Faced with the end of modernism, art historian Hal Foster attempted to define the role of the critic within post-modern art in “Re: Post” (1982). Ultimately, he suggested that postmodernism allows art to go “beyond the limits of critique,” because there is no longer one all-encompassing way of evaluation [Think of modernist critic Clement Greenberg’s dogmatic search for “purity” within the medium itself]. More recently,...
As an emerging artist in the Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky area , you may be asking yourself what your options are when it comes to gallery spaces that will showcase your artwork. The Thompson House in Newport, Kentucky and the former location of the Southgate House offers up a new option for emerging artists with the Thompson House Shooting Gallery.
In its history, Cincinnati has managed to accumulate a number of hidden gems. The Lloyd Library is one of them. The Lloyd is a private library that was incorporated in the late 1800s, and is located at Plum and Court streets. The collection has lived in a few different spaces as it has grown, but the focal point of the collection has remained the same—the science and history of pharmacognosy (the study of medicines derived...
This may be prejudice, but print shows are always elegant to me. It might be the stark, bravado of good line on fine paper, or the iteration of symbols, or even the sinuous curls and aggressive exclamations of straight lines reminiscent of the waning popularity of cursive writing. (We never appreciate small beauties until they’re gone.) Yet, as long as there are printmakers of Mary Woodworth Provosty’s caliber, the little...
The best films I saw in the Cincinnati area in April were in the annual Tournees Francaise series at NKU, plus one at the Carnegie through Cincinnati World Cinema. The Tournee presents the best of recent French cinema that hasn’t played commercially here.
The Zaha Hadid designed Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, with its intermittently soaring and squatting ceilings and massive concrete pillars, has been notoriously challenging for artists and curators alike. Fortunately, the two current exhibitions on the second floor...
“The Valley of Understanding: Here we all choose a different way and different rules to disobey.” ― from The Conference of the Birds (منطق الطیر) by Peter Sís (adapted from Farid ud-Din Attar) [1] My first of several consecutively less disfigurative “windows” onto Iranian-America Diaspora was opened somewhere in the year 1984, when I was just a wee teenager, growing up in the chemically ever-greened Arcadia of an Ohio Valley...
“The triad is the form of the completion of all things.” -Nichomachus, Pythagorean philosopher
When you walk into Suzanne Fisher’s exhibition at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center (one of six shows presented under the rubric “Full of Color”), you enter a world of wonder. In fact, if Fisher had given her show its own title, it would have been “Natural Wonders.”
