For the past three years, Building Value has included a “designer challenge” element at their ReUse-apalooza fundraiser, which demonstrates the remarkable work that artists and creative types can make out of the materials the nonprofit acquires from various deconstruction jobs, donations and retail recycling projects.
A Room with a View
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Not many libraries can claim to be a room
with a view. The Mary R. Schiff Library of the Cincinnati Art Museum,
now in its new space and again open to the public, has a spectacular
one.
Reflections Eternal
The quintessential Patti Smith discusses Mapplethorpe, her time in Cincinnati and an upcoming Contemporary Arts Center exhibition and concert
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Both Smith and Mapplethorpe found their
place, of course, and became famous — she as a quintessential
alternative-rocker and he as one of the country’s top fine-art photographers.
Organically Grown
The Hilton Brothers' photography focuses on fresh and natural collaborations
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 8, 2013
The Hilton Brothers — photographers
Christopher Makos and Paul Solberg — have arrived in Cincinnati with
food on their minds. They don’t specify that it needs to be organic, but
it might as well be. The term pops up repeatedly as the New Yorkers
discuss their natural, open-ended approach to life, art and
collaboration.
Art Freaks Meet Geeks in Two Must-See Shows
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Two grand experiments fusing art, science and technology will be revealed Friday night.
'Falling' For Photos
Elena Dorfman exhibits her surreal photographs of quarries at Phyllis Weston Gallery
0 Comments · Tuesday, April 23, 2013
The huge stone quarries that hide in the
landscapes of Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky are strange things, monsters of
ruggedly carved-out negative space that — when abandoned and filled
with water — attract illicit swimmers and divers.
Patti Smith's CAC Show: A Mapplethorpe Tribute
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 17, 2013
In advance of last year’s FotoFocus
festival, probably the largest photography-related event in Cincinnati’s
history, I asked James Crump — the festival’s co-chair and then chief
curator/curator-at-large at Cincinnati Art Museum — if there wasn’t an
unspoken spirit hovering over the proceedings: Robert Mapplethorpe.
When Opportunity Knocks
At the helm of the local visual arts scene, Matt Distel explores new positions at Cincinnati Art Museum and The Carnegie
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 10, 2013
Matt Distel, an almost constant presence
in the Cincinnati art scene for the last couple of decades, suddenly
seems to be everywhere at once. But no, he’ll not be working three jobs
Visionaries and Voices: The Evolution of a Nonprofit Gallery
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Visionaries and Voices (V&V) has
experienced many changes in the decade since it was first incorporated
as a nonprofit organization...As the organization has evolved, so has its administrators’
approach to curating exhibitions.
'Capturing the Essence' Exhibits Gordon Baer's Rare Prints
0 Comments · Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Handsomely composed, deeply moving,
timeless or inextricably of their time and place; Gordon Baer’s
photographs, now on view at the Kennedy Heights Arts Center in a
career-spanning exhibition, are all of the above.
