Nearly eighty articles originally published between 2010 and 2011 have now been recovered and are available through The Annex Updated.
These first texts mark the beginning of a larger undertaking: the recovery of the archive of aeqai.com, a publication that, between 2010 and 2019, brought together valuable writing on art, artists, exhibitions, and the cultural history of Cincinnati.
Final-Friday CAC @ 21c pairs a hotel gallery visit with CAC exhibitions in one free guided hour Cincy June 26 at 5:30p.
CAM's Pride night brings music, art making and free late-hour access to Eden Park on June 26 for Art After Dark in Ohio.
Thursday Art Play gives young children a hands-on CAC session tied to Homespun, with yoga and art making on July 9 2026.
Ayana Ross presents seven figural paintings at the Taft Museum as the 2026 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence.
Rites of Passage spotlights nine emerging artists at Manifest, opening July 10 with student work from eight U.S. states.
Although I am an avowed admirer of her solo work and have known her for nearly twenty-five years, I do not remember ever having spoken in person with Liudmila Velasco. About her work, about the weather, about how unbearable this or that artist can become. When I left the island, Liudmila was already practically an institution within Cuban women’s photography...
When we first came across Tim Harrier’s Shaman Spirit Guides, we dismissed them without mercy as the product of artificial intelligence. The mud-covered faces, the animals emerging from the background, and an unbroken frontal force produced, almost at once, a malignant suspicion. Suspicion ran far ahead of the work. And we are right to suspect almost everything in life. This series, no...
If you go to the Cincinnati Art Museum this summer you will see artwork from the contemporary art collection of Hollywood producer Douglas S. Cramer in two separate exhibition areas: one just upon passing the entrance foyer, where the Museum often houses small-scale teasers for future or current exhibitions; and the other in the First Floor changing exhibition hall, just across from the Terrace Café. Although the two are very...
Æqai is asking a variety of area artists to select one work of art from the permanent collection of either the Cincinnati Art Museum or the Taft Museum of Art, and tell our readers why it is important to him or her. Cole Carothers, a well known, and well respected Cincinnati painter, begins our series with his analysis of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Gerhard Richter’s Abstract Painting. We...
(The following interview took place Sunday, June 14, 2011 in U-turn’s gallery in Brighton. Attending were the five organizers of U-turn, in alphabetical order: Molly Donnermeyer, Matt Morris, Patricia Murphy, Zach Rawe and Eric Ruschman. All are graduates of the Art Academy of Cincinnati. For the sake of brevity, this article offers excerpts from the conversation. )
There is a book. Before the exhibition, before the charcoal drawings spread across the galleries of the Contemporary Arts Center, before the viewer crosses the blue thresholds into the dreamworld of Freeman Little...
A few months ago I wondered in these pages what Macron was getting out of lending the Bayeux Tapestry to the English. Forty thousand French citizens signed a petition to block it, citing textile fragility and, I suspect, a touch of cross-Channel rancour as well. The other question remained: what would the British Museum get out of it.
Now and again, chance weaves a concurrence of circumstances that places us before a window opening onto the past. The opportunity to converse, undistracted, with the Austrian artist Stylianos Schicho was a privilege, since what most interests me in art are the sinews that bind it to whoever produces it.
Corporate AI money has turned a Manhattan congressional primary into a test site for the industry's political future. According to The Verge, super PACs tied to AI interests have spent about $27.83 million around the NY-12 race, much of it connected to state Assemblyman Alex Bores, who helped pass an AI safety law in New York. Some money has come from safety-aligned groups linked to Anthropic supporters. Other money has come from anti-regulation or rival tech interests. A crypto billionaire connected to Ripple has also entered the fight. The candidate himself did not set out to make AI safety the center of the campaign, but outside money has made the seat into a proxy contest.
The useful fact is the scale. AI companies are trying to shape the political field before most voters have a clear language for the policy fight. Super PACs cannot coordinate with campaigns, but they can buy ads, produce content, define enemies, and make a local race feel like a national referendum. Residents may still be thinking about rent, transit, Israel, Trump, or the direction of the Democratic Party. The industry is thinking about future committee votes, liability rules, model restrictions, data centers, and who will be friendly when regulation reaches Congress. The ballot remains local. The invoice already belongs to the AI economy.
Meta's Oversight Board has ordered Instagram to remove a reportedly AI-generated sexualized video impersonating a woman who is not a public figure. The eight-second post was flagged by Meta's automated systems, reported by two users, and appealed by one of them, but it remained online. Meta later argued that it lacked a clear signal that the woman depicted was real or that she had not consented, partly because she had not reported the post herself. The Board rejected that standard. It said the content violated Meta's rules on non-consensual intimate imagery and recommended that AI-generated sexualized impersonation of real people be treated as non-consensual by default.
The decision moves the burden away from the target of the abuse. A person whose face or body has been simulated may learn about the post after copies have traveled through accounts, messages, screenshots, and search results. Requiring that person to prove harm first gives the platform time while the image keeps circulating. The Board wants Meta to let trusted friends or family report on someone's behalf and to create a separate reporting category for AI-generated sexualized impersonation. A synthetic body can still damage a real person, and the first useful response is removal before the victim is forced to become the evidence clerk for her own violation.
AI coding tools are making it easy for people to build apps before they understand what those apps can expose. The latest concern is vibe coding, the practice of describing a product in natural language and letting an AI system write much of the code. That can help a student, worker, founder, or hobbyist build useful software in hours. It can also put a public database, a customer record, a medical note, a private message, or a payment field online without the builder recognizing the risk. Recent examples include hidden SQL injection flaws, production databases left open, and thousands of public apps with weak or missing authentication.
The social change is simple. Software creation is no longer limited to people trained to think about failure. That is good for experimentation, but it moves responsibility faster than knowledge. A private tool becomes a public service the moment it stores someone else's data or runs in the cloud. Security cannot remain an expert ritual added after launch. The person who asks a model to build an app must also ask what the app stores, who can enter, what happens if it leaks, and whether a human needs to review it before strangers use it.
