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In addition to best art gallery, we’ve asked for your votes this year for the best individual art show. This could include a larger arts festival or a smaller gallery exhibit. At the top of this new list is Urban… [Read More]
Some paintings find their power in the stories they tell, others in the stories that are told about them. Caravaggio’s Ecce Homo (Behold the Man), on view exclusively at the Columbus Museum of Art, does both. Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio… [Read More]
Protesters have occupied Wall Street. Income inequality has spiked at levels not seen since the Great Depression. Wealth continues to migrate toward the nation’s top earners while poverty rates soar. Class warfare has become the accusation de jour and all… [Read More]
Jeremy Callahan (aka Siftus) is one of several dozens artists that you’ll find at the Columbus Idea Foundry, a multi-purpose creative hub tucked away on a side street in an industrial strip of the Milo-Grogan neighborhood. His work spans many… [Read More]
Foodies and art patrons alike will be excited to hear that the Yummy! Art Show will be returning in October for its third installation, this time at Brothers Drake Meadery. Produced by the Couchfire Collective, Yummy! will showcase food-themed artwork… [Read More]
The Short North will once again host an outdoor public artwork show when Art al Fresco returns to the district tomorrow. This daylong event features visual arts installations, performance artists and more. “We’ve invited visual and performing artists to share… [Read More]
Franklinton has long been touted as becoming a new hot arts community in Columbus, but may people have trouble imagining the transformation of current vacant buildings and empty warehouses into something of creative and artistic value. Melissa Vogley Woods is… [Read More]
Let’s start with a preamblic warning of sorts: The juxtaposition of meaning and medium has become a common feature in contemporary art. Whether it’s Jeff Koons fabricating balloon dogs out of polished metal, Jake and Dino Chapman recreating Goya’s “Disasters… [Read More]
Starting in April, you’ll be able to find the work of local artists on display at the Columbus Museum of Art in the 2011 Greater Columbus Arts Council Visual Arts exhibition. The exhibiting artists include Mary Jo Bole, Jill Gallenstein,… [Read More]
I was struck by an interesting bit of serendipity regarding filmmaker Dani Leventhal’s visit to the Wexner Center this month. Not only was she born in Columbus, she was a student at Indianola Elementary; a school whose just-off-campus address makes… [Read More]
When I volunteered to write an article about the Crossing the BLVD: strangers, neighbors, aliens in a new America exhibition, I thought the article would just “come” to me. I knew the show focused on the diverse culture in Queens,… [Read More]
2010 was an exciting year for the local arts community. The Symphony landed a new Director, work on Wonderland began, and GCAC appointed a new president. Of all of the arts organizations in town, one stood out clearly as a… [Read More]
Chicks With Big Rollers is part of the Ohio Art League’s ongoing series of Member Curated Exhibitions. It features five female artists (that’s the “chicks” part) who’ve all worked in large format printmaking (that’s where the “big rollers” come in)…. [Read More]
An architecture exhibition titled What’s Next: New Visions for Clinton Theater features the drawings and plans of three concepts that envision the future of the historic Clinton Theater and its adjacent properties, all of which are now facing impending demolition…. [Read More]
Chris Rankin is a local CCAD grad who is leading a double life. By day, he is a Principal at Creative Spot, a local design, marketing and interactive firm. By night, he is an encaustic painter and engaged member of… [Read More]
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