Ryan Snow’s six new minimalist paintings at the Frank Duveneck Arts & Cultural Center reward close looking by patient viewers. Snow holds a B.F.A. in painting and works as a designer, so it’s not a surprise that his subtle paintings incorporate the eleme
Artists are a lot like scientists: They interpret what they’ve gathered, creating solutions to problems or theories that pose more questions — in physical, visual form. This concept was the impetus for the current exhibition Form from Form: Art from Disc
When is a tiger not just a tiger? An eagle more than an eagle? When they're painted as messages about social and political conditions, philosophies about leadership and cultural values. Many of the meanings of these images from the Chinese Imperial Court
Even if you’ve never read it (or only read the CliffsNotes), Moby-Dick swims through the dark waters of the American psyche like the white whale that is the title’s namesake. hanks to Robert Wallace, an English professor at Northern Kentucky University a
Gnarled tree limbs arc above each entrance of downtown’s Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery. Lashed together with twine, the limbs create a web-like mass that spreads throughout the Weston’s lobby, soaring above in great domes, coiling around pill
At the turn of the 20th Century, when a woman's most acceptable occupation was motherhood, Bessie Potter Vonnoh succeeded professionally as a sculptor, flouting convention by focusing on a career instead of raising children. Her success as an independent
Historic home tours take over Cincinnati this weekend. Stop by “Upstairs, Downstairs,” a series of self-guided tours of architectural gems in the Beechcrest-Madison Road area of East Walnut Hills, from 1-5 p.m. Saturday and the Clifton House Tour on Sund
Some artists make work every single day, a ritualistic endeavor with cumulative results that often document the passage of time and the daily life of the artist. Everyday, an exhibition of art that centers in this kind of daily practice, is on view at th
Documentary photographer Cheryl Dunn doesn’t flinch from the gritty, difficult side of life, as suggested by the title of her current show Spit & Peanut Shells: American Pictures at Country Club gallery. Dunn is an incisive documentarian of what’s happen
Museum-goers will get the chance to explore the complexities of enigmatic art movements when Surrealism and Beyond: In the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Much of the work comes from the Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection, which the couple donated to the Israe