Most longtime residents of Cincinnati know that the city has a strong Jewish tradition. But did you know that it’s considered an historic center for Reform Judaism? It is, and has been for more than a century. In 1875 Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise founded the Hebrew Union College which, after merging with the Jewish Institute of Religion in 1950, became one of four campuses of the college institute. The Cincinnati campus...
Emerging Artists Exposed presents Audrey Weatherby discussing her artistic practice, textile construction, and wearable art. In this film interview directed and edited by Shawn Daniell for AEQAI, Weatherby explores the integration of garment design and painting, utilizing fabric as a dynamic canvas to investigate form, tactile textures, and personal expression.
At the Cincinnati Art Mu’seum, I alway’s breezed through the Schmidlapp Gallery with it’s antiquitie’s on my way ’somewhere el’se. Well, that will never happen again ’since the gallery ha’s been renovated to pre’sent “18 of the Art Mu’seum’’s mo’st iconic work’s of art,” according to the wall text.* That declaration i’s unnece’s’sary ’since the dramatic new in’stallation ’scream’s...
daydreaming of success of enhancing culture, of collaboration bringing this city up with all of our brilliance bringing this city to life with all of our passion filling this city up with our art, with our sounds with our faces and ideas … Excerpted from “Rubble of The Mind” by Jim Swill, Caustic Nostalgia: selected works 2007–2010 , self-published chapbook Here is Cincinnati...
The Cincinnati Art Museum’s current show, “Art Deco: Fashion and Design in the Jazz Age” is an exhibition contextualizing evening dresses from the Betty Colker Collection with textiles, prints, jewelry, furniture, and sundry other art objects related to the Art Deco aesthetic. The exhibition is decidedly female centric, focusing on the material trappings and images of women from the 1920-30s, and is a testament...
Matt Distel, a lively compact young man, is a curator, gallery director and general man about art. Anything written about him only scratches the surface of his penetrating involvement in the art life of Cincinnati, from the DeLeia to the CAC, from Country Club to Publico to The Weston, Distel has had his hand in curating, organizing, and invariably being at the center of what is happening in art, both here and in other...
Under the cover of darkness the city twinkles with the light from countless windows, streetlamps and signs, wrapping us in an ambient neon coat. Nighttime is when our urban spaces truly come alive. In his luminous new show at Cincinnati Art Galleries, LLC, Tom Bacher pushes the envelope with glowing, phosphorescent cityscapes and landscapes. The 25 paintings included in Fos-4-s-cent Met-A-more-fik Paintings represent...
The wall text for Julião Sarmento’s exhibit (closing January 22, 2012) at the Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art promises an exhibit built on “the concept of the book as an aesthetic and visceral object.” It goes on to report that many of Sarmento’s drawings exemplify the “sensuous gesture of holding a book.” Like a carnival barker’s hyperbolic and unintentionally ironic script, that text hypes up a show...
When asked to write about a favorite painting at the art museum, I saw it as an invitation to reestablish my emotional connection to the art I see. Recently, I find it hard to have a gut reaction to works that I spend time in front of. This is especially true if I sense that there is much for me to learn from certain works. My approach is all-wrong. I don’t wait for paintings to grab me anymore; I accost them and analyze...
