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Weathered gravestones among grass and small white flowers in Lexington Cemetery.
April 21st, 2013 | By Louis Zoellar Bickett

Lexington Cemetery, April 10, 2013, The Archive Louis Zoellar Bickett

A photo essay by Louis Zoellar Bickett from his ongoing project The Archive: twenty-two photographs taken at Lexington Cemetery in Lexington, Kentucky, on April 10, 2013.

Artist drawing large black-and-white chalk portraits on a sidewalk, with the words 'Culture Crimes, Art Assassins' at the bottom
April 21st, 2013 | By Saad Ghosn

Art For A Better World

Saad Ghosn profiles two artists working for a better world: Jan Brown Checco, painter, sculptor and art administrator committed to fostering intercultural understanding and mutual appreciation through community-based art projects, and Fran Watson, literary artist and above all a full time lover and appreciator of all arts.

A yellow wine glass in the foreground with the marquee of the Marianne theater in Bellevue, Kentucky, behind it.
April 21st, 2013 | By Susan Amis

Seeing Bellevue Kentucky Through Yellow Colored Glasses

The yellow glasses I found in Bellevue, Kentucky aren’t those from the Beatles’ famous Sargent Pepper’s song.

Leon Golub painting with figures in an interior space.
April 21st, 2013 | By Cynthia Kukla

Letter from Chicago: Part II.

I returned to Chicago for the April 19th symposium on Picasso1 organized for the “Picasso and Chicago” exhibition and seeing the exhibition again strengthens my already deep appreciation of Pablo Picasso and reinforces his pivotal role in advancing modernism.

Installation view of Jessie Henson's Time Before, Time After at the Emery.
April 21st, 2013 | By Chistopher Hoeting

Atlas Points

Cincinnati’s Emery once again opened its doors for the third consecutive year (under the leadership of The Requiem Project) with two shows this past weekend: Atlas Points—the visual arts component of Cincinnati’s MusicNow and FORTY/40—the Contemporary Dance Theatre’s 40th Anniversary celebration.

Watercolor of a 19th-century art gallery interior with paintings and sculptures.
April 21st, 2013 | By James Cummins

Hick and Willie and the Art Review

“Oh, the parks minister to lovers in the spring! Rhythms of love turn out to be symphonic, that started out merely platonic … Any keepers on your Match.com list, Wild Thing?”

A Mongolian family in traditional dress posed in front of their felt ger.
April 21st, 2013 | By Karen Chambers

Elaine Ling's Mongolia, Iris BookCafé and Gallery

Walking through “Elaine Ling’s Mongolia” exhibition at the Iris BookCafé and Gallery in Over the Rhine, her photos read as ethnographic records documenting the life of nomads living in the independent Outer Mongolia. Looking at them gave me the sense I knew these people through their portraits, the trappings of their lives, and the monoliths and carved stone statues standing alone in the Gobi Desert.

Three women posing together in front of an ornate carved fireplace.
April 21st, 2013 | By Laura A. Hobson

YWCA Art Gallery Spreads Women's Mission

Walking up the stairs of the YWCA, 898 Walnut St., a visitor is immediately struck by a large abstract, acrylic, colorful painting entitled “Marrakesh Express” by Jolie Harris. This is merely an enticing introduction to the rest of the “Field of Possibilities” exhibit in conjunction with sculptor Paige Wideman at the YWCA Women’s Art Gallery running from February 1 – April 4, 2013.

Historical engraving of steamboats at the Public Landing in Cincinnati.
April 21st, 2013 | By Kevin Ott

American Historical Print Collectors Society: 38th Annual Meeting in Cincinnati

The American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS) will hold its 38th Annual Meeting in Cincinnati May 15th-18th. This august group of 450 collectors, dealers and curators was formed to “encourage collection, preservation, study of original historical American prints that are 100 or more years old”.