Starr Review

The Sensorium of Sight: "The Blind Photographer"

2016-10-12T10:29:00.000-07:00

The Blind Photographer: 150 Extraordinary Photographs from Around the World, edited by Julian Rothenstein and Mel Gooding, published by Princeton Architectural Press, 2016. When the Princeton Architectural Press offered me a copy of The Blind Photographer: 150 Extraordinary Photographs from Around the World I leaped at the chance

Aminah Robinson's Presidential Suite, 2016

2016-10-01T13:02:00.001-07:00

Aminah Brenda Lynn Robinson, Hot Boiling Sun, watercolor on paper, study. Photo courtesy of Hammond Harkins Galleries "Hot Boiling Sun comin' down on me," is what Aminah Robinson wrote on this watercolor study for a the much larger work, Hot Boilin' Sun. So much of what characterizes Robinson's enduring hold on us is condensed into this single sheet. Look at this woman's right arm, how

"Summer Ponds—New Work by Betsy DeFusco" at the Ohio State Faculty Club

2016-09-20T17:14:00.000-07:00

How lovely to have a backyard pond like Betsy Furlong DeFusco does, with time to contemplate its inspiration on canvas, in color. "It's very relaxing to sit and watch the fish swimming around endlessly in a swirl of color, and I soon became engaged in seeing a whole world of activity in a tiny body of water. I am constantly inspired by the different worlds in nature and by the act of painting

A Group Improvisation by the Tone Road Ramblers

2016-09-06T14:44:00.001-07:00

This is a long-awaited opportunity for me to write about the Tone Road Ramblers when readers can experience one of their improvisations without its being through the abstraction of prose only. The video comes to us with thanks to Eric Mandat. It can also be viewed on YouTube. Morgan Powell As it’s currently constituted, the personnel of the Tone Road Ramblers are: Morgan Powell and

I Reconsider the Necessity of Criticism

2016-08-22T10:33:00.000-07:00

Ray Sasaki speaks trumpet The work entailed by running a young publishing company has been so all-consuming that I concluded a few months ago that I could no longer devote time to writing Starr Review: that I was overwhelmed and responsible to my authors were sufficient reasons to give it up. I didn’t mention my growing skepticism that it made much of a difference one way or the other

Of Ugly Ducklings and Contemporary Art

2016-04-27T10:40:00.000-07:00

The "swan song" brings to mind a silly image of feathered magnificence deflated into flaccid, supine tubing. Perhaps it's the logical end of a creature that begins life as a flinching ugly duckling. Still, the swan's song was originally believed to be surpassingly beautiful because swans were thought to be silent until the end. Matt Kish, Beavercreek, Ohio. © Feinknopf

"High Style:" Couture and Attitude in Twentieth Century Fashion at the Cincinnati Art Museum

2016-01-17T17:32:00.004-08:00