The traditional role of the frame in the presentation of art is not as simple as it once was. Many contemporary artists have found interesting ways to question it.
A poem by James Cummins: a happy-hour dialogue in clipped verse that spirals through liking, desire and illusion, each answer reversing the last.
As I began to wander the gallery at Brazee Studios, a young lady, Kayla, age 7, starts interacting with the sculptures with little hesitation, immediately reaching up and sliding the half-brick forward on a long, metal track, while instructing her mother to do the same with the opposing piece.
We live in a world full of ambiguity. Like many people, I find myself having to travel this world with little or no direction. It gets confusing out there trying to interpret the signs, especially when some of those signs may have multiple interpretations.
Years elapse between novels by Alice McDermott, one of America’s most accomplished novelists. It’s been seven years since her last offering, and her new novel, Someone, is one of those occasional perfect pieces of fiction that you read slowly, marvelling at the simplicity of her writing style, her easy narrative prose, her uncomplicated sentences, and the grace in her characters.
As the son of a carpenter from a working class background with family based in Norwood, Aaron Cowan, 42, has risen progressively through the ranks to become director of the Design, Art, Architecture and Planning (DAAP) Galleries at the University of Cincinnati.
Regan Brown reads Plato’s allegory of the cave through the Trickster of myth, from Cage’s silence and Rauschenberg’s white paintings to Banksy, and through the story of the man behind his documentary “Trickster,” to ask whether contemporary art is a con or the clearest mirror of our shifting reality.
Influenced by the late work of Monet and Modernist abstraction, a number of today’s landscape painters have isolated and focused on specific elements, and this series will consist of three parts: 1. skyscapes, 2. waterscapes, and 3. paintings with traditional landscape viewpoints.
When asked to write something answering the question “What is contemporary art?” I was uncertain where to begin. I mean, isn’t it obvious?
