The American Sign Mueseum’s creative placemaking project, CoSign, launches in Covington on March 27. A rigorous competition, CoSign offers a unique opportunity for artists and designers to create new handcrafted signage for local retailers in the up-and-coming Madison Avenue business district in Covington.
Now in its 9th year, the Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowships were established to increase public awareness of contemporary visual art in the Midwest. The intent of the fellowship is to reward creativity and encourage emerging and established individual artists by supporting their artistic development.
Manifest invites artists to apply for the Manifest Artist Residency award: a free studio for one year in East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. The call deadline is April 9, 2014, and selection notices go out on or around May 1, 2014.
In 1964, Susan Sontag wrote an essay called “Notes on ‘Camp’” that still wraps and winds its tentacles throughout culture today. Basically a survey of “Camp’s” meanings, practices and perversions, the essay reads like a Bible for drag, piss-elegance and artful political incorrectness used to both disembowel and deconstruct the mainstream.
KnifeandFork, an art collaborative know for site-specific installations led by Brian House and Sue Huang’s choice of Modest Mussorgsky’s adapted “Pictures at an Exhibition,” most notably known for the closing theme to PBS’ American Masters Series, struck an appropriate chord as I made my way through the Contemporary Art Center’s opening of “Buildering, Misbehaving the City,” held the final Friday of February.
In Jean Restout’s “Pygmalion and Galatea,” the statue of Galatea, newly come to life, spreads her arms and bares her breasts to the adoring sculptor. She seems less surprised at her new incarnation than he does; he gazes at him with a sophisticated, impish look, like something you’d see in an old New Yorker cartoon. His knees are bent, perhaps buckling, and he holds out his hands. He has not dropped his tools in surprise.
“CCAC (Clifton Cultural Arts Center) will have a beautiful show with these five artists.” That’s how the curator, Yvonne van Eitjden, described the exhibition of two photographers, two wood sculptors, and one painter (herself [Why, oh why, do curators include their own work in exhibitions? How about they make a pact with their curator/artist friends? Curator/artist “A” could include curator/artist “B”
The interlude where I met Gaela Erwin occurred in the minutes before her scheduled gallery talk at Manifest showing of her current pastel work: ‘RECENT PORTRAITS” A tall and attractive Louisville native, she emerged from the anteroom to shake my hand and apologized for the cold touch.
At La Poste Eatery in Clifton, artist M. Katherine Hurley is telling a story over dinner. Her story, “Returning Home,” is on the walls, in colors good enough to eat – if she will forgive me for saying that – in a series of ten works that reflect a trip from Ohio to the west coast and home again.
One of the attractions Newport-on-the-Levee has brought to Greater Cincinnati is the tourist version of the World War II “duck boat” on which you can cruise the Ohio River. Those of us who remember the “duck boat” that got run over by a barge on the Delaware River in Philadelphia will wear our life jackets.
A recent graduate art student was contemplating the ideas set forth in the Bible. As he pondered the depth of the mysterious mind of God he reached for his plenty pack of chewing gum, unwrapped a thin stick of refreshment and carefully folded it into his mouth.
Trailing behind the phenomenon of globalization is the individual’s growing awareness of its identity within a politically, socially, and environmentally global community. Old news, yes, but this concept is exponentially significant as the world continues to shift at the expense of both humans and the natural world.
“Bespoke” was hardly an often-used description of jewelry during the ’60’s when Art Smith created the highly original pieces seen in his current display at CAM, but it now seems to refer to the rather funky, hand-made, individualistic pieces currently taking the high road in fashion.
The Carnegie’s eighth installment of The Art of Food has become an extravagant opening night affair. But in the days that follow, the viewing experience becomes anticlimactic and sadly underwhelming. I’ve perused photos of the opening night online. I’ve seen the Alice and Wonderland costumed characters.
Iris BookCafe and Gallery is an uncluttered but homey café/gallery on upper Main Street. Main between Central Parkway and Liberty has retained its DYI vibe, the bars, restaurants, cafes and retail still feeling a bit less polished than its more 3CDC-ish neighbor, Vine Street. Both are great, but Main Street and places like Iris somehow feel a bit more authentically urban.
In the city we call Cincinnati, there lies nestled a hidden gem of a library founded by three brothers, John Uri, Nelson Ashley, and Curtis Gates Lloyd. They ventured here first and foremost, to further their knowledge and practice of pharmaceuticals, and as it turned out they were quite successful.
1455: Mainz, Germany. Johannes Gutenberg nears completion on the first edition of the forty-two line bible with moveable type and machinery he’s spent years developing. 1969: Los Angeles, USA. Charley S. Kline sends the first message across an early version of the internet: “LO.” He was attempting to type “LOGIN,” which he successfully did on the second attempt. Are these two moments in time comparable? Absolutely.
Kymberly Henson has been working in the arts for over 30 years. After graduating with an art degree from Edgecliff College she owned and operated a wearable art studio called “Kymber Originals”, producing one of a kind and limited edition hand-painted and shibori clothing.
“Be open for growth and the unexpected nature of art-making.” Jeremy Plunkett “The year goes by fast. You cannot take a week for granted.” Nicholas Mancini After I completed my interviews with Jeremy Plunkett and Nicholas Mancini, Manifest’s second-year Artists in Residence, I was mentally exhausted.
As the search for a new director of the Art Museum continues, we have been made aware that the museum board places high priority on the director being part of the international art scene, known internationally.
There is good art everywhere, just look. Look a little harder and you will find great art just about anywhere. Such is the case with the exhibition of Robert Motherwell and Lee Hall in Jackson Hole, Wyoming’s big ski country. Great art indeed.
