Peeking inside Kim Krause's solo exhibition at the Art Academy's Pearlman Gallery, Chronos/Tropos, you see color before concept, "playful chaos" before mythology, imagination before history.   

Stephen Radich, a New York City art dealer, passed away Dec. 18. His death got me thinking about art and politics, censorship and the potential of visual art. In 1966, Radich opened a solo show fo  

It started in high school and lasted about 10 years: Every December I would bundle myself in blankets and read A Christmas Carol to get me in the wintery spirit. Something about Dickens´ tal  

COUNTRY CLUB, the new gallery in the West End with the capricious name, the tongue-in-cheek logo and two directors -- doppelgangers, ostensibly -- who come across as antitheses of urbane contempo  

One of the current exhibitions at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC), Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler: America Starts Here, has all the (assumed) prerequisites of a great contemporary art show. The w  

    

Downtown Cincinnati sits between two architectural developments that seem completely at odds: the Cincinnati Art Museum's expansion, which the Rotterdam-based firm Neutelings Riedijk Architects   

This weekend marks the sixth anniversary of the popular Clifton art fair STREETSCAPES, which allows local artists to re-create masterworks in chalk onto Telford Avenue. To give it a moniker like   

Late in May, outrageous hats brightened the 1200 block of Elm Street as their wearers stepped into Memorial Hall for a program honoring the memory of sculptor, teacher and notable hat-wearer Patr  

Time-honored landscape paintings aren't my forte, as far as art goes. But art with a story is. Landscape painting in the Hudson River School tradition and a riveting tale come together in the sec  

Urban sprawl has led to some of the saddest architecture in 100 years: strip malls, hulking drive-thru restaurants, neighborhoods begging for sidewalks. This lolling lifestyle can only be identif  

Outsider art is controversial. Some theorists claim that "pure" outsider art can only be made when the artist hasn't been exposed to art history or contemporary culture. But that belief assume  

THE CARNEGIE VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER aims, to quote its mission statement, "to utilize our historic building to create a leading arts organization. To this end we will provide a venue for  

I was driving down Central Parkway one morning last week when I noticed Mayor Mark Mallory. He was standing with a group of people in an Over-the-Rhine cranny, behind an official-looking podium a  

This year marks the 40th anniversary of SUMMERFAIR, one of largest and most popular arts festivals in the Cincinnati area. Beginning on June 1 at 2 p.m., over 300 artists of all media will conver