Archives from 2009

In what was a tough year economically for the visual arts, Cincinnati museums managed to not only put on some excellent shows but to draw respectable crowds to see them. The Cincinnati Art Museum may have had to put its expansion plans on hold as the rec

Alec Baldwin charms in Nancy Meyers' latest romantic comedy

Film distribution gets a shake-up via video-on-demand

Cincinnati helped save iconic Modernist mural, but wasn't able to keep it

Cincinnati’s King Records had another good year in 2009, even though the pioneering R&B/Soul/Country label for all practical purposes left the city — and ceased having any meaningful impact on popular music — when its founder, Syd Nathan, died in 1968.

The cast of colorful and eccentric characters populating downtown and Over-the-Rhine will inflate by one this Friday when performance artist Jimmy Kuehnle comes to town. At first, he’ll look pretty normal just before his performance starts at noon Friday

Performance artist Jimmy Kuehnle and his mobile, inflatable art invade Cincinnati

Dec. 9 • Southgate House

Tags: Music News, Southgate House, Nickel Creek

Thirty years after The Who concert tragedy, some say a memorial is overdue

Tags: Music News, Riverfront Coliseum, The Who

The Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, an international organization that seeks to preserve, maintain and educate the public about all existing structures by the iconic American architect, will be holding its national conference in Cincinnati next

Documentary recounts the career of Gertrude Berg

Enjoy thought-provoking visual art this holiday season

Chuck Prophet heads south for new album

Tags: Music Feature, Southgate House, Chuck Prophet

Since Louisville’s 21c Museum Hotel has announced a planned expansion into downtown Cincinnati, the discussion has centered on two issues: What does snagging an award-winning boutique hotel mean to local economic development and what will happen to the l

Tags: Visual Arts, Contemporary Arts Center, 21c Museum Hotel, Jay Bolotin, Laura Lee Brown, Steve Wilson

Olivier Assayas delivers a family drama of great depth and power

Tags: Movies & TV, Juliette Binoche, Olivier Assayas

Richard Curtis' '60s tale is superficial and unrevealing

Tags: Movies & TV, Philip Seymour Hoffman

This is the final weekend to see a lovely, delicately conceived show of Built Drawings by George Schmidt, a native Cincinnatian now living in Brooklyn, at the Art Academy of Cincinnati's Pearlman Gallery. The show consists of 26 sculptures, drawings, oil

Hopefully, by the time you read this (or shortly thereafter) the Cincinnati Art Museum will have opened 'Imperishable Beauty: Art Nouveau Jewelry,' the twice-delayed exhibition of more than 100 turn-of-20th-Century pieces from the finest American and Eur

Tags: Visual Arts, Cincinnati Art Museum, Aaron Betsky

Shake It releases tribute series to Southern Soul marvel Eddie Hinton

Tags: Music Feature, Shake It Records, Greg Dulli, Drive-By Truckers, Darren Blase

Matt Morris, one of the city's busier contemporary artists as well as a CityBeat contributing arts writer, opens his newest show, an installation called Pairs Well With, featuring works on facial tissue paired with small objects meant to reply to those t