Workout @ FERALMADE

Weird Workout

Friday, January 30, 7:30-12 pm

FERALMADE (4573 Hamilton Avenue)

I just recently learned about FERALMADE and I have to say I'm definitely intrigued. It is simultaneously an art gallery, literary magazine and printshop. It was started by Cincinnati natives with varying credentials (film makers, artists, photographers, etc.) This Friday they are celebrating the release of the 4th volume of their magazine Milk Money with a party at their gallery featuring various artists.

Their website: http://www.feralmade.com/

Milk Money site: http://www.milkmoneymag.com/index.html

Last Chance for Semantics

(above: Letter 200 by Heather Calcagno)

"100%: A Year in Happiness"

Work by Heather Calcagno

January 3-31

Semantics (1107 Harrison Ave.)

This weekend is also your last chance to check out the aforementioned exhibit at Semantics, one of the longest "co-operative" and "alternative exhibition spaces" in the city. The gallery is open Saturdays from 12-4 and by appointment.

Check out http://www.myspace.com/semanticsgallery

and Calcagno's personal site http://www.hcalcagno.com/

Take a Walk at Final Friday

Final Friday

Friday, January 30, 6-10 pm

North Main and Pendelton

Free

As per usual, the last Friday of every month there is a Final Friday gallery walk downtown in historic Pendelton and north Main Street. Soak in art, vintage and modern furniture, and design displays while enjoying cocktails and hors d'oeuvres at all of these fabulous urban establishments. Check out http://www.irhine.com/index.jsp?page=finalfriday for a printable map and more information.

A Fashion Frenzy

(above: Two-Piece Dress worn by Swoosie Kurtz as Madame de Volanges in the film Dangerous Liaisons, 1988.Set about 1760. Costumes designed by James Acheson; directed by Stephen Frears. Printed silk, trimmed with metallic lace braid, silk flowers, and lace. Petticoat and stomacher of shot silk. )

Fashion in Film: Period Costumes for the Screen

January 31-April 26

The Taft Museum

Free for members, $12 for adults, $10 for students & seniors, $4 children

It seems that the fashion as art concept has taken off in Cincinnati lately. This is perhaps indicative of contemporary art culture over all, in which the boundaries between film, performance, and traditional art media are continually being blurred. Lately, there has been The Future of Fashion Photography Exhibit at Sandra Small, the Disrobing the Victorian Lady lecture at the CAM, and now there will be a Fashion in Film exhibit at the Taft. Although the fashion as fine art is certainly not a new idea, it is fun to compare the different ways in which all of theses shows explore this concept.

This Saturday the Taft will open the national exhibit "Fashion in Film" to the public. Inspired in part by Oscar season, the show displays four decades of film costume. The show is also meant to emphasize the way in which famous period films, such as Titanic, worked to created historically accurate costumes.

CAM's Seperate Sphere

(above: a dress designed by Charles Frederick Worth for Elizabeth of Austria, Franz Xavier Winterhalter, 1865)

Disrobing the Victorian Lady

12:00-1:00 pm, lecture in the Great Hall

1:00-2:00 pm, lunch at the Terrace Cafe

$20 for lecture and lunch ($18 for Women's Committee members)

$10 for lecture

Cincinnati Art Museum

If you were dismayed that you missed the CAM's "A Separate Sphere" exhibit in 2005/2006, you will be excited to learn that they are hosting a lecture about Victorian fashion this afternoon. Fashion Arts and Textiles Curator Cynthia Amneus will speak about the elaborate and fussy fashions of this era. As this was time of great sexual repression, dresses at this time also had to follow strict cultural conventions. If you have the day off it would be an excellent opportunity to learn about the unique fashions of this era (haute couture was started by Charles Frederick Worth at this time) and enjoy a fabulous lunch at the Terrace Cafe.

Visionary Exploration of Matisse & Picasso

Matisse/ Picasso: A Visionary Exploration

The Cincinnati Art Museum

January 29-April 16

Visionaries & Voices is an organization devoted to representing artists with disabilities. This upcoming show is to feature works inspired by the famous artists Matisse and Picasso. As general admission to the CAM is free, this show would certainly be worth checking out.

Through the Looking Glass at Manifest

"Tama Hochbaum: Looking Through the Glass"

Opening: Friday, January 23, 6-9 pm.

Show: January 23-February 20

MANIFEST (2727 Woodburn Ave)

As Manifest never disappoints, I am sure that this show will be both insightful and innovative. Hochbaum has assembled a series of digital prints of architecture and landscape viewed through a window. As the show description suggests, the premise is perhaps a metaphor for the way the artist views the visual world around him. Be sure to visit the show yourself to draw your own personal conclusions. Visit http://www.manifestgallery.org/index.html for more information about this incredible gallery.

Positively Aging Well

"Positively Ninety"
Opening: Saturday January 24, 6-9 pm.
Show: January 24-March 14
Kennedy Heights Art Center

Perhaps we are all scared, at least subconsciously, about what will happen as we age. After witnessing her mother's dementia, Connie Springer sought to answer this question. So she spoke to several "nonagenarians" of the "Positively 90" generation and learned that people do, in fact, live well and prosper well into their nineties. Her show consists of the collected photographs and narratives from her research.

