Now and again, chance weaves a concurrence of circumstances that places us before a window opening onto the past. The opportunity to converse, undistracted, with the Austrian artist Stylianos Schicho was a privilege, since what most interests me in art are the sinews that bind it to whoever produces it.
Cincinnati Art Museum hosts Art After Dark in May with performances, themed tours, and late-night gallery access.
ProjectArt opens at CAC with installation, painting, prints and text on memory, place, community and youth voices, June.
CAM hosts a mezzotint gallery talk with curator Kristin Spangenberg on printmakers turn darkness into light through tone.
Visible mending meets Elizabeth Hawes as Sew Valley teaches repair skills for knits, wovens and longer garment lives.
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.
A few months ago I wondered in these pages what Macron was getting out of lending the Bayeux Tapestry to the English. Forty thousand French citizens signed a petition to block it, citing textile fragility and, I suspect, a touch of cross-Channel rancour as well. The other question remained: what would the British Museum get out of it.
As a worthy walk-on, more than once I have stood inside a still life: the living scene of a dead nature staged with everyday objects. Between Morandi and Chirico — take your pick of Giorgios — lit by the fierce Miami sun or beneath the drizzle of a summer afternoon, I have slipped into the heart of the anomaly, into the "temple of otherness."
What instincts guide us when we first meet other people? Is it our reading of gestural clues, a tilt of the head or an expression? Or, is it something more basic that leads one to know that Jymi Bolden is a warm, intelligent man ready for a hug?
Bolden presides over Art Beyond Boundaries...
Another Impressionist show? Yawn. This might be the reaction of some who wander into the small gallery at the Taft Museum of Art featuring a new exhibition titled, American Impression from Cincinnati Collections. But after you get over first impressions, no pun intended, stop to consider the historical context of an exhibition like this one. It isn’t just any other...
The Thomas R. Schiff gallery at the Cincinnati Art Museum hosts a selection of work from the collection of the 21C Museum Hotel, the boutique hotel (soon to be chain) that has been open in a repurposed set of warehouses in downtown Louisville for the past several years and which will soon occupy the former Metropole Apartment Building in downtown Cincinnati next to the Contemporary Arts Center. This exhibit...
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...
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.
Uber is slowing hiring as it increases investment in artificial intelligence, Business Insider reported on May 6. On the company's first-quarter earnings call, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said autonomous agents now produce roughly 10 percent of Uber's code changes, with human employees still checking the work before it enters a repository. He also said legal, marketing, and engineering teams are adopting AI tools internally, creating what he called employees with superpowers.
Uber is funding that push by controlling headcount growth. CFO Balaji Krishnamurthy said the company underestimated the impact of AI tools when it planned its late-2025 budget, and the CTO said Uber had already spent its 2026 Claude Code budget. The company is asking existing teams to produce more with agents before adding people at the same pace. That makes the tool part of ordinary staffing decisions. A manager asking for another hire now competes with software expected to raise output from the employees already inside the team.
The artificial intelligence industry is moving at two opposite financial speeds. DeepSeek confirmed that the 75 percent discount on the API for its flagship model, DeepSeek-V4-Pro, will apply as a fixed rate starting May 31, 2026. By pushing its costs down to a quarter of their original price, the firm resets the commercial floor for AI, especially for code-heavy work, cached memory, and agents that need repeated model calls.
The move lands at a tense moment for developers. OpenAI and Anthropic continue to defend higher prices for their most capable models through the promise of premium performance. Google, in its May update, also tightened usage limits based on the real compute of messages, a change that punishes long chats and complex programming requests. Against that backdrop, DeepSeek turns low price into an industrial statement.
For anyone who codes, automates, or designs agents, cost defines how many tests fit inside a workday and how long a system can keep running before the invoice appears. A permanent cut changes budgets, testing habits, and tolerance for failed runs. It also forces model comparisons through a less prestigious variable than reasoning quality, the price of keeping the machine on.
TechCrunch tested Bee, the AI wrist wearable Amazon acquired last year, and found a device built around daily recording. Bee can capture conversations, create transcripts, summarize meetings, and connect to calendar alerts. Its button turns recording on or off, and a light shows when audio capture is active. The reviewer found it useful during a business call, where the app broke the conversation into a readable summary. The transcript still missed pieces and had trouble naming speakers.
The discomfort starts when the meeting ends. To work as a personal assistant, Bee asks for broad phone permissions, including location, contacts, calendar, photos, notifications, and optional health data. Its summaries depend on a cloud record of ordinary speech. Bee says it encrypts user data and uses outside security reviews, but the bargain remains physical and intimate. That makes the device less like a notebook and closer to a tolerated witness on the wrist. Professional memory has an obvious price. Domestic memory asks for something stranger, which is permission to treat private life as material waiting to be indexed.
