Rauh House Restoration Spurs More Modernism Preservation
How Patti Titchener Became Patti Astor and Made Art History
Andy Warhol Does Ohio
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 13, 2008
This fall, Andy Warhol is continuing to make his ubiquitous pop-art presence felt in Ohio, some 21 years after his death.
The Flowering of the Cincinnati Art Museum
0 Comments · Sunday, August 3, 2008
If you've been to Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) to view the current Long Time No See exhibition of objects usually in storage
Over-the-Rhine the Right Place for a Historic Tenement Museum
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Historic-house museums are great for a city -- places not just to learn about the past but also to see it meticulously preserved and brought to life. Cincinnati has some good ones: the Taft Museum o
The Balcony Is Open, and It's Really Lux
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 2, 2008
After all these years in decline, somebody has figured out a way to make the movie-theater balcony hip again. Not just hip, but -- to use the terminology of National Amusements, owner of a new Show
Branching Out at the Cincinnati Art Museum
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The perception too often is that Cincinnati has one specialized museum for contemporary art, the Contemporary Arts Center, and a bigger institution that focuses on everything else, the Cincinnati A
Art Movies Might Be Struggling, But Opera Movies Are Thriving
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, June 4, 2008
If you follow news about art/independent films, you know they're struggling. The "classics" divisions of the studios have been cutting back because of the softening economy, and it's the rare forei
How's This for a Campaign Issue: Blogs for Everyone!
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 21, 2008
A friend of mine, a Democrat who believes "free trade" has been a giveaway of American jobs with little to nothing in return, scoffs at those who say the solution is to retrain all those who have l
Raphaela Platow Brings Changes to CAC
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 7, 2008
When Zaha Hadid's Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art -- the first American museum designed by a woman and her first built project in the U.S. -- opened downtown five years ago thi
CAM's New, Offbeat Collection
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 23, 2008
For a 127-year-old institution, the Cincinnati Art Museum isn't resting on its laurels or on dated 19th-century notions of what constitutes fine art. If you've been there lately and seen the red Jag
The Action of Art: You should have been there
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, April 9, 2008
When I seek out new recommendations for music from the more knowledgeable, I'm often regaled with accounts of obscure live hybrids of music and art taking place in hip scenes across the world. One
Remembering Maggie Wenstrup
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Margaret "Maggie" Wenstrup passed away on March 3 at age 77. Since then, Cincinnati artists, curators, gallerists and friends have been honoring her life in art. Fortunately, even people who di
Mark Bradford, Genre Jumper
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 12, 2008
In the Vance-Waddell Gallery at the Cincinnati Art Museum, three enormous, swirling, silver-plated paintings by Los Angeles-based artist Mark Bradford shroud the space. The exhibition, Maps & Man
Final Friday Roundup
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Friday, February 29, 2008
Cincinnati's juicy little art pockets come alive this weekend for Final Friday; expect Over-the-Rhine's galleries to be plenty packed of notable work and spectators. The Nicholas Gallery (23 E.
Bodies Everywhere
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Last week I took my nephew William to the Cincinnati Art Museum. This is what he loved: the mummy in the classics gallery. "What is it?" he asked me. "A mummy." "A mommy?" he asked. "A
Dungeon Thud
Galleries, Artists, Etc.
0 Comments · Wednesday, January 30, 2008
You couldn't understand what Jimmy Baker and Nathan Tersteeg were saying to each other during their performance at the Weston Art Gallery Jan. 25. The booms and the chaos were too distracting, m
