A phone call from a long time friend of mine alerted me to the passing of this reknowned woman whose approach to painting contributed to and influenced the gestural abstract movement of the 50′ s and 60’s. “I never usually read the obits in the New York Times” Marilyn began,” but I did last weekend, and guess who died?” Marilyn ‘(48) had attended Bennington back in the day and had a special trio friendship with Sonia...

The mystery in Jennifer Purdum’s paintings and drawings is flagrantly upfront, like a joke with a disturbing punch-line that really has nothing to do with the joke outside of being connected to it. In many of the pictures in “Inside/Out: Drawings and Paintings by Jennifer Purdum” now on display at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center through April 14, chunky...

I visited the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art for the purpose of reviewing the music video exhibition, “Spectacle:  The Music Video.”  Although I was overwhelmed with the exhibition’s nostalgic content involving the history of the visual components related to music, what I found myself captivated by was the work of artist Dasha Shishkin several floors below. Both exhibitions opened on the same evening...

David Miretsky immigrated to the United Sates in 1975 after being jailed for the satirical and naturalistic content of his paintings in Kiev. Miretsky made Cincinnati his home and Phyllis Weston presented his first solo show at The Closson Gallery downtown. Miretsky is still tackling tough subjects these days, as a biting but often humorous battle of the sexes plays out across his show at Phyllis Weston gallery this month.

Even compared with our contemporary view of art, J.M.W. Turner was an extraordinary talent. Accepted at the Royal Academy in London at age 14, often deliberately irascible, flaunting his cockney background at hopeful moneyed patrons, and justifiably confident of his value, he became an art force to be reckoned with in a time and place rife with artists, most of whom were born to more well-heeled backgrounds...

It took a while to fall under the spell of Alice Pixley Young’s solo exhibition, “Looking Glass,” at PAC Gallery, through April 14.
This was not aided by the persistent and annoying high-pitched sound that emanated from “You are looking for something that no longer exists” tableau. I’m certain it was an attempt to transport you to a different reality, but a deeper, more resonant soundtrack would have been more successful...

Pleasing the crowd was not Monet’s aim in life, but after the Impressionists’ convention-flaunting beginnings had simmered into acceptance he had a following that allowed him to live a life style of his own choosing and to paint as he pleased. He had more or less always done the latter; the former had been chancy...

Attention Alumni of the Ohio State University Department of Dance, The 2012 Application for the Dance Preservation Fund has been announced. Applications due Friday, April 6, 2012. Established in 1994 to further the recording of dance through awards to current students, alumni, current faculty and emeriti, the fund is also available to visiting artists, researchers, and notators in residence.

ÆQAI, GREATER CINCINNATI’S CONTEMPORARY ARTS JOURNAL, CELEBRATES ITS THIRD ANNIVERSARY AT THE CARNEGIE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER, COVINGTON, KY ON MARCH 21, 2012 Event: Third Annual Celebration and Benefit Party for ÆQAI: The Journal of Critical Thinking, Review, & Reflective Prose on Contemporary Art in Greater Cincinnati Date: Wednesday, March 21, 6-8 pm.