The Baker Hunt Art & Cultural Center invites visitors to meet the artists and teachers behind its annual adult student show and sale on Sunday, June 1, from 2:00 to 4:00 pm, with a chance to enjoy the gardens in Covington, Kentucky.
The official fundraiser that kicks off summer, A Taste of Duveneck, returns to the Cincinnati Art Museum on Thursday, June 5th, from 6pm-9pm. Last year, the event brought in more than 700 guests.
CINCINNATI, OH (5/22/14) – This month, join us as we celebrate the past and present with Art After Dark: Cincinnati Pride Night! After After Dark, the Cincinnati Art Museum’s Final Friday Happy Hour is proud to be involved with the Cincinnati Pride celebration this year as the 1st official stop on the Skyy Vodka Pub Crawl. Kick off Pride Weekend and enjoy after-hours access to our galleries.
La Fondazione Biagiotti Progetto Arte è lieta di presentare Mnemonic City, un progetto del collettivo Magma nella città di Firenze. Il collettivo, nato nel 2009, ha sede a Londra ed è composto da artisti provenienti da ogni angolo del mondo.
Kay Hurley’s art has been, quite simply but very profoundly, an exploration of the beautiful. Luminous, tonal, unpeopled landscape has unabashedly been her exclusive “genre”. Her commitment to her art has been steadfast, second only to actually living life. Or more aptly put, perhaps, would be to say she has appropriately combined the two.
Nearly fifteen panels of translucent silk hung at the entrance of the Tuska Gallery for Contemporary Art on the campus of the University of Kentucky. They overlapped in such a way as to block any clear access to the interior of the gallery space that housed the B.F.A. exhibition of Roya Ramezankhani during May of 2014.
Raveled – Unraveled starts off with a a linguistic challenge. In most usages “ravel” and “unravel” carry the same meaning, but for the purposes of this exhibition they are taken to be opposites.
Shall I tell you the secret of the whole world? Painting Parody and Disguise at the Contemporary Arts Center presents a range of painterly practice from sculptural to traditional, conceptual to formal. As such it is a coup for the Contemporary Arts Center, whose recent presentations can seem to under-represent the current excitement surrounding contemporary painting.
Once in a great while, people appear who truly care about art and artists. At 506 Ash this rare miracle has morphed into a highly successful, bottom line-less, mutually advantageous, limited opportunity to allow collectors access to the finest of area art in a most unlikely space. The show-place is, in fact, an old garage on a dead end industrial street in Elsmere, Kentucky, and at the opening on May 17, it was packed.
Story is an unmatched force. Stories possess the power to transcend time, to connect human experience, to cross cultures, to resonate on both individual and global scales, to permeate emotion and logic, to unite adversaries, to shift perspectives, to revitalize past, present (especially present), and to renew the future.
COVINGTON – Viewing Marc Leone’s hanging artworks, one can almost see a planet being formed. Tectonic plates collide. Mountains rise. Lava oozes from gigantic cracks on the planet’s crust. And the craters show striations from millions of years of erosion.
Sam Foy in the archive garden and Aaron Skolnick’s pairs of shoes, both photographed on May 5, 2014 for The Archive of Louis Zoellar Bickett.
Shawn came to see me in 2010, when I had just taken over as Editor of aeqai. She was shy but certain that she had an idea that would be good for aeqai and for her. I remember her literally sitting on the edge of my couch, until she got more comfortable and then moved on back.
There is a little something for everyone in the Figurative Invitational at Miller Gallery. Their selection of artists, both local and international, accommodates several of the trendy approaches considered current today.
This photography exhibition presents several decades of historic, artistic and contemporary images of American icons who embody the concept of “Cool”.
Photographs from the Northside Studio Tour on May 18, 2014: a pop-up by Kip Eagan at the Hoffner Lodge, Margot Gottoff’s desk, and Frank Herman’s studio.