Simply Speaking About Live Music

Red Tree Art Gallery & Coffee Shop

Live Music- Singer/ Songwriter Scott Metcalf

Friday, January 23, 7:30-9:30 pm

Simply Speaking

January 5- February 7

Unfortunately the opening reception for the Simply Speaking show, featuring works by Joel Blazer, Camille Cier, Jessica Wolf, Jessica Roller, and Arynn Blazer, has already come and gone. The show is still on display though and I would highly recommend checking it out. Since they have live music this evening, it would be the perfect time to do so. As always, there is no cover charge and so it would be easy to pop in and enjoy some music while enjoying some coffee/tea and basking in the wonderfully chill ambiance.

If you can't make it tonight, I highly recommend venturing to Red Tree on a boring Saturday/ Sunday afternoon. It's free, there is always incredible work displayed and it is important to support cool local coffee shops. Visit http://www.redtreegallery.net/.

January's Hip Picks

(Genetta McLean, Bartlet II at Eisele Gallery of Fine Art)

For Art Investors: Cincinnati Art Galleries' "Panorama of Cincinnati Art XXIII"

Best Theme Event: Cincinnati Art Museum's "Art Through Five Glasses: The Jazz Age"

Best Gallery Show: "The Future of Fashion Photography" at Sandra Small Gallery

Best Weekday Event: Historical/Horror Film Series at CAC

Gallery You Should Visit ASAP: Eisele Gallery of Fine Art

Own a Piece of the Panorama of Cincinnati Art

(Paul Chidlaw, Landscape Listeners, 1900-1989)
Cincinnati Art Galleries
Panorama of Cincinnati Art XXIII
Currently Open

Although the benefit event is already over, many of the pieces are still up for sale. The show exhibits both a great deal of mastery and a "panorama" of work that is stylistically dissimilar. Artists represented include Paul Chidlaw, Frank Duveneck, Charles Salis Kaelin, and Edward Henry Potthast. I encourage you to scoop up one of these reasonably priced masterpieces.

Jazzin' It up @ the CAM

(photo still from The Great Gatsby, 1974)

Art Through Five Glasses: The Jazz Age
Saturday, January 24. 3 pm.
$10 general, $5 members. (reservations required)


As part of its Art in Five Glasses series, the CAM is hosting a Jazz-themed late afternoon event. Included are "Jazz Age" cocktails and "art from the Great Gatsby era." Although they do not announce which pieces will be on display, one anticipates that perhaps one of its famed Rookwood vases with art nouveau decoration may be included.

Fashion Photographs From the Future

The Future of Fashion Photography

Sandra Small Gallery (124 W. Pike Street Covington, KY 41011)

Opening Reception: January 16, 5:30-9:30 pm. (exhibit will most likely be up through February 27)

I have realized this morning that I have neglected to post information about galleries and events of the GREATER Cincinnati area. Covington, Ky, for example, has a vibrant art scene and is just a hop, skip and a jump away from Cincinnati proper. Check out http://www.covingtonarts.com/ ...

Photographers Jacob Fakheri (Dallas, Texas), Jacob Jymi Bolden (Cincinnati), and Brad Austin Smith (Cincinnati), will illustrate what the future of fashion could be. As described by their website, the Sandra Small Gallery exhibits "an eclectic mix of contemporary art by emerging and post-emerging artists ." At the very least, this event could be a wonderful preface to a Friday night spend in Covington's fabulous MainStrasse Village. (http://www.mainstrasse.org/entertainment)

Come & See the CAC

6:30 pm Come and See, Elem Klimov, 1985, 142 minutes

9 pm Masque of the Red Death, Roger Corman, 1964, 89 minutes

The Contemporary Arts Center

Members: free. Nonmembers: $7.50. Seniors $6.50. Students $5.50.

Perhaps taking its cue from the CAM, the CAC has launched a film series in conjunction with its current Discarded Spider exhibit. On the second Monday of each month, it will pair a horror film with a documentary (ostensibly the horror film is to get you to come and hopefully stay for the documentary?) This was all inspired by the exhibit's conceptual artist Carlos Amorales, whose work highlights the conventions of the horror genre in order to shed light on the everyday elements of horror and beauty around us.

This Monday:
Come and See features a character named "Teenager Florya" who joins a partisan group to fight the Nazis in Byelorussia. He ends up losing his colleagues and wondering through a land of pre-historic forests and man-made terror. Literary enthusiasts are sure to appreciate Masque of the Red Death, which is loosely based on to stories by Edgar Allen Poe. Film buffs can just sit back and critique the cinematography.

Double the Fun @ Weston Art Gallery

"Art" DOUBLE FEATURE: Weston Art Gallery/Contemporary Dance Theater

Friday, January 23, 7 pm

The Weston Art Gallery/ Contemporary Dance Theater

$17 for reception and performance

This double-header features large-scale glow in the dark paintings and dancers, actors and singers whose work addresses current social and political issues. Although the description of the event that they posted on facebook is brief, the show looks quite intriguing. At the very least, it could be a great beginning to a fabulous Friday night downtown.

Porsche’s 2005 Carrera GT Races to the CAM

The Cincinnati Art Museum

Porsche's 2005 Carrera GT

September 16-February 1, 2009

FREE

The Cincinnati Art Museum has wowed car enthusiasts with the ongoing series of cars they have displayed at the museum. Its aerodynamic nature allows it to reach high speeds and its utilization of the latest in car construction technology allow it to be both light-weight and sculptural. As admission to the regular museum is free, this is a must see!