Paper had its beginnings sometime around AD 105 in China and has become a staple in many facets of our lives. But if you can’t look beyond paper’s basic uses such as a writing surface, advertisement materials, product packaging, or books, then you’re blinding yourself to the beauty of paper as an artistic medium.
In the freakishly astute situation comedy Enlightened (Sunday nights at 9:30 pm on HBO), tall and stately Laura Dern plays Amy Jellicoe, a great big loser beyond compare. Amy’s whole life has gone into a black hole she seems hell-bent on reinventing as a “transition,” but she can’t get anything right, except the eagerness to do something “positive.”
Early in the new year, a young novelist’s new , or sometimes first, book is published and surprises me with its quality; last year, it was Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds, a splendid look at an American man and a Bangladeshi woman who meet over the internet and eventually marry; Freudenberger’s narrator, the Bangladeshi, is an astute adaptor to her new life and culture and marriage, but when she goes...
Few artists in Cincinnati have emerged so quickly and ubiquitously as Cedric Michael Cox. A 1999 Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate from the University of Cincinnati’s Design, Architecture, Art and Planning Program, he has in the last four years landed four solo exhibits at top exhibition venues in the city: The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center, Contemporary Arts Center, The Weston Gallery, and most recently PAC Gallery.
Lifting the large rock, smooth with a few dimples like my grandfather's face, I found positivity living in the mud under it: Worm-wiggle squirms, needle-toothed beetles, and karma-dowsed larva mingling in harmony.
COVINGTON, KY – The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center has opened its annual Call to Artists for the 2014 exhibition season. More than 30 solo and group shows will be selected for the six galleries in the upcoming season. Any artist living in the U.S. may apply. All media and styles are eligible.
The Cincinnati Art Museum continues its long history of supporting local artists with ARTiculate, a new series of talks exploring process and practice with Art Museum Director Aaron Betsky and Cincinnati artists.
Comfort: Fabrications February 6th – March 3rd Opening Reception – Thursday February 14th 6-9pm
All artists included in the project receive a complimentary copy of the book. (INDA 7 is 200 pages with 126 works!). Note that this project is open to broad interpretations of just what qualifies as 'drawing'. The publication is open to any artist submitting original works of art or design created within the past three years (2010 - 2012). Professionals and students in ALL disciplines are encouraged to submit.
