Cincinnati, OH – Museums & Historic Sites of Greater Cincinnati invites residents and visitors to explore the many historic and cultural gems of the Greater Cincinnati region at Museum Day on Fountain Square, Wednesday, May 15, 2013, 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Come and learn about attractions from across the Tri-state in one convenient downtown Cincinnati location.
Registration for all Summer 2013 Adult/Teen and Children’s programming is now open! The AAC’s Community Education courses are affordable and open to all; we have classes for people of every age and skill level, from beginners to accomplished artists.
Milton Glaser, designer for all seasons, has turned his omni-talented hand to carpets, as can be seen in the glowing exhibition Milton Glaser: Drawings and Rugs at Carl Solway Gallery now through July 13.
In Sara Pearce’s world, men can wear dresses, with or without the blue, satin sashes. In RolePlay, her solo exhibit on display at 1305 Gallery, Pearce explores several concepts including the examination of gender roles, the concept of female empowerment, and being gay.
My flight arrives on time, the cab line is short and traffic is thin, so my arrival at the Gramercy Park Hotel is before noon, allowing for a quick lunch of Alphabet Soup and Grilled Cheese at the Terrace Restaurant, where the walls are hung with Warhol paintings, a Damien Hirst pharmacy cabinet and other art jumpstarts the weekend, no letters left in my soup bowl, I’m out into the flurries...
Both artists are are from India, both have been celebrated internationally, and both exhibit imagery which contains the multiple layers of their exotic homeland and a nearly unplumbable history. My own knowledge of Indian culture is casual, at best, a fact that really didn’t hinder a very human understanding of the art forms on display at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, Ohio through May 5.
From a distance, “Empire Falling #6” (the artist’s titles are not very helpful as aide-memoires or to help us focus on the picture’s issues) might be a colorized photograph taken by a long-gone intrepid nineteenth century archeological explorer. The landscape is desolate, remote, and unpeopled.
This is my eleventh article pertaining to the design field and its relationship with mathematics and geometry. In order to understand design language at its core, the viewer must understand the acoustics of perception on multiple levels. These articles are my attempt to demonstrate how all art-forms derive from a single source, and are but many shades of the same color.
William McGee Works 1954-1977 just closed at the University of Cincinnati’s Reed Gallery. The show gave a wonderful introduction to a talented artist who had the good and bad fortune to be making work alongside some of the most important American painters in history.
