A month ago, during Arte Desobediente Exhibition, I encountered for the first time an artwork by Kerstin Imhoff that has remained with me ever since. It was a visceral piece from her ongoing Bloodline series: a hyperrealistic red vulva rendered in wax-like texture through 3D printing, encircled by a Catholic rosary terminating in a bronze cross. The work was at once devotional and confrontational; an image suspended between martyrdom, sexuality, political violence, and feminine embodiment...
Duck Tape sculptures celebrate America 250 at Washington Park, made by Cincinnati art students and local artists this May.
Cincinnati Art Museum hosts a May gallery talk exploring current exhibitions with curators and public engagement.
Nearly fifty etchings by Rembrandt, on loan from the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam, at the Taft Museum of Art.
Cincinnati Art Museum hosts Art After Dark in May with performances, themed tours, and late-night gallery access.
Over forty colorful court paintings from 17th-19th century India, organized around the theme of longing.
Ayana Ross presents seven figural paintings at the Taft Museum as the 2026 Duncanson Artist-in-Residence.
The solo exhibition Amazonia, opening on May 22, brings together a body of work produced by Julia out of her sustained engagement with the Shipibo Indigenous community of the Peruvian Amazon. The show is structured around four groups of pieces and combines watercolor and ink on paper, embroidered textile work, installation, and cyanotype. Together, the pieces operate as a series of visual reflections on the use of medicinal plants, the experience of the Amazonian "dieta," the artist's family inheritance, and her condition as a migrant.
I suppose that waking up to find the night has birthed a new Banksy is, by now, almost routine. This time, however, something is different. He has literally moved up a step. He has planted a life-size sculpture in one of the most heavily guarded spaces in London. No witnesses.
The piece appeared in the early hours of Wednesday at Waterloo Place, an avenue in central London halfway between Trafalgar Square and Buckingham Palace.
Creative, Multi-tasking “It’s been one of those days when everything went opposite to what I expected,” says David Knight, Director of Exhibitions and Collections at Northern Kentucky University, as he sits down at his desk in the office adjacent to the gallery. He has been presiding over NKU art, in its differing incarnations, for about twenty years. “On second thought,” he contradicts himself, “actually, it’s been an on...
Semantics opened Namaz Khaneh (house of prayer in Farsi) on Saturday, January 8; the first solo show by promising young Cincinnati artist Sheida Soleimani. The permanently semi-finished gallery space at Semantics serves as a good venue for this work which consists of a series of images showing the artist's own roughly completed small-scale constructions. The greenish yellow tone of the walls of these small tableaux almost...
On January 7, Aaron Cowan wrapped up a respectable exhibition of new paintings at Aisle Gallery. The works on display –some exquisite, some ordinary- were predicated on an elaborate mapping mechanism developed by Cowan. Daily activity was collated, categorized, and compressed into a system of color codes deployed across the surface of his supports in amounts corresponding to said activity; or so I’m told. Artists have a funny...
Somewhere between Salzburg and the history of postwar German art, Georg Baselitz died yesterday at 88. His gallery announced it on Thursday. The family stated that he passed 'in peace'. The cause was not made public.
Baselitz was born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, a village in Saxony, under the name Hans-Georg Kern. In the first years of his life, during the war, four thousand tonnes of bombs fell on his village...
I have known for several days. We waited for the foundation’s official publication, where it is formally announced that Leticia Sánchez Toledo has been awarded once again. This time, by the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation.
As many know, Leticia is a figurative visual artist who works primarily in oil on canvas. Through its decision, the foundation supports one of the projects she currently has in development.
There is something bitterly ironic, and in some way unjust, in the posthumous fate of William Blake. An extraordinary poet and engraver, he spent his life defending imagination as a sacred faculty, denouncing slavery, and dreaming of a spiritual Jerusalem on earth. He has nevertheless ended up recast, in the contemporary imagination, as a numen, or tutelary spirit, of evil. His name and his images appear tattooed on the skin of serial killers, whispered into the ears of victims in television series...
Google used I/O 2026 to describe the largest change to Search in decades. AI Mode now has Gemini 3.5 Flash as its default model, and Google says the feature has passed one billion monthly users. The search box itself is being rebuilt around AI, with space for longer prompts, suggestions that help shape questions, and inputs that can include text, images, files, videos, and Chrome tabs.
The change moves Search away from the old rhythm of typing keywords, scanning blue links, and opening pages one by one. Users can ask follow-up questions from AI Overviews, keep context across a conversation, and let Search build custom responses in real time. Google also announced information agents that monitor the web for changes, booking agents for local services, and mini-app style tools generated inside Search.
The practical effect is simple. Search is becoming a place where answers, summaries, comparisons, monitoring, and actions happen before the open web gets a visit. For publishers, stores, and services that depend on human clicks, the change hits the entry point. If Google handles the task inside Search, the page becomes background infrastructure.
OpenAI says an internal reasoning model has disproved a long-running conjecture in discrete geometry, the planar unit distance problem first posed by Paul Erdos in 1946. The question asks how many pairs of points in a plane can sit exactly one unit apart. For decades, square-grid constructions were treated as close to optimal. OpenAI's model found an infinite family of arrangements that beats that expectation.
The announcement lands after a damaging 2025 episode, when OpenAI overstated Erdos-related results that were already known. This time, the company published the proof and companion remarks from outside mathematicians, including Noga Alon, Tim Gowers, Arul Shankar, Jacob Tsimerman, and Thomas Bloom. Their responses give the claim real weight while formal peer review continues, shifting the story from company boast to scrutinized mathematical claim by experts.
The signal is in the technical route. The model linked a planar geometry question to algebraic number theory, using tools far from the original picture of dots and distances. If the proof survives review, it will be a concrete example of AI doing original work inside mathematical research.
BYD says its Blade Battery 2.0 and FLASH Charging system can bring an electric car from 10 percent to 70 percent in five minutes, and from 10 percent to 97 percent in nine. The company's March technical release describes a 1,500 kW charger, a new ion-transport system, and an electrolyte layer optimized for higher ionic conductivity and faster mobility. Interesting Engineering reported on May 18 that BYD has moved flash charging from laboratory benchmark toward mass-market competition in China, where CATL, Chery, and Tesla are now being pushed to make electric refueling feel as routine as filling a fuel tank.
The decisive detail sits inside the battery, not at the charging station. BYD says the Flash-Flow electrolyte uses AI-driven precision optimization, while earlier reporting on BYD's work with ByteDance Seed described models that screen electrolyte formulations by predicting density, viscosity, and ionic conductivity. Artificial intelligence is entering chemistry as a tool for searching material combinations at speeds conventional trial-and-error cannot match. The singularity debate usually imagines a dramatic break, but this case points to a slower threshold. Machines help discover better materials, those materials improve machines, and the loop shortens the time between scientific search, industrial design, and public infrastructure.
