Tom Hawley and Doug Fiely exhibit at the Springs Gallery By Jud Yalkut Two Ohio artists, Tom Hawley and Doug Fiely, with fanciful realizations in their respective mediums, are displaying their creations at the Springs Gallery in Yellow Springs through Dec. 14. In this unique encounter, we see the decorative wood crafting of Hawley with [...]
Paul Catanese exhibit lights up WSU galleries By Jane A. Black What happens when you mix pixels and printmaking with Laurie Anderson with Joseph Cornell? You get something like the current show at the Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries at Wright State University, which is a solo exhibition by Chicago-based artist Paul Catanese. Several bodies [...]
Local woman demonstrates how non-smokers are being diagnosed with lung cancer every day By Caroline Shannon-Karasik Remember those horrifying photos of charred, worn lungs that our middle school health teachers liked to use to make a point during non-smoking lessons? Mention lung cancer and that’s the image most people conjure. And even though it is [...]
It’s time to bring out the heavy equipment By Jane A. Black While you are looking about during October’s First Friday art hop, be sure to head over to the corner of Fifth Street and Patterson Boulevard from 5 to 9 p.m. to see printmaking in action. From the Oregon District, walk west under the [...]
Digital montage and geometric repetition at Rosewood By Jud Yalkut The two artists in concurrent exhibitions at the Rosewood Gallery through October 21 deal with fragments and impressions from nature that synthesize into new visionary forms. Gary Mesa-Gaido merges “multiple digital images to create one panoramic photograph” and ceramicist Minkyu Lee explores the “geometric [...]
Surprising information about how your skin is affected by your everyday life By Caroline Shannon-Karasik I’m what people call fair. What they mean is, “Girl, why don’t you get a tan?” I’ve never been one of those people who walk away with a nice sun-kissed glow from a day at the beach. In fact, I’m [...]
Women in art come Out Of The Shadows at Miami Art Museum By Jud Yalkut Unlike most exhibitions which feature women artists, whether from a feminist or political point of view, the new and massively important Out of the Shadows: The Rise of Women in Art at the Miami University Art Museum in Oxford, Ohio [...]
Keeping your head warm is just a bonus By Jane A. Black Pilgrim, Santa, Robin Hood, witch, cowboy, pirate, cop. Can you picture them in your head? On your head? Their hats, I mean. Without the topper, the costume is simply incomplete; the distinctive character is obscured. Without the pointy black hat, how do you [...]
Sure it’s a salad, but how healthy is it … really? By Caroline Shannon-Karasik I love food. I love cooking and baking and, naturally, eating. And as someone who likes to try new recipes, the dishes I make can range from kind of complicated to you’re-going-to-need-three-hours-to-pull-this-one-off complicated. But I also love simple dishes, ones that [...]
The great mystery of the curatorial By Jane A. Black If you look at and think about art, I’d venture to guess you’ve wondered, at least once or twice, why the heck the object before you was chosen for display. Chances are, the reason remained inscrutable. Who chose the art is one of the details [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup By Megan Garrison The FDA recently rejected a bid to officially change the name of high [...]
Walker was Victorious in Wisconsin Because His Reforms Worked By David H. Landon The folks at MSNBC had a bad [...]
It Takes More than a Tweet By Rana Odeh The victory of Republican Governor Scott Walker over Milwaukee Democrat Mayor [...]
What are the Consequences of Recall Election in Wisconsin? Last Tuesday, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) prevailed in an unusual [...]
Obama’s Support of Same Sex Marriage Will Cost Him Swing States By David H. Landon By Election Day, the President’s [...]
President Obama Announces Support of Same-Sex Marriage Most pundits believe that this Presidential election will be decided on the issue [...]
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