On a recent afternoon, artist Thomas Condon busily finishes installing his Carnegie exhibition, All of Ever, behind locked doors. Condon, free on appeal after being sent to prison for taking photogr  

One of the most creative acts a person can do falls under the category of political activism. I'm talking about people like Shelley Stephens, who attended last week's rally for peace outside the Mu  

From across the street, the Cincinnati International Film Festival's Oct. 6 showing of the documentary film Adrift, about family members coping with the death of their father, looks to be a big hit.  

Beneath the Weston Art Gallery's four-story street-level space, a glass box that grabs the lion's share of attention on a busy downtown street corner, I Morti, a mesmerizing five-projector video in  

The best story during Cincinnati's recent Red Hot Weekend -- a heavily promoted series of downtown events built around the UC-Ohio State college football game, the last Reds series at Cinergy Field   

Fourteen black picture frames hang on a white wall just inside the Art Academy of Cincinnati's Chidlaw Gallery. It's a late August afternoon, and Art Club 2002 -- a group comprised of recent Univers  

Arie Vandenberg is a 35-year-old who hasn't received a sizable paycheck in more than two years. He could have worked for any number of corporations. Instead, he decided to stay in his hometown and p  

There have been countless works of art addressing the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and severely damaged the Pentagon, but I can't imagine how any of them will be   

One of my favorite summertime getaways are trips to Toronto. It's a quick and easy flight. There are plenty of affordable places to stay and no limit to interesting things to do. Canada is enough o  

I frequently walk past the girders and rising walls of the new home for the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) at Sixth and Walnut streets downtown and wonder: What art will come to this new building?   

Midway through the Arts Advocacy Initiative's (AAI) workshop on July 25, I walked out of the Aronoff Center's Jarson-Kaplan Theater with the intention of never going back to another AAI function. G  

On a day meant for swimsuits, eight teen-agers stand outside a Walnut Hills factory building holding paintbrushes and wearing air masks. The heat is brutal, but that doesn't curb their enthusiasm fo  

Ask any local Joe where one finds "high art," and he'll direct you to the Cincinnati Art Museum. Old and valuable are the determining factors that make an artwork worthwhile to many people. Everythi  

I watched and listened as mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade performed on the Music Hall stage July 6. It was an evening dress rehearsal for the Cincinnati Opera production of Dead Man Walking, and s  

Here's a familiar scene: A sprawling Midwestern city of nearly 2 million people, located on a large river. It's not Cincinnati. I'm describing St. Louis, my new home since August 2000. A career mov