Jannis Varelas’ exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center, Sleep, My Little Sheep Sleep, is a multi-media installation of exaggerated figures collaged together from banal materials, the first in a series of projects organized by guest curators from around the world.  

When I was growing up, the fact that Cincinnati was known as “Porkopolis” was not exactly a selling point for me. I vividly remember Bicentennial Commons at Sawyer Point opening in 1988 to much hullabaloo thanks to the flying pig sculptures near the entrance and being absolutely mortified with embarrassment that my hometown would choose to embrace its reputation as a haven for swine.  

If you’ve never visited one of Cincinnati’s ubiquitous artist gallery cum studio spaces, Essex Studios’ upcoming Art Walk: BLOOM exhibition should give you the perfect opportunity. While events   

How will the conceptually based installations of Kennedy Arts Center’s 2012 Ohio Arts Council Artist-In-Residence, Migiwa Orimo, look like inside the Kennedy Mansion — a Gothic-style home built in  

  The story of American art forger Mark A. Landis is a bizarre one: Over a 30-year period, Landis attempted to gift more than one hundred works to at least 50  

Manifest Creative Research Gallery and Drawing Center’s latest exhibition is the work of Travis Townsend in The Love Boat (abandoned), which is presented in conjunction with Out of the Gray, a group showing of works made using graphite.     

The Brighton arts district has been killing it lately, and this weekend’s monthly First Saturday art crawl offers three more exhibitions at independent artist-ran spaces for your art viewing pleasur