Art historiography in the American Midwest often relies on preservation institutions that consolidate particular versions of the past. This year, the Taft Museum of Art subjects its founding narrative to review through the integration of “domestic” aesthetics into the historical texture that defines it.

According to multiple sources, Art Attack Cincinnati emerges in the early 2020s, within a broader moment of cultural reactivation following the pandemic. It can be understood as a punctual exhibition format that enables the direct sale of artworks. It has no fixed venue and unfolds across informal sites in the city, with recurring presence in places such as Braxton Brewing Co. Cincinnati.

Pineapple on pizza is not to my taste. That does not affect the assessment of this new mural. On March 12, 2026, Pineapple on Pizza was unveiled in Covington, a large-scale intervention executed on the building of The Gruff as part of the national Spray It Forward program, led by the brand Rust-Oleum. The project was selected as one of seven developments nationwide, positioning the city within a network of initiatives that use public art as a tool for visibility and urban activation.

Clifton Cultural Arts Center has named visual artist Gabrielle Siekman its 2026 New Woman fellow.
The announcement happened earlier this month during the opening reception for “New Woman,” the arts center’s biennial exhibition highlighting emerging women artists in the Greater Cincinnati region.

There are artists whose work is born of skill; others, of obsession; others still, of a wound. In Aaron Kent, all three converge. His practice resists reduction to any single discipline or stable technique. Although it may be inscribed, under a taxonomic logic, within the territories of ceramics, printmaking, or sculpture, the truth is that his work moves through far more uncertain zones.

Everyone in Cincinnati’s artistic community knows Katherine Hurley. They have for a long time. In my own case, for just under ten years. And we all know her solid career and her exceptional body of work, delicate and subtle as few others.
I have always found it difficult to comment on the genre of landscape. Not because I do not like it, but because, when it reproduces what nature itself has taken millennia of patient execution to achieve...

On Tuesday, November 4, at 6:30 p.m., the Liberal Arts Studio at the Art Academy of Cincinnati will host poet, teacher, editor, and independent publisher Anselm Berrigan for a free public reading. The session will be opened by student Nyla Davies (junior), and after the featured reader there will be a brief open mic for anyone who would like to share their work. The proposal is straightforward: listen to poems, read them aloud, and sustain a simple exchange, with coffee and light refreshments.

The Art Academy of Cincinnati opens its doors to a territory where, more often than not, images speak before words. From November 14 to December 12, 2025, under the title Story Art, the Pearlman and McClure Galleries will gather finished works and process materials by a remarkable group of Midwestern book illustrators. It is far more than a deftly mounted selection of framed pieces. Pages, sketches, color studies—each an artifact of decision-making—trace the paths that lead a volume toward accomplishment...

One of the fundamental aims of The Annex Updated is to project Cincinnati’s artistic scene toward new communities, extending its echo to other cities across the United States and Europe. That task—necessarily patient and persistent—allows local experiences to find resonance in places where the creative pulse of the Midwest has seldom been perceived. At that intersection between the intimate and the expansive, the 2025 edition of the annual exhibition The Golden Ticket, organized by the Clifton Cultural Arts Center (CCAC)...