Art
“Art should be something that liberates your soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further.” –Keith Haring Over the course of this past
Jon McGregor’s “Reservoir 13”
Jon McGregor’s new novel “Reservoir 13″ contains some of the finest writing in recent contemporary fiction. Its basic plot is relatively simple: in a small
March Issue of Aeqai Online
The art scene around the country is blossoming just as Nature provides her own new life and growth in this time of renewal, regeneration and
“Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection,” Taft Museum of Art, through May 27, 2018.
Fashion is a fickle lover, and it jilted Louis Comfort Tiffany at the end of his career in the 1930s. He had been the American
Eastside Processional: "Not to Scale" at the Carnegie
From March 2 through April 29, 2018, the Carnegie in Covington, Kentucky is spotlighting an emphatically local meditation on matters of national concern. The museum’s
An Interrogation of Abstract Markings: Hans Hartung’s Recent Survey at Perrotin, New York
Perrotin’s opening exhibition in New York for 2018, Hans Hartung: A Constant Storm. Works from 1922 to 1989, featured a retrospective assessment of one of
Stephen Towns Quilts at The Baltimore Museum of Ar
Two of the Stephen Towns’ gorgeous quilt pieces hang in an abbreviated hallway of the Baltimore Museum of Art. Rumination and Reckoning, the Baltimore artist’s
Historical Materialism and Survey: Malcolm Cochran’s History Lessons
The Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center features three works by American installation artist Malcolm Cochran: History Lessons (2011), Requiem (2018), and Washing Feet
Our Internets, Our Selves: Looking Beyond Branding in Boston’s “Art + Tech”
If I’m being cyncial, Boston’s inferiority complex as a“top U.S. innovation city” is why we have a city-wide partnership between 14 museums and galleries called
The Pull of Exquisite Genius: Michelangelo at the Met
“Five hundred years seem to melt away in looking at his art.”1 Over and over again, critics in the United States and elsewhere referred to
Critical Mass II // Critical Discourse and Engagement in Kentucky
Critical Mass II was the second in a series of panel discussions around various urban centers within Kentucky. This particular installment was arranged by the
Matthew Metzger: Traversing the Meditative and Experiential
Matthew Metzger’s contemporary interpretations of Chinese painting and its intentions allocate space and dimensionality through shifting and changing perspectives, which qualitatively empower the young
Karen Hochman Brown Shows Us the Beauty of Math in “Botanic Geometry”
“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but
As in the Mirror: Self-Portraits by Ellina Chetverikova at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center
In her thought-provoking show at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center Ellina Chetverikova, who immigrated to the United States from Ukraine to continue her study of
Conversation on Another Ground
Not Gallery is an artist-run space in East Austin presided over by Alex Diamond. since 2014. The gallery is located in a warehouse industrial garage,
Celebrating the Afterlife With Ed Moses Amid Ghanaian Fantasy Coffins
On January 6 in Los Angeles, Ernie Wolfe Gallery opened a show titled “Eddie M and the FAVs,” featuring Ed Moses’ paintings alongside elaborate Ghanaian
Marcos Novak: Transarchitecture and Traversing Augmented Reality
Truly a multifaceted artist whose new media processes and technologies wed organic forms with intermedia landscapes, artist Marcos Novak, born in 1957 in Caracas,
Dancing while the house burns down: “Jack &” a performance
Jack & centers around the experience of one man. Jack. His story is unique. He is a baker working the night shift at an industrial
Letter from Lebanon: “The Portrait as It Speaks”
“The face is a living presence; it is expression… The face speaks,” writes the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas in his book Totality and Infinity. The
FIRST JUDGMENT
Exhibition by Fukui formative abstract artist Tatsuya Tatsuta at National Art Center Tokyo. New Artist Unit, February 4-19, 2018. “You can’t go neither forwards
'Hassard & Steele: Concrete Dreams" at the Richmond (Indiana) Art Museum
“Geometry is like music,” artist Marlene Steele recently told a group of high school students, gathered around an exhibition of her work at the Richmond