Enjoy the beach without leaving Cincinnati! The Cincinnati Art Museum kicks off a CINCINNATI SUMMER this Saturday with an Art Boardwalk. The Art Museum’s landlocked parking lot will be transformed into a beach boardwalk scene, complete with a sand sculpture, a Framester box truck photo booth, an artmaking Midway including Happen, Inc., do-it-yourself screen printing* with Able Projects, food trucks*,...

The Cincinnati Art Museum has acquired its first Georgia O’Keeffe painting. The Art Museum purchased “My Back Yard” at Christie’s Auction House in New York Thursday morning. O’Keeffe (1887-1986), the celebrated American modernist, painted “My Back Yard” in 1943 from her Ghost Ranch home in Abiquiu, about six years after moving to New Mexico.

Shane Hatfield is a senior at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. He spoke with AEQAI about his artwork and his artistic methods.

Polyphonic Playground, a solo exhibition of recent paintings and drawings by Cedric Michael Cox, opens July 13 at FiveMyles in Brooklyn. The artist will be at the gallery for the duration of the exhibition, on view through July 27.

One of Robert Schatz’s sculptural pieces has been included in a brand new exhibit, A Time In Arcadia, at Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ. The exhibit is a collaboration between the gallery and the Jersey City Free Public Library, and will be on view in both venues. The exhibit will run through June 23rd. A catalogue will be available.

From the poetic pastels of Degas and Renoir to Modernist jewelry by Art Smith, the Cincinnati Art Museum will take visitors on a journey to experience works of art more delicate in nature for the 2013-2014 Exhibition Season. Modern and contemporary Japanese prints and ceramics, Cincinnati Silver, and new works of fashion and craft showcase the softer side.

The Cincinnati Art Museum opens a brand new exhibition Cincinnati Everyday on Saturday, May 25th. This exhibition by Cincinnati natives, Cole Carothers and Courttney Cooper, will include landscape oil paintings by Carothers and and aerial view maps by Cooper.

There’s a reason why Camp Art Academy was voted, “Best In The City” by Cincinnati Magazine. Our programs teach art fundamentals in addition to tons of fun!

There is a little “back room” at Manifest Art Gallery where twice, now, I’ve discovered unexpected excellence. It portends even more visits working back to front in  this unusual art venue. This latest surprise was a show of large hand printed  portrait etchings on chine colle by  Dennis Olsen.