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Detail of illuminated digital video billboard in Times Square, New York City
November 20th, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

See.me invitation for creatives

To the artists, sculptors, designers, illustrators, painters, and creators: you are invited to celebrate your creative passion with an international community of over half a million members on See.Me.

Detail of Waterfall: Jump, a stylized diving figure in red and black.
November 19th, 2012 | By Maxwell Redder

Maxwell’s Poetry Corner

Cranberry juice, funneling through prickled paths of beard hair, drips from my Adam’s apple to my crotch – gray jeans turned sanguine. They won’t give me paint, only cranberry juice. Me, juice, chair, alone in a white cube – fluorescent tubes buzz...

Brick house doorway with pumpkins and red chrysanthemums.
November 19th, 2012 | By Margaret Cummins

Happy Thanksgiving: Short Story Scene

The small West Side neighborhood is quiet in the early morning of November 22nd, 2010. The dark green Subarus bump down Cherry Avenue, on a mission to pick up the last-minute necessities for the lavish dinners taking place that evening. A woman runs by with her black Lab leading her to the small park on the corner of Cherry and Ableton.

Glowing theater marquee and the title GOODBYE, DRAGON INN on the film poster.
November 19th, 2012 | By David Schloss

Goodbye Dragon Inn, by Tsao.

Ming-Liang Tsao’s “Goodbye Dragon Inn” (2003), is a very odd film, indeed. Nothing much “happens” in this 90-odd minute film, but an atmosphere of regret, elegy and surprising surreal tension is often evoked and sustained. It was shown twice, years ago, at the Cincinnati Art Museum by The Cincinnati Film Society, now defunct...

Hexagram: two superimposed equilateral triangles forming a hexagon.
November 19th, 2012 | By Dustin Pike

Geometrically Ordered Design: Perfect Six

“God produced the entire mass for the adornment of his majesty in six days. On the seventh day, he consecrated it with a blessing” – Victorinus (on the creation of the world) This is my sixth article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make.

Farm scene with cacti in the foreground.
November 19th, 2012 | By Jonathan Kamholtz

Cole Carothers’s Outdoor and Indoor Light

If you go to “Building Sight(s),” Cole Carothers’s new exhibit at the 5Th Street Gallery, looking forward to seeing works in the artist’s traditional look, you may be disappointed. For more than three decades, Carothers has produced paintings that explore the continuities and discontinuities of space.

Pen sketch of a wigwam frame.
November 19th, 2012 | By Larry Watson

“Camera-Shy: Photographs and an Installation at Thunder-Sky, Inc.”

In the multimedia installation at Thunder-Sky, Inc., Mary Pember has assembled a historical “snapshot” of her experience as a part of the Native American paradox for her and for her mother. This installation, “Digital Wigwam” stretches the medium of photography into a personal experience to include audio and environment, which is a reflection of the traditional Lodge that was used on multiple levels for visual, auditory...

Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, black-and-white portrait.
November 19th, 2012 | By Kevin Ott

13 MOST BEAUTIFUL: DEAN & BRITTA

Dean and Britta and their band brought their live show, “13 Most Beautiful…Songs for Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests” to the Emery Theater, Friday, December 9th. In conjunction with the CAC’s FotoFocus show of Andy Warhol’s photography, the musically accompanied screen tests demonstrated the remarkable results of the melding of the arts across disciplines: the slow motion photo-realism of Warhol’s spectacular screen tests...

Detail of Cindy Sherman as Lucille Ball, face with curled hair.
November 19th, 2012 | By Laura A. Partridge

“Performative Self-Portraits”: BODY/OBJECTS at the Carl Solway Gallery

BODY/OBJECTS is one of three FOTOFOCUS exhibitions currently on view at the Carl Solway Gallery. It features the work of 10 photographers, including: Cindy Sherman, Anita Douthat, Sarah Charlesworth, John Coplans, Ann Hamilton, Suzy Lake, Laurel Nakadate, Amanda Means, Cynthia Greg and Hannah Wilke. Some of the work in the exhibition relates to the theme of the exhibition— body as object—more directly than others.