The September ÆQAI has just posted. We apologize that it’s a couple of days late, but we had a lot of writers out of town, a very sick webmaster, and I moved in the middle of the last week of September. But we think that it’s an exceptional issue, and hope that you, too, find it to be. And next month will be devoted both to FotoFocus and to Mural Month; October will see a lot of photography shows, as well as a focus on murals, public art, and the issues raised by urban planning, which is unfolding virtually daily before our eyes. Rarely in my lifetime has Cincinnati shown so much development, hope, optimism. Our main concern for the arts remains funding, or the lack thereof.
ÆQAI would like officially to welcome Cameron Kitchin, the new Director of the art museum, to Cincinnati and to his new job. ÆQAI will be interviewing him for our November issue, but it’s already clear that he has a great passion for education and community outreach, is outgoing and friendly, as well as very smart.
We also welcome several new writers this month, including veteran contemporary arts maven Stacy Sims, whose review of a new show at the 21c Hotel is our lead review this month. Sue Ann Painter joins us as our specialist on architecture; renovation, conservation and preservation/urban reuse/planning issues, her column this month is on the transformation of the old Bartlett Building downtown into a new hotel and restaurant. (We also note with great sadness the death of Bill Friedlander, the longtime President of The Bartlett Company and one our our region’s most generous philanthropists.)
Katie Dreyer is also new to ÆQAI, and she gives us two articles this month, one a review of the Muth exhibition/performance at the CAC, in which she was a participant, so she offers a first person account of the performance and what it was like to participate in it. Dreyer also was in L.A. recently, and gives us good insights into a couple of shows at LACMA, particularly the work of light artist James Turrell.
Karen Chambers takes several perspectives on the work of Radha, the first artist in residence at The Brazee St. studios, where Radha (Lakshmi) integrates glass into her work for the first time. Emil Robinson returns with a very smart review of the work of Cody Cottingham at the Richard Butz Gallery in OTR. Robinson’s review and Sims’ review are virtual models of what art criticism is/can be. Hannah Loew writes her third review for ÆQAI, this time on the show at CAC which is part of FotoFocus (the CAC is hopping with programming, events, lectures, symposia). And Fran Watson , one of ÆQAI’s printmaking specialists, among other things, returns with a review of Woods’ almost ghoulish work at Clay Street Press, which she much admires technically and in content. Keith Banner offers a splendid analysis of the American Gothic exhibition at the art museum here.
Jonathan Kamholtz interviewed both Kevin Moore, the NYC-based Curator of FotoFocus, along with Mary Ellen Goetke, the Director of same, which we offer as an introduction to FotoFocus, and helps us understand its underlying themes and hypotheses. Next month, Kamholtz will offer his profile of Assistant Curator of Photography at the art museum, Brian Sholis. Robert Wallace went to see an exhibition on Ash Street in Northern Kentucky, curated by the outstanding Mary Heider, featuring works by six Northern Kentucky artists. These shows are targeted towards art collectors, and after each opens, they are open by appointment only. The current show features work by artists Kevin Muente, Robert Anderson, and Robert Fry, among others.
Saad Ghosn returns with his monthly column “Art for a Better World”, while Laura Hobson offers a profile of area painter Donna Talerico, whose scenes of France are filled with both joy, wit, and painterly skills, and whose abstract paintings are new (she also paints landscapes). Jane Durrell offers some thoughts, invented and real, about a trip to Mantua, Italy she took a few years ago, and Cynthia Kukla’s review of the Magritte show at The Art Institute of Chicago is as fine a piece of criticism as you’re likely to read anywhere. Matt Metzger reviews a show of paintings by Christopher Le Brun at a New York Gallery in Chelsea, and it’s also splendid and smart. ÆQAI will continue to review shows in other cities as our writers travel, and sometimes when they don’t, as the demand for our coverage has become international in scope (we just got our first press release from Milan yesterday).
My own column welcomes the new art season and its plethora of exhibitions, lectures, video screenings and all sorts of adjunct programming. I also offer two book reviews this month.
Next month will be a big issue for us, but in the meantime, the Sept ember issue of ÆQAI reflects the high quality of exhibitions in a city that increasingly looks very adult and more and more sophisticated.
