By Fran Watson

Another place to make that work public. The Greater Cincinnati Foundation (with deep pockets for good deeds) is moving to 4th and Elm streets in downtown Cincinnati. The ground floor will become exhibit space, the Foundation Gallery. Emerging regional artists who aren't affiliated with a gallery are who they plan to feature. TONI LABOITEAUX will chair the selection committee, and STEVEN W. CLARK, curator of KZF Gallery, will serve as coordinator. JOELLE DANIEL of Enjoy the Arts/START and Summerfair's KEVIN REYNOLDS also were instrumental in the formation of this venture.

Cincinnati summers are getting more and more artful. Along with the Big Pig Gig and Summerfair, "a really big shew" is in the offing by fiber artists from June 22-25. Like the photography convention last month, this will be spread all over the Tristate and involve nearly every gallery, museum and learning institution we've got. Crafts have been moving inexorably into the fine art field in recent years, with probably more participants than traditional media, insuring a big turn-out. Be part of CONVERGENCE 2000 by calling Paddy Thornburg, 513-531-9084 or Judy Dominic, 513-367-0710. And watch this space for further developments.

It's time to save money at the CINCINNATI ART MUSEUM, again. Their annual gift shop sale, May 1-7, means 25-75 percent off select merchandise. It's your chance for very early Christmas shopping at a bargain. Start checking that list.

Art comes from everything, including the Internet, so it's no surprise that a March USA Today article concerns nine Whitney Biennial exhibitors who are Internet artists, or "I-artists." Lew Baldwin, one of the nine, says in the article that young people today are not as interested in traditional art as in "interactive buttons, sounds and links." Check out www.whitney.org to see the screens, which are the art itself. You'll also find the Web site addresses of all nine artists. The exhibit runs through June 4.

The same USA Today article contained another statistical gem from The Art Newspaper: The number of blockbuster shows (those attracting 200,000 or more viewers), has more than doubled since 1996, prompting at least one museum (Denver) to approve the building of a $62-million addition to house nothing but blockbusters. And a former editor once told me, "Nobody cares about art."

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