A Room with a View
Back Again: Figurative Painting
Onstage: Krisit
Art: Continuity and Change: The Return to Figurative Painting
Art: Review: Massive/Intrinsic
Sculpture exhibition flourishes at Mac's Farm and Sculpture Center
0 Comments · Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Can a big idea -- actually a massive one -- change its location and still carry its weight? That is to say, can the Massive sculpture exhibitions we knew in the great, glorious interiors of SSNOV
Art: Review: Julian Stanczak
Renowned painter returns for CAC exhibition and some 'tubing'
0 Comments · Tuesday, August 28, 2007
Julian Stanczak, accompanied by his wife Barbara and their son Krzys, was in town for the recent opening of Julian Stanczak at the Contemporary Arts Center (CAC). When I talked to Stanczak there
Art: and People
Celebrating the anniversary of the Phyllis Weston-Annie Bolling Gallery
0 Comments · Wednesday, August 1, 2007
It's been a year since the Phyllis Weston-Annie Bolling Gallery opened on the busy stretch of Madison Road that still carries the historic neighborhood name O'Bryonville. "It feels like home,
Art: Review: Saul Steinberg Illuminations
Timeless observations parade around at the CAM
0 Comments · Monday, July 30, 2007
Saul Steinberg, who seemed to draw the way the rest of us breathe -- a visceral element in being alive -- took Cincinnati by surprise in 1948. He's doing it again in 2007. When Steinberg's 60-
Art: Review: Leaving the 21st Century
Joseph Winterhalter maps the mind at Weston Art Gallery
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 11, 2007
Joseph Winterhalter calls his current exhibition at the Weston Art Gallery Leaving the 21st Century. Leaving? Whoa, we just got here, didn't we? Winterhalter, whose affinity toward modern Fren
Art: Wearable Art
Mary Baskett talks about Japanese design
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Mary Baskett is wearing an Issey Miyake dress. It has vertical gathers along the side seams in a most interesting way. She's also wearing an asymmetrical Miyake necklace. A slightly askew look i
Art: Review: Genius in Marble
Hiram Powers' sculpture lights up the Taft Museum of Art
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
Now that the 21st century is off and running, why should we care about white marble statues, which are so 19th century, right? Because they're cool, very cool. And sexy. Example? See Hiram Powe
Lisa Watts -- Good Roots: Writers Reflect on Growing Up in Ohio
0 Comments · Wednesday, May 23, 2007
What is it about Ohio? It nurtures able writers, as this book makes clear, but then they leave. Eudora Welty stayed in the same town, in fact the same house, for most of her brilliant writing life
Books: Mid-Century Snapshot
Sarge Marsh's photos capture Cincinnati at its 'apex'
1 Comments · Wednesday, February 28, 2007
You wouldn't know the place. Mid-Century City: Cincinnati at the Apex shows us a Cincinnati full of zip, making things, confident of its role and, however wide-eyed at disasters like the 1937 flo
Film: Aging Gracefully
Cincinnati filmmaker takes on aging myths in new documentary
0 Comments · Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Cincinnati filmmaker Melissa Godoy sets out to discover how we can "stay whole against the assault of old age" in her new documentary, Do Not Go Gently. The film tackles a subject of increasing
