In the Middle of the Endless Water, a solo exhibition by Julia Orquera Bianco curated by Carolina Cuervo at the Philip M. Meyers Jr. Memorial Gallery at the University of Cincinnati, brings together more than a decade of work by an artist whose practice has gradually moved from the personal experience of migration toward an inquiry into territory, memory, ecology, and alternative forms of knowledge.
Seven artists use photography, altered perspectives and mixed materials to imagine unfamiliar relationships with the natural world.
CAM presents more than 150 photographs and archival materials in the first career retrospective devoted to Nancy Rexroth.
ARTclectic opens its national juried ViewPoint 58 exhibition with a public reception in its Cincinnati gallery.
A free artist talk invites audiences to hear Ron Tisue recount his 1958–59 Antarctic winter-over through photographs and stories.
Noel Maghathe brings woven photographs and family archives to the Art Academy of Cincinnati for FotoFocus 2026.
More than 200 members contribute to this all-member show, opening with a public reception at The Barn on October 11.
The Taft Museum opens its first solo museum exhibition devoted to Cincinnati artist Edie McKee Harper.
Free FotoFocus reception, curators’ talk and student awards bring visitors to the Art Academy of Cincinnati on October 16.
I suppose that, like me, hundreds and probably thousands of viewers developed a dark sympathy for the character of Hannibal Lecter. The two actors who, to date, have embodied him most memorably are Anthony Hopkins and Mads Mikkelsen. The character displays extraordinary intelligence and self-control. He conducts himself according to his own rules and ethical codes.
In a couple of weeks, The Annex Gallery will receive an exhibition by Juan-Sí González. There are several generations of Cuban artists —the younger ones especially— with only a very blurred idea of who Juan-Sí is and what his role has been in Cuban visual arts during the second half of the twentieth century. Some do not know him at all.
Arts & Community – Fall 2012
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The Fitton Center for Creative Arts and the Michael J. Colligan History Project are partnering for a series of discussions about the role of the arts in Hamilton’s past and future. All events are free and open to the public...
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I am happy to announce the launch of the FARGO HOUSE project in Buffalo, which aims to invigorate the collective imagination of place through built projects, workshops, exhibitions and residency opportunities. As part of the project, I have officially begun my residency as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s 2012...
Marcereau DeGalan will join the museum staff in late October.
Photographer Jens G. Rosenkrantz Jr. opens Crossing the Border next Friday, September 4, in the main gallery of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Americas in Miami. This is only the second time this body of photographs, taken along an extensive stretch of the southern border of the United States, has been shown publicly. Its first presentation took place in Cuba, at Fábrica de Arte Cubano, in 2019...
For this series, Rubio & del Amo, a Murcia-based studio specializing in visual identity, editorial design and packaging, joins forces with Cruz más Cruz, the Madrid firm founded by José María Cruz Novillo and later consolidated with the arrival of his son Pepe. Two fairly complementary sensibilities feeding into a common project.
In the mid-1990s, I had many printed copies of the Financial Times in my hands. Probably sometime between 1995 and 1997. I was fascinated by its design, the wan salmon of its pages and Ingram Pinn’s illustrations: its visual identity, basically. As for reading it, very little, I confess. It was an almost purely retinal experience, and little else. But it became clear to me that its texts were written for professionals —people who make decisions on the basis of verified information—
Timnit Gebru is one of four recipients of the 2026 Right Livelihood Award, announced in Stockholm on September 30. The Ethiopian-born AI researcher was cited for challenging concentrated power in artificial intelligence and advancing technology grounded in justice, lived experience and human agency. She founded the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR), whose work examines discrimination, labor conditions and the environmental costs behind AI systems. The other recipients are Pakistani human-rights lawyer Jalila Haider, the Rural Women’s Assembly in Southern Africa and the Georgian Young Lawyers’ Association. Chosen from 200 nominations across 72 countries, this year’s group places scrutiny of AI beside struggles for legal rights, democracy and control of land.
Gebru asks who chooses the data, pays for computing, performs the work that prepares systems, and receives their benefits. DAIR’s distributed model brings researchers and communities into that inquiry, challenging an industry where a few companies control the tools and resources. The award places AI design and governance in a civic register, where decisions can be examined for their effects on people facing discrimination. Public recognition cannot give affected communities a route to contest automated decisions or require companies to reveal training data. The foundation says the award includes long-term support for laureates, extending resources for Gebru’s community-based research beyond the December 1 ceremony in Stockholm.
AMD says it will acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence lab co-founded by computer-vision researcher Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal valued at about $8.2 billion. The company announced the agreement late Monday; coverage appeared Tuesday. World Labs says its models can generate, reconstruct and simulate interactive 3D environments from text, images and video. It also develops systems for robotic learning and simulation. AMD says the research will help shape future chips, software and infrastructure for changing AI workloads. After the deal closes, Li is expected to become AMD’s executive vice president and chief scientist. The acquisition remains subject to regulatory approval.
That puts a question usually framed around chatbots and data centers into a more physical register: who builds the systems that give machines a working model of space? World Labs’ tools may make simulated environments useful for design, training and robotics, while turning representations of places into valuable corporate infrastructure. Bringing the lab inside a chipmaker could connect model research directly to the hardware that runs it. The arrangement may speed engineering, but it also gathers decisions about how machines represent the world within one company. A generated 3D scene is still a simulation, not evidence that a system reliably understands a real room. As AI moves toward robots and other physical applications, its maps of the world will need to be tested against the places and people they are meant to serve.
In India, some people looking for a phone through Gemini or Google’s AI Mode now see a Flipkart “Buy” button before opening the retailer’s app. TechCrunch reports that the limited test sends selected Flipkart listings to a Flipkart-branded checkout. Amazon products can appear beside them without the same purchase option. Google confirmed it is testing ways to help people discover businesses, but has not announced a wider release. The recommendation and the first step toward payment now share one interface, even though the retailer still handles checkout.
The design puts Google between a person’s request and a retailer’s checkout, giving the search company influence over which products appear ready to buy. Google invested about $350 million in Flipkart in 2024, a financial tie that predates the test. The report does not explain how eligible listings are selected. A conversational answer can sound like personal advice while the screen arranges commercial offers. When an assistant becomes the first shop window, its ordering shapes what shoppers compare before opening a store. Amazon listings can appear beside Flipkart’s, but only some Flipkart products get the one-tap checkout; shoppers still have to check the seller, total price, and terms in Flipkart’s checkout.
