If you believe you can never have too much of a good thing, you will be feasting on outside-the-box creativity at the Carnegie Arts Center this month.
In a brief curatorial statement we get the gist of the exhibition Slide: Sculptural Installations by Pamela DeCoker and Alysia Fischer, Paintings by Kim Krause and CK Nichelson. It mingles four Ohio based artists who utilize physical materials and action for the revelation of their artwork. Viewing myriad abstractions, we are asked to consider how they offer both playful and dangerous associations with movement.
In Jane Alden Stevens’s “Windbreak Netting,” a mesh curtain hangs between us and the apples growing on a tree in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. The curtain protects the apples, but also serves to keep us at a distance, like a theater scrim. It also serves to remind us that in Stevens’s work, we see and experience nature through a filter of human intention and intervention.
Although The New York Times Books Review’s editors found 2012 to be an exceptionally exciting year for new fiction, I found the opposite to be the case: 2012 was one of the weakest years , overall, for new fiction in over a decade. Of course, good and some excellent fiction appeared,most all of it after Labor Day: releasing books isn’t supposed to parallel the Academy Awards stunt,...
“A world without rules and controls, without borders and boundaries. A world where anything is possible where, we go from there is a choice I leave to you.”
On a chilly Cincinnati evening – December 4, 2012 – in the company of two friends, I ascended Mount Adams after being picked up from Over-the-Rhine. We were in search of a dose of seriously diverse and hopefully thought-provoking art and culture: specifically, an evening of percussion, dance and photography, set in two separate venues...
A cheerful holiday exhibition lines the walls at Collector’s Art Group, second floor at 225 Sixth Street, downtown, conveying all sorts of interesting ideas without a Santa Claus to be seen. That is to say, this annual holiday show is a gathering of the work of nineteen area artists, the only unifying theme being an admirable level of skill and invention, shored up by neither Rudolph nor holly.
I’m considering films that showed in Cincinnati this past year, so here are my lists, in order of their playing here– a kind of top 20 playlist of films worth seeing. For the near future, Zero Dark Thirty, by Kathryn Bigelow, and Rust and Bone by Jacques Audiard, (The Prophet) which should come too late for 2012, are the ones I’m most waiting for.
Robert Pulley has found the perfect medium for his sculptures with their allusions to the earth’s geological history: clay, which is just mud, and perhaps symbolic of the primordial ooze of the beginnings of life. The results can be seen in “Standing in Time’s Flow” exhibition on view at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery through February 17, 2013.