–Daniel Brown, Editor
The September ÆQAI has just posted. We apologize that it’s a couple of days late, but we had a lot of writers out of town, a very sick webmaster, and I moved in the middle of the last week of September. But we think that it’s an exceptional issue, and hope that you, too, find it to be. And next month will be devoted both to FotoFocus and to
Mural Month; October will see a lot of photography shows, as well as a focus on murals, public art, and the issues raised by urban planning, which is unfolding virtually daily before our eyes. Rarely in my lifetime has Cincinnati shown so much development, hope, optimism. Our main concern for the arts remains funding, or the lack thereof.
ÆQAI would like officially to welcome Cameron Kitchin, the new Director of the art museum, to Cincinnati and to his new job. ÆQAI will be interviewing him for our November issue, but it’s already clear that he has a great passion for education and community outreach, is outgoing and friendly, as well as very smart.
We also welcome several new writers this month, including veteran contemporary arts maven Stacy Sims, whose review of a new show at the 21c Hotel is our lead review this month. Sue Ann Painter joins us as our specialist on architecture; renovation, conservation and preservation/urban reuse/planning issues, her column this month is on the transformation of the old Bartlett Building downtown into a new hotel and restaurant. (We also note with great sadness the death of Bill
Friedlander, the longtime President of The Bartlett Company and one our our region’s most generous philanthropists.)
Katie Dreyer is also new to ÆQAI, and she gives us two articles this month, one a review of the Muth exhibition/performance at the CAC, in which she was a participant, so she offers a first person account of the performance and what it was like to participate in it. Dreyer also was in L.A. recently, and gives us good insights into a couple of shows at LACMA, particularly the work of light artist James Turrell.
Karen Chambers takes several perspectives on the work of Radha, the first artist in residence at The Brazee St. studios, where Radha (Lakshmi) integrates glass into her work for the first time. Emil Robinson returns with a very smart review of the work of Cody Cottingham at the Richard Butz Gallery in OTR. Robinson’s review and Sims’ review are virtual models of what art criticism is/can be. Hannah Loew writes her third review for ÆQAI, this time on the show at CAC which is part of FotoFocus (the CAC is hopping with programming, events, lectures, symposia). And Fran
Watson , one of ÆQAI’s printmaking specialists, among other things, returns with a review of Woods’ almost ghoulish work at Clay Street Press, which she much admires technically and in content. Keith Banner offers a splendid analysis of the American Gothic exhibition at the art museum here.
Jonathan Kamholtz interviewed both Kevin Moore, the NYC-based Curator of FotoFocus, along with Mary Ellen Goetke, the Director of same, which we offer as an introduction to FotoFocus, and helps us understand its underlying themes and hypotheses. Next month, Kamholtz will offer his profile of Assistant Curator of Photography at the art museum, Brian Sholis. Robert Wallace went to see an exhibition on Ash Street in Northern Kentucky, curated by the outstanding Mary Heider, featuring works by six Northern Kentucky artists. These shows are targeted towards art collectors, and after each opens, they are open by appointment only. The current show features work by artists Kevin Muente, Robert Anderson, and Robert Fry, among others.
Saad Ghosn returns with his monthly column “Art for a Better World”, while Laura Hobson offers a profile of area painter Donna Talerico, whose scenes of France are filled with both joy, wit, and painterly skills, and whose abstract paintings are new (she also paints landscapes). Jane Durrell offers some thoughts, invented and real, about a trip to Mantua, Italy she took a few years ago, and Cynthia Kukla’s review of the Magritte show at The Art Institute of Chicago is as fine a piece of criticism as you’re likely to read anywhere. Matt Metzger reviews a show of paintings by Christopher Le Brun at a New York Gallery in Chelsea, and it’s also splendid and smart. ÆQAI will continue to review shows in other cities as our writers travel, and sometimes when they don’t, as the demand for our coverage has become international in scope (we just got our first press release from Milan yesterday).
My own column welcomes the new art season and its plethora of exhibitions, lectures, video screenings and all sorts of adjunct programming. I also offer two book reviews this month.
Next month will be a big issue for us, but in the meantime, the Sept ember issue of ÆQAI reflects the high quality of exhibitions in a city that increasingly looks very adult and more and more sophisticated.
–Daniel Brown, Editor