I first met Shawn as a journalist. In February 2011 she covered a lecture by the French artist Claire Illouz for The Northerner, NKU’s student newspaper.
The recent trip to New York by our symphony, The May Festival Chorus, The Cincinnati Opera, The Cincinnati Ballet, The Art Museum, The Taft Museum, The Ariel String Quartet from CCM, and seven area chefs represents a new opening wedge in branding and marketing Cincinnati nationally.
When we joined the CAC in the 1950s we were just back from two months abroad, having saved our money and quit our jobs to make the trip. CAC was young and so were we, and I think we were fired with the idea of keeping our culture level high and open. Also, it didn’t cost much to belong, an important element in our free-time life.
Aeqai congratulates the CAC as it celebrates its 75 anniversary year. We have decided to help the festivities by asking two people a month to let us know what the CAC has meant to them.
Shortly after World War I in April 1919, Das Staatliche Bauhaus—The State Home for Building—opened under the leadership of 31-year old Walter Gropius. The new Bauhaus was a merger of two existing schools: the Weimar Arts and Crafts School and the Weimar Art Academy. This marriage of applied arts and fine arts was the Bauhaus ideal.
Driving North America’s main arteries, I nod to Hudgins’ Cadillac in the Attic while snapping a shutter, amused that the attic car will never visit Cadillac Ranch; I nod to Amarillo.
The month of May has been full of art exhibitions, indoor and outdoor, and lots of benefit parties to raise money for them. We are nearing the end of the official art year, in June, as the art season is more or less the same as the school year. Aeqai will post a June issue, and then one summer issue in July/August.
In this article I will be dissecting the notion that letters and numbers have shared an integral relationship with each other since their very beginnings, which, in ancient Greek times, was called ‘Gematria’ or ‘Isopsophy’. The basic idea is that since numbers, and their inter-relationships, form the key to every science, it would make perfect sense to have an alphabet based on the same principles.
Midway through my exploration of BLDG, the Covington based branding/art studio/creative think tank/gallery, Jay Becker said “It all starts with the art”. I was trying to grasp ahold of the many tentacles that BLDG seems to be, and this statement described the head of the octopus.
Francine Prose’s newest novel, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932, is both her finest to date as well as the best novel of 2014 to date. The book is written from several different points of view, and by several different narrators/protagonists. Prose takes us to Paris in the late 20’s, and the novel runs through World War II and briefly afterwards.
Nathan Weikert was born and raised in Kettering, Ohio. He graduated from Miami University with a BS in art education (1998), a BFA in painting (1998), and a MA in art education (2002). In 2013 he had a solo exhibition at 1305 Gallery in Over The Rhine and earned an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award.
A virtual plethora of new African writers is taking the literary world by surprise and by storm. Last year’s Amerikah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ended up on The New York Times’ five best novels of the year, most deservedly (I had not, at that time, read it).
INPA 3! Manifest celebrates the recent public release of its 3rd International Painting Annual (INPA 3), a stunning 184 page full color survey of contemporary painting from across the U.S. and the world.
SOS ART 2014 is a community art show and event of creative expressions for peace and justice. It runs from May 30 to June 8 at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, with free public events: an opening, poetry readings, dance, music, a documentary screening, and panel discussions on affordable housing and the death penalty.
The Cincinnati Arts Association’s Weston Art Gallery in the Aronoff Center for the Arts announces a return to its original Artist Studio Tours with North by Northside, a fun-filled springtime art event on Sunday, May 18, 2014.
Here is what the Cincinnati Art Museum has coming up in May: a conversation with Jennifer Purdum in the ARTiculate series on May 21, a book auction from the museum library with its preview on May 17 and bidding closing on May 18, and Art After Dark: Cincinnati Pride on May 30.
Art Beyond Boundaries Gallery invites you to a series of professional and creative development workshops and gallery talks by five established regional artists. The series will be held during Second Sunday on Main, a monthly OTR neighborhood festival.
