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Emily Hanako Momohara opens a new exhibition Islands, this Friday at PAC Gallery in East Walnut Hills. These works are based in the artist’s recent trip to Okinawa, Japan, to research her family history, where she discovered that many of the stories pass

Thunder-Sky Inc.'s current exhibition Hard Knocks: Art Without Art School features the work of 30 artists who, as the gallery explains, "could not go, did not go, chose not to go to, and/or dropped out of art school." Nearly 120 works are presented dense

The concept of "art as activism" is not a new one, but because the effects of art on society can be difficult to quantify, the conversation can sometimes be slippery and elusive. Enter Saad Ghosn, a local artist and activist who exhibits, curates and wri

This Friday the Art Academy of Cincinnati opens In Context, an exhibition of work by the school's four graduating artists in the Master of Arts in Art Education program. Adrian Vance Hawk, Jonathan Juravich, Lisa Kelley-Gerton and Kate Ungrund are art te

The Contemporary Arts Center has been hosting One Night: One Craft, a wildly popular crafts night on Monday nights all summer long. Each week, local artisans do demonstrations of crafts projects and those in attendance can try their hands at it. Some wee

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For a sexy summer day trip, get over to Columbus to see the Wexner Center for the Arts’s trio of erotically charged exhibitions before they come down on July 31. One of the three exhibits, Double Sexus, brings together work by Louise Bourgeois and Hans B

Phyllis Weston Gallery has recently opened two exhibitions, The Lyrical Modernist: Harry Reisiger (1922-2009) and Fragmenting the Landscape: Contemporary Work by Kim Flora and John Humphries. Reisiger studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati and there be

Newly opened at the Weston Art Gallery, the survey of 15 of Alison Crocetta's revelatory film and video works takes up the entire space for the entire summer (until Aug. 28), a rarity for the downtown gallery. A trio of her films is on view in the street

Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum has a reputation for high-concept thematic exhibitions packed with wit and humor. One of its most recent projects is CINCY GossipLip Weekly, a parody of a gossip rag dedicated to local art personalities. Over the past weeken

Ceramicist duo Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis combine the research ethics of historians with the forward-thinking innovation of technophiles. Using 3-D scanning technology, they create porcelain s

Just as we all start showing more skin in the oppressive heat of summer, Prairie in Northside brings us Body of Art, an exhibition that invites viewers to consider bodies — ours, the artists&rsq

It’s been a number of years since the Weston Art Gallery devoted the entirety of its exhibition spaces to a single artist, but dreamlike worlds that open up in Alison Crocetta’s films and

Summer days should be full of outdoor pleasures, artful experiences and activities that energize and relax. Northside serves all this up and more this Saturday with Art in the Park at Jacob Hoffner Park. From 11 a.m.-7 p.m. the park will be packed with a

Along with various readings, musical performances and art exhibitions, the Over-the-Rhine alternative space CS13’s programming is at its most interesting when they engage social practices with community projects. This Saturday kicks off several weeks of

Joey Versoza’s new solo exhibition, at West End’s Aisle gallery through June 24, is titled Do You Make Work? He answers his own question with just five pieces consisting of a number of digital prints, a projected video and two installations that make use

Lady Parts, an art show at Southgate House opening Friday, initially conjures Newport's sordid past of nude dance clubs and prostitution rings. Really, though, it is an all-woman exhibition that looks into the inner life of femininity and how it fuels ea

For several years now, the University of Cincinnati's Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition has been held annually at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center. The unconventional off-campus exhibition space always seems to get the artists out of their comfort zo

Just as summer blockbusters start rolling out at major cinemas around town, Museum Gallery/Gallery Museum offers us a sprightly alternative. This Friday they present Two Minute Video Festival, a one-night screening of two-minute video works from around t

Mary Baskett is a local treasure whose visionary tastes in avant garde fashion are celebrated far beyond of our city's burgeoning fashion culture. As part of the second year of Cincinnati Fashion Week, the Cincinnati Art Museum is hosting Tea with Mary o

This Friday, Miller Gallery opens two new exhibitions featuring the abstract paintings of Jolie Harris and the Emo stylings of Valery Milovic. Harris’ paintings are revealed as an expression of spirituality. Like the work of the Abstract Expressionists s