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!