The Bernheim Arboretum’s overriding mission is to “explore [our] deep connections with nature.” This is not trite lip service to faddish “eco-tourism” or to the type of environmentalism that considers nature as a separate entity that one looks upon as a subject. Bernheim, and the Fresh Air show, embodies Shakespeare’s obvious but overlooked concept that “we are nature too.”
Alice Aycock was a seminal presence in the New York avant-garde art scene in the 1970s, and has since continued to create work that simultaneously dissects and combines aspects of monumental sculpture, architecture, science and modern machinery.
The Burden of Violence: Todd Pavlisko’s “Crown” at the Cincinnati Art Museum through June 15th.
The basement space at the Weston Art Gallery has always felt claustrophobic and a little spooky to me, like a staged scene in a really serious movie about abduction, no matter what art goes on the walls. It’s the ceiling that does it, kind of looming over the whole area like a grim cloud. Charles Woodman’s new show in that space, called “Passages,” takes advantage of the gloomy confinement.
Many years ago, I saw a group of photographs of tulips in bloom, pulled out of the ground, dirt still clinging to the bulbs and roots, captured after they had been laid out horizontally on a table. They were part of a group show in a strip mall. The photographs were not what I had come to see and I am a little embarrassed at how little I can now remember key details about them, including the artist’s name.
In “Under the Sun” (what a great title for an exhibition of photograms made by the sun), Anita Douthat is presenting four series — “Transparent Uniforms,” “Bridal Suite,” “Alterations,” and “Candelabras for Constantin (Brancusi)” — in a solo show at the Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery.
The recent death of Millard Rogers, Director Emeritus of The Cincinnati Art Museum, not only brings back some extremely fond memories for many of us who knew him well, but also reminds me that we are searching now for another director of the art museum. I am hoping that we can remember so many of Millard’s strengths as we continue to search for someone to be hired for this same job.
After last month’s lackluster experience at The Carnegie’s Art of Food, I was looking for something a little less mainstream. I was looking for something off the beaten path. I desired something fun and quirky. I’m always searching for new galleries or spaces that don’t see a lot of coverage.
Ricci Michaels was born and raised in Philadelphia, the seventh of eight daughters. Encouraged by her teachers, she started painting at a very young age, as far back as kindergarten. She liked to see her pictures hung often in her classroom. Being the seventh child out of eight she struggled for attention, and drawing helped her gain notice.
Atmosphere at Miller Gallery is a pleasurable show, hung so that the works feed off each other in interesting ways. The chosen subject matter is a jumping-off point to present artists moving in both original and time-tested ways, admittedly some more successfully than others.
For years a particular painting, sculpture, a piece of jewelry or a piece of furniture was a badge amongst the cognoscenti-modernism was like a secret club. In conjunction with its exhibit, “From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith” (Feb. 22, 2014 – May 18,2014), the Cincinnati Art Museum recently hosted a symposium, “What’s So Great About Modernism?” on April 12, 2014.
Lily Mulberry’s long and difficult battle with cancer ended this month. For almost a decade her 1305 Gallery has given authenticity and continuing interest to the vivacity of the upper Main Street art scene and she herself was always a pleasure to encounter. The loss to the art community is both professional and personal.
COVINGTON – Curator Daniel Brown assembled the exhibition called The Definitive Contemporary Landscape to robustly prove a point.
We are deeply saddened to let our readers know of the untimely death of Lily Mulberry, who invented and ran a gallery in OTR called 1305 Main. That gallery showed some of the finest exhibitions, mainly of area talent, of any gallery in the region. Lily herself had a very fine eye for quality artwork at reasonable prices.
“I am going to be an art historian,” announced Cate Yellig, now 33, to her father Chuck when she was 20. Her dad told her to find a career that paid the bills. A native Cincinnatian, Yellig eventually wound up as art director of the Covington Arts Center.
Gatlinburg, Tennessee once was a quiet little town sporting one motel with rooms overlooking a rushing mountain stream and one restaurant. At least, it was on my first trip there. Several years later, I revisited it to find a commercial nightmare had descended upon it , its main street, and side two-lane roads lined with restaurants and tourist shops. Fast food reigned and anything kitsch was offered at exorbitant prices.
The magnet piece in Recognized: Contemporary Portraiture at the Carnegie Arts Center was definitely “Biker Mice”. With the same fury seen in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s art, Marci Rosin splashed her signature subject based on the cartoon, “Biker Mice from Mars” with graffiti and speed. I tried to escape, but was drawn back to the two outrageous supermice in all their active glory.
I. Production moving up is a scummy tank whose bubbles always read as green because the budget doesn’t allow for a thorough scrubbing II. Hierarchy: everyone has eyes that report to other sets like a wave, slowly and always concentrating on the tip: anticipate a breaking point.
