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| ArtSpike Magazine was founded in 2002 by Arie Vandenberg, Cincinnati native & entrepreneur. With the help and dedication of many people, the print magazine served as an outlet for the visual arts, creative writing, poetry and opinion. Published bi-weekly and circulated throughout Greater Cincinnati, it has a total run of 41 issues from June 2002 through February 2004. It's large format afforded us a chance to feature a different visual artist in the centerfold of every issue. |
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• Hidden Gems, New Exhibit at Annie Bolling by Deena Walker Williams | | | | | | | | | | | Tucked inside a shopping center in Oakley is one of the newer art venues in town. Opened about a year and a half ago, The Annie Bolling Gallery is housed inside the multifunctional M. Willis Interiors. The Gallery's namesake and director, Annie Bolling, previously of Closson's Gallery, has found a niche exhibiting and promoting art locally. Bolling, along with gallery administrator Bree Lehman, is actively encouraging and developing a space that entices a younger crowd's interest; all the while ably accommodating the typical art patron with higher end pieces. | | | • Film for the Dimensionally Challenged: Indigo by Alan Jozwiak
• Sex, Secrets and Paintings: Girl with a Pearl Earring by Peter M Carson | | | | | | | | | | | Dutch master Johannes Vermeer's painting, Girl With a Pearl Earring, was dubbed the "Mona Lisa of the North" when it was rediscovered in the late nineteenth century; and like her Italian counterpart, Vermeer's model has been the subject of endless speculation or, if you like, gossip among the kinds of art historians who get physically aroused by such discussions. In her novel of the same name, Tracy Chevalier took the art historians' wet dream and tarted it up to appeal to the "bodice ripper" crowd, the commercial success of which was all but prescient. | • Time for a Lesson by Jeanette McClellan | | | | | | | | | | | Every once in a while comes along the opportunity to do something that will change your life. Sometimes, that something will change, or even save, the life of another. Last spring, 18 students at the University of Cincinnati College of Law had such an opportunity, and they accepted. These students dedicated themselves to helping Ohio inmates prove their innocence. Together with professor Mark Godsey and a slew of supporters, these individuals make up the first group of students involved with the Ohio Innocence Project. | • Why ARE these People Screaming? Understanding Opera by Lynn Rene Bayley | | | | | | | | | | | It is with both courage and trepidation that I'd like to summarize the 400-year history of opera in a single article, for no other reason than it remains one of the most misunderstood art forms. Every time I mention opera to non-aficionados, I either get blank stares or, "Oh, I just LOVE opera! I have every Charlotte Church record ever made!" Much as I'd like to smile at such misunderstandings, they leave me feeling sad because opera really has so much to offer. Perhaps the best place to start is to draw a visual parallel. Opera is to music what a giant fresco or wall mural is to an 11 x 16" portrait. It is a vast canvas, a panorama on which the creator has lavished all the care and thought and decorative details he or she can think of in presenting a story in music as a sort of allegory. | | • Nearly Preaching to the Choir by Natalie Corzine | | | | | | | | | | | After 30 years as an activist in the social justice movement, Holly Near is looking for a change. A regime change that is. Near’s main focus between now and the November election is to unite what she calls a "large, hidden opposition" to the Bush administration. She hopes to use her music to introduce like-minded liberals and to "help them become visible to one another" and to encourage them to speak out against the current administration. As she puts it, she plans to "sing to the choir." | • Viva Pearlene! by Lindsay Caron | | | | | | | | | | | Double-decker guitar action as a guest musician rides the shoulders of a friend amidst the scattered fallen mic stands, tossed beer bottles and other chaotic debris. A chick in high-heeled boots and short skirt crawling on all fours, blindly grasping random audience members as she screams, then murmurs and pants into the microphone. One bad-ass hottie rocking out on the bass wearing fishnets and four-inch heels. These visions are indicative of what you’ll see – and feel – at a Pearlene/Viva La Foxx show. | | • Saying Goodbye to a Friend: A Tribute to Albert Kinnett by Will Toedtman | | | | | | | | | | | Local Jazz musicians and fans gathered at the Blue Wisp to remember and pay tribute to Albert Kinnett, who passed away December 2nd at the age of 74 after battling cancer for nearly 11 years. Kinnett had been a fixture at the Wisp since the late ’80s when he began playing solo piano to warm up audiences before groups took the stage in the evenings. | • The Scene: Eroticartistic Things to DO on Valentine’s Day by Brian Gladue | | | | | | | | | | | Bad karma or just plain bad luck, but this year Valentine’s Day is on a Saturday. Ordinarily that might be a good thing, since people can now go full blast ALL OUT and celebrate V-Day in wild style with no following weekday demands. But astute (and sober) calendar geeks will note that if Saturday is the 14th, then the day before is … yep! Friday the 13th. | | | • Ask Art by Art Broshure
• Necessary Things by Kevin Necessary
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