Manifest is an internationally recognized Cincinnati-based non-profit organization founded in 2004 by students and professors dedicated to creating high quality experiences of visual art through exhibition, publication, artist-support, and education.
An enormously useful and popular invention, the daguerreotype was at once a science and an art, a documentary tool and an emblem of emotion and memory. Aspinwall will discuss the aesthetics of this earliest form of photography, revealing the surprising variety of subjects recorded. Aspinwall has worked with the Hallmark Photographic Collection at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art since 1999.
Today, conversations about art in Louisville, Kentucky, often center on the East Market Street district, affectionately dubbed NuLu (short for “New Louisville”). NuLu’s rise as an arts district began with visionary investors like Barbara Smith in the late 1980s, buying up buildings the gritty, run down section of downtown.
NYC based photographer Raymond Adams’ new (and first book) AMERICA: WITNESSED is a bibliophiles’ dream—a perfectly designed book. Adams’ photographs are lyrical and narrative in nature, all shot in his home base of NYC and vicinity and on a U.S.A. cross-country trip in his Odyssean quest for home and, explanation of “what America means?”
From my window: buzzinghighway traffic slows as the sunlowers. Head lights and break lightssuck out the last rays, proudlydisplaying their eminence along the road.The screaming red streaks blendwith submissive yellow ones like an operasingers vibrato. Their passinghollows out the nightas would the ocean’s pull a crab hole;a momentary draw, then refillingwith the next wave.
Ai Weiwei’s “According to What?” (currently at the Indianapolis Museum of Art through July 17, 2013) is pure perfection. An Apple-Store consumerist clarity defines and propels the whole enterprise, a clean, polished fetishism that somehow becomes spiritual in its carefulness.
Rob Jefferson was born in 1970 on a naval base in Memphis, Tennessee, and has lived in Cincinnati ever since. A graduate of the Art Academy of Cincinnati with a BFA degree in painting and drawing (1992), his work has been featured in various publications including 100 Midwest Artists, New American Paintings and Playboy Magazine.
“Photographic Wonders,” a selection of daguerreotypes culled from the extraordinary collection put together by Hallmark and then given in 2005 to Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, is the real deal.
In the first week of June, a gaggle of travelers from the Cincinnati Park Board and Cincinnati Parks Foundation flew to Munich for a special event that neatly closed a circle – a promise made six years ago, 20 feet up in the air in Mt. Airy Forest. As an artist who has coordinated exchanges and supported parks projects for the past 15 years, I happily accompanied them.