Like turning off a light, Time stopped The era was ended, And suddenly I sat Staring at myself In the mirror. Fingers tracing lines, Pretending that all my sorrows Were fulfilled and borrowed From someone else. Pretending that sighs stopped And crying had no more food When my laughter Cascaded across the room. Pretending I had a voice, That no one had more to say Then I.
Two recently published books, one fiction, and one non-fiction, have recently come out, and both of them are utterly outstanding in trying to explain what is happening to our soldiers when they come back from either Iraq or Afghanistan. Phil Klay’s Redeployment is a work of unmitigated brilliance, and presents a powerful new talent in Klay.
I would like to thank everyone who came to, or helped with, the aeqai benefit party at Marta Hewett Gallery on April 17th. The event was highly successful, and generated 125% more money than last year’s. We also want to thank all the artists who were kind enough to donate their work for our silent auction to add to our coffers.
More than 500 people joined us for Art After Dark in March, come experience what everyone is discovering! After After Dark is the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Final Friday Happy Hour. Unwind after a busy week and enjoy after-hours access to our galleries This month join us for Art After Dark: Speed of Light.
The 45th Annual Duveneck Memorial Art Show takes place on Sunday, May 11, from noon to 5pm in George Rogers Clark Park in Covington, Kentucky, with 68 artisans selling painting, jewelry, glass, sculpture, photography, pottery and stone work.
Mayor Cranley, Local Leaders to Speak at Exhibit for Avtar Gill, The Cincinnati Hat-Man Who: Mayor John Cranley, County Commissioner Todd Portune, and City Councilmember Chris Seelbach What: Speeches honoring late Cincinnati icon Avtar Gill for “Rejoice! A Retrospective of Avtar Gill, the Cincinnati Hat-Man.” When: Friday, April 25, 6:30pm Where: Thunder-Sky, Inc.
In response to my plea for help in ridding the world of guns and hatred, Dr. Marcia McFee wrote:
The Center for Emerging Visual Artists invites you to submit images of your artwork for review by our guest curator, Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Curator & Director of High Line Art (New York). Of the applicants, ten to twenty-five artists will be asked to present a digital portfolio of approximately ten images.
Enjoy a Delicious Easter Brunch this Sunday, April 20 from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Bring your friends and family to celebrate Easter Sunday at the Taft Museum of Art. Delicious Easter brunch dishes include Lamb Tagine, Benedict Cumberbatch, Twisted Caesar Salad, Cottontail Toast, and much more. To view the menu, visit our website.
The Cincinnati Art Museum offered several programs over the Easter weekend of April 19 and 20, 2014: an American Sign Language tour of its Art Smith jewelry exhibition, a recycled art class for children, and a craft session making fabric plant hangers. Reservations are required for the first two.
Local artist Jolie Harris presents new works at an open studio reception on April 25, 2014, from 5:30 to 8:30 PM, at her studio on the second floor of the Solway Gallery Building in Cincinnati.
Come join our team of ace detectives as we travel the world in search of stolen artwork. We will be creating our very own great works of art and studying the relationship of art to the world around us.
Today the Ohio Statuary Hall Commission (OSHC) issued a Request for Qualifications (RFQ) to artists as they begin the process of commissioning a statue of Thomas Edison to be added to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol. The OSHC is seeking qualified artists to submit proposals for the statue and will eventually select five finalists before the final proposal is chosen.
SOS ART 2014 is a group art show and event of sociopolitical expressions for peace and justice, in its 12th consecutive year. Greater Cincinnati artists of all expressions are invited to participate in the show, which runs from May 30 to June 8, 2014 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. The deadline for applications is May 12, 2014.
Midcentury Modernism reached its pinnacle during the years following World War II. In recent years, it has regained widespread popularity. But what makes it so enticing? Find out in this day-long symposium, presented in conjunction with the exhibition From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith.
The Contemporary Art Center of Thessaloniki of the State Museum of Contemporary Art invites you to the opening of the group exhibition “BODY MEMORY“ on Saturday March 29, 2014, at 20:00, at Warehouse B1, port area.
CoSign is an opportunity for Greater Cincinnati-based visual artists to design unique signs for businesses located along Covington’s Madison Avenue corridor. To participate in CoSign, artists must attend an informational workshop on either April 28 or May 6, 5:30 – 7:30 pm at Covington Arts. Artists will receive information needed to develop and submit a completed sign design proposal. All proposals are due May 16, 2014.
The Cincinnati Art Museum Board of Trustees today announced an interim management structure for the Art Museum as it searches for its next Director: David Linnenberg, Chief Administrative Officer, will serve as the institution’s Interim Director of the Museum. Cincinnati Art Museum Director, Aaron Betsky, who announced his retirement January 2, 2014, will step down May 1, 2014.
