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November | 2012

Sculpture of a dog-headed figure in a blue robe in the gardens of Peace Arch Park.
November 29th, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

Art Deadlines List – November 2012 Free Email Edition

April 1, 2013 THE ARTIST’S MAGAZINE 30th ANNUAL ART COMPETITION More than $25,000 in cash prizes will be awarded, and Top Award Winners will be featured in the December 2013 issue of The Artist’s Magazine! All winners will also appear in a special online gallery. There are 5 categories for you to compete and win. Plus, there’s a Special Student/Beginner Division for new artists.

Detail of the twisting branches of the Angel Oak in black and white.
November 29th, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

Manifest’s First Ever Call for REALISM

This exhibit will occupy two gallery spaces at Manifest from January 25 through February 22, 2013 and will be accompanied by a full color catalog documenting the included works. Eligibility: HIGH (realism’s realism) is open to everyone. Professionals as well as students are encouraged to enter. The only limitation is that entries must represent original works of art.

Washington Park and Cincinnati Music Hall in Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati
November 21st, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

LIGHT UP OTR RETURNS

The 3rd annual Light Up Over-the-Rhine (Light Up OTR) is back again, here to celebrate community and the new developments, and the restaurants, and store fronts that make our community a vibrant mecca of posterity.

Detail of illuminated digital video billboard in Times Square, New York City
November 20th, 2012 | By A.C. Frabetti

See.me invitation for creatives

To the artists, sculptors, designers, illustrators, painters, and creators: you are invited to celebrate your creative passion with an international community of over half a million members on See.Me.

Detail of Waterfall: Jump, a stylized diving figure in red and black.
November 19th, 2012 | By Maxwell Redder

Maxwell’s Poetry Corner

Cranberry juice, funneling through prickled paths of beard hair, drips from my Adam’s apple to my crotch – gray jeans turned sanguine. They won’t give me paint, only cranberry juice. Me, juice, chair, alone in a white cube – fluorescent tubes buzz...

Brick house doorway with pumpkins and red chrysanthemums.
November 19th, 2012 | By Margaret Cummins

Happy Thanksgiving: Short Story Scene

The small West Side neighborhood is quiet in the early morning of November 22nd, 2010. The dark green Subarus bump down Cherry Avenue, on a mission to pick up the last-minute necessities for the lavish dinners taking place that evening. A woman runs by with her black Lab leading her to the small park on the corner of Cherry and Ableton.

Glowing theater marquee and the title GOODBYE, DRAGON INN on the film poster.
November 19th, 2012 | By David Schloss

Goodbye Dragon Inn, by Tsao.

Ming-Liang Tsao’s “Goodbye Dragon Inn” (2003), is a very odd film, indeed. Nothing much “happens” in this 90-odd minute film, but an atmosphere of regret, elegy and surprising surreal tension is often evoked and sustained. It was shown twice, years ago, at the Cincinnati Art Museum by The Cincinnati Film Society, now defunct...

Hexagram: two superimposed equilateral triangles forming a hexagon.
November 19th, 2012 | By Dustin Pike

Geometrically Ordered Design: Perfect Six

“God produced the entire mass for the adornment of his majesty in six days. On the seventh day, he consecrated it with a blessing” – Victorinus (on the creation of the world) This is my sixth article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics. Design in essence cannot be accomplished without specific degrees of control, and almost always has a definitive point to make.

Farm scene with cacti in the foreground.
November 19th, 2012 | By Jonathan Kamholtz

Cole Carothers’s Outdoor and Indoor Light

If you go to “Building Sight(s),” Cole Carothers’s new exhibit at the 5Th Street Gallery, looking forward to seeing works in the artist’s traditional look, you may be disappointed. For more than three decades, Carothers has produced paintings that explore the continuities and discontinuities of space.