A Room with a View
Art: Art of the Scarf
Onstage: Krisit
Art: The Bold, The Beautiful and The Bizarre at The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center
0 Comments · Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center gets weird with The Bold, Beautiful and Bizarre. Monday-Saturday. Through Oct. 10.
Lady of the House
Julie Carpenter brings knowledge and enthusiasm to the venerable Betts House
0 Comments · Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Julie Carpenter is still young, but she thinks old is cool. A good thing, too, as her job makes her the public’s interface with the oldest brick house in Ohio, the Betts House Research Center at 416 Clark St., two blocks west of Music Hall.
State of the Arts: Reaching Out
Arts and culture organizations focus on educating and building new audiences
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 27, 2008
What's happening to the arts audience in Cincinnati? Is it the same group of stalwarts -- loyal and interested but inevitably growing older -- or is there an infusion of new people with new expectations? Outreach/education people in Cincinnati arts join CityBeat for a roundtable discussion.
Phyllis Weston-Annie Bolling show is bright and engaging
0 Comments · Sunday, August 10, 2008
Although burdened by a title that's a little too cute, Young at Art: Works on Paper by Emerging and Established Artists at Phyllis Weston-Annie Bolling Gallery is a bright and engaging show.
Cincinnati Art Museum unearths some gems from its vaults
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 30, 2008
For the most fun you'll have at an exhibition all summer, don't miss Long Time No See, the grand grabbag of more than 100 objects the Cincinnati Art Museum
Art: Review: Exodus/Elegy
Anthony Becker's work is pervaded with sorrow, countered by light
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 9, 2008
With Exodus/Elegy, sculptor Anthony Becker meets the challenges of the difficult street-level space at the Weston Art Gallery in an exhibition well worth seeing.
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Books: A World Away
Local writer Basil Balian recalls his Iraqi upbringing in new memoir
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 21, 2008
The Iraq that lives in Basil Balian's memory is nothing like the one we see on the evening news. It is a place where, within the constrictions of society's rules, a boy growing up is both safe a
Art: Review: From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper
Taft Museum highlights American watercolor masterpieces
0 Comments · Monday, April 14, 2008
From Winslow Homer to Edward Hopper: American Watercolor Masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum, now on view at the Taft, is a pleasure from start to finish. Despite the title (thought up by a ma
A Good Woman (Review)
Dorothy Weil (Plain View Press)
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Ever wonder "How could that have happened?" when evening news has a story of some terrible event carried out by an ordinary person, somebody who could live down the street from you, a perfectly nice person never given to mayhem? Cincinnati writer Dorothy Weil tells us how things like that can happen in her new novel, which takes place mostly in Walnut Hills.
Art: Review: LeWitt x 2
CAM and CAC combine for complementary Sol LeWitt exhibitions
0 Comments · Wednesday, March 19, 2008
An artist's ideas bristle on every wall and even on some floors at the dual Sol LeWitt exhibitions now showing at Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM). Behind LeWitt X