From “The Indian Chief” by Henry Farny to “Mending the Nets” by Dixie Selden, The Eisele Gallery of Fine Art offers outstanding paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries. Owned and operated by President/Chief Executive Officer Doug Eisele since 2005, the gallery features works by both living and deceased artists.
The contrast between the gray people-moving facility I’d left in Dallas-Fort Worth and the airy concourse into which I disembarked at the Roanoke Regional Airport that the architect Ron Price envisioned as a “transition between earth and air” could not have been greater.
The Apartment, a new novel by Greg Baxter, is a very compelling, beautifully crafted and written book wherein all the action takes place on one single day in an unnamed Eastern European capital, most likely but not necessarily, Prague.
Seeping from my brain like sap from a pine, slowly building into a sticky clump. I clean the wax from my ear and ponder is it formed from wasted energy of my pale thoughts — never written on paper — the ones but little blips, like rain particles lost in a cloud.
Her eyes of sapphire blue Challenge you under quizzical brows. Like a Vermont wildflower, She was tough and unspoiled. Plucked, She might fail to survive. The girl from those green hills Wanted to try art school. She was our daily server At an elegant small mountain resort. I helped her to get in. To Philadelphia she went, Talented and brave.
The March issue of aeqai has just posted, and it’s a very large issue, full of reviews and essays and profiles and Letters from other cities.
We’ve reached the halfway point in our 2014 ArtsWave Community Campaign and we’re just over halfway to our $12 million goal. If you enjoyed Macy’s Arts Sampler this past weekend or any of the amazing arts events happening all over our region, we hope you’ll consider making a gift today. Got questions about ArtsWave and our impact on the community? Here are answers to our two most frequently asked questions.
“SOS ART 2014,” a group art show and event of sociopolitical expressions for peace and justice, in its 12th consecutive year, will take place at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, May 30-June 8, 2014. Greater Cincinnati artists of all expressions are invited to participate.
CINCINNATI (3-19-2014)- More than 900 people joined us for our February Art After Dark, come experience what everyone is discovering! After After Dark is the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Final Friday Happy Hour. This month join us for Art After Dark: Rococo Vibrations.
Brazee Street Studios’ gallery One One has opened its annual summer call for entry. For the last 3 years, the Summer group show at gallery One One has focused on Color through the “hue” exhibitions. This year’s exhibit shifts away from the focus on color and instead highlighs another design element- SHAPE.
After drawing 830,000 visitors last year, Roppongi Art Night 2014, an all-night extravaganza presenting art exhibitions and performances throughout central Tokyo’s iconic Roppongi entertainment district, is gearing up to welcome another huge crowd of joyous spectators between 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 19 and 6 p.m. on Sunday, April 20, 2014.
Please join Raphaela Platow, Director and Chief Curator and Steven Matijcio, Curator for a CAC Art Trip to Cleveland the weekend of April 4, 5 and 6, 2014. We have chosen Cleveland for its proximity and outstanding resources for the arts.
Cincinnati Art Galleries, LLC continues its moving sale, with new items added every day and an extra 20% off the listed sale prices on remaining furniture. An Ellis arm chair, for example, has a sale price of $900, now $720. The first show in the new space will be works by Wolfgang Ritschel on March 28, 2014.
The Clifton Cultural Arts Center has brand new classes for the spring season. They have classes for all people of all ages including: Young Yogis, Classical Guitar for the Lifelong Beginner, African Drumming, Tap 1 & Tap II, Fiction Workshop, Pilates, Mosaic Garden Art, Tai Chi, and much more.
Blink Art Resource and Art Design Consultants (ADC) offer artists a way to place their work with interior designers, architects, galleries and art consultants, and announce $125,000+ in awards for their juried competition, Art Comes Alive.
Photographer Doug Birkenheuer will also have an array of Framed Originals as well as a few BRAND NEW one-of-a-kind hand-built works on display during the open studio.
Manifest invites artists to apply for the Manifest Artist Residency award: a free studio for one year in East Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. The call deadline is April 9, 2014, and selection notices go out on or around May 1, 2014.
Our second Macy’s Arts Sampler Saturday features an amazing line-up of FREE events Downtown and in Over-the-Rhine, including a special concert at Music Hall at 1 p.m. featuring the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Ballet, Cincinnati Opera, May Festival Chorus, and Cincinnati Shakespeare Company.
Le SMCA a besoin de vous et de votre soutien pour mener à bien ses projets. Nous cherchons à maintenir la programmation d’expositions et d’événements à l’échelle internationale, programmation dotée d’un riche contenu scientifique dans les domaines de la production d’événements innovants et de la promotion de l’art contemporain.
The submission period for the 4th annual echo Art Fair, scheduled for September 6 and 7, 2014 at the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library’s Central Library (BECPL) in downtown Buffalo, New York, is officially open.
The Betts House is proud to announce our 2014 Betts Longworth Historic District (BLHD) Walking Tours, offered each month from March through October. This guided walking tour of the Betts Longworth Historic District (BLHD) will explore the architecture and history of this unique neighborhood. The tour will occur regularly during walking tour season (March through October) taking place the fourth Saturday of each month at 1 pm.
“Rejoice!: A Retrospective of Avtar Gill, the Cincinnati Hat-Man” opens April 25, 2014 at Thunder-Sky, Inc. with a reception 6 to 10 pm. The show closes June 13, 2014.
From gleaming silverware on an elegantly set table to a shining trophy held high above the winner’s head, silver speaks volumes about American style, values, innovation and industry, and continues to do so today.
