The archaeology of Troy, in what is now Turkey, has captured the human imagination for nearly a century and a half. In l988 archaeologists from the University of Cincinnati and the University of Tübingen, Germany, began new excavations with the intent of examining all phases of habitation from the Bronze Age through the Byzantine period.
We are pleased to announce that Matt Distel, Executive Director of Visionaries + Voices, will serve as Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum. He is already at work curating an exhibition that will open in May titled, Cincinnati Everyday. Please see the press release for more details.
SOS ART 2013 invites Greater Cincinnati artists working in visual art, poetry, music, film and other forms of expression to participate in its annual event for peace and justice. The exhibition will take place at the Art Academy of Cincinnati from May 31 to June 9, 2013. The application deadline is May 13.
Walking into the gallery, I search for color, vivid color amid the white walls. I have come once again to visit Richard Diebenkorn’s work and to be amazed by his talent. Once again I am reminded why this painting changed the way I look at art. Several years ago, when I was an art student, my professor of painting asked if I was familiar with Diebenkorn. She said something in my painting had reminded her of his work.
The work of L. A. artist Hadley Holliday is nothing if not complicated although that might not be immediately apparent as her colorful stained canvas paintings are delightful.
Camille Paglia is herself a cultural necessity, an icon of exceptional brilliance, a no-nonsense analyst of Western culture and ideas of the first rank. She trucks no theoretical hijinks, refuses labels, isn’t associated with any particular school of thought or “ism” or academic elitism or snobbery,...
As you walk into the space where Greg Storer’s paintings are hanging, to your left are two small pictures of cars parked at a drive-in, their screens towering above mostly empty landscapes. One painting features a scene from The Godfather (1972) (“And That Day May Never Come”), and the other shows the Soggy Mountain Boys singing and recording in the radio studio of O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000).
Very few art exhibits simply happen. They started someplace, out of great and not so great thoughts, from the hearts and minds of creative individuals, and in some cases, from a combination of several kinds of creativity. “domino02” at AEC in Covington falls into that last category from artists working with engineers, both concerned for the state of water in this modern age, and determined to be involved with its conservation.
Editor’s Note: Aeqai has asked Susan Amis, a free-lance writer and art enthusiast in Cincinnati, to write about art that she sees and which interests her in her travels around town and other places she finds herself.
