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The World Illuminated

Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County Main Library
800 Vine St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

In the early part of the 20th century the Library began collecting lantern slides, which were loaned to customers and used for Library programming, such as lectures. Highlights from this vast collection are on display at the Main Library throug

In the early part of the 20th century the Library began collecting lantern slides, which were loaned to customers and used for Library programming, such as lectures. Highlights from this vast collection are on display at the Main Library throug

Mandela: The Journey to Ubuntu

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
50 E. Freedom Way, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

The exhibit commemorates the life and legacy of former South African President Nelson Mandela through photographs by Willman as he revisited many of the locations that played an important role in South Africa’s route to racial equality and Mandela’s personal fight for...

The exhibit commemorates the life and legacy of former South African President Nelson Mandela through photographs by Willman as he revisited many of the locations that played an important role in South Africa’s route to racial equality and Mandela’s personal fight for...

1919 Cincinnati Reds World Series Champions Exhibit

Behringer-Crawford Museum
1600 Montague Road, Covington, KY 41011

South

This new exhibit features authenticated baseball cards, autographs, postcards and souvenir books from the 1919 Championship Reds. The exhibit also includes memorabilia commemorating the notorious "Black Sox" betting scandal that rocked baseball and led to eight White Sox players...

This new exhibit features authenticated baseball cards, autographs, postcards and souvenir books from the 1919 Championship Reds. The exhibit also includes memorabilia commemorating the notorious "Black Sox" betting scandal that rocked baseball and led to eight White Sox players...

Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs

Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Uptown

Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs unveils the mysteries and explores the realities of daily life in ancient Egypt. This extraordinary exhibition looks beyond popular culture’s fantastical portrayals to examine the lives of commoners and god-kings and queens alike. More than 350...

Egypt: The Time of Pharaohs unveils the mysteries and explores the realities of daily life in ancient Egypt. This extraordinary exhibition looks beyond popular culture’s fantastical portrayals to examine the lives of commoners and god-kings and queens alike. More than 350...

Dominic Guarnaschelli: Incognitum

Weston Art Gallery
650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Dominic Guarnaschelli draws inspiration from the fields of natural history, religion, education, and museological display. Through an array of sculptural and image-based work, he produces an evocative environment that recalls a museum yet whose subject remains out of reach.

Dominic Guarnaschelli draws inspiration from the fields of natural history, religion, education, and museological display. Through an array of sculptural and image-based work, he produces an evocative environment that recalls a museum yet whose subject remains out of reach.

Migiwa Orimo: Proximity of Syllable

Weston Art Gallery
650 Walnut Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Using disparate material and techniques in her installations, Migiwa Orimo (Yellow Springs, OH) focuses on words/texts that are hidden, erased, redacted, or invisible from public view. She has compiled various lists and texts that purport to communicate as they disappear in...

Using disparate material and techniques in her installations, Migiwa Orimo (Yellow Springs, OH) focuses on words/texts that are hidden, erased, redacted, or invisible from public view. She has compiled various lists and texts that purport to communicate as they disappear in...

Sandra Cinto

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Throughout her career, Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto has developed a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines to create lyrical landscapes that swirl between fantasy and reality. Using drawing as her point of departure, Cinto evokes mesmerizing environments including turbulent...

Throughout her career, Brazilian artist Sandra Cinto has developed a rich vocabulary of symbols and lines to create lyrical landscapes that swirl between fantasy and reality. Using drawing as her point of departure, Cinto evokes mesmerizing environments including turbulent...

Calcagno Cullen, Amanda Curreri and Lindsey Whittle

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Calcagno Cullen is an artist, curator, and the executive director of an experimental arts space and socially-engaged residency program that has turned the arts organization into an art practice. Amanda Curreri is an artist and professor whose work is interdisciplinary and...

Calcagno Cullen is an artist, curator, and the executive director of an experimental arts space and socially-engaged residency program that has turned the arts organization into an art practice. Amanda Curreri is an artist and professor whose work is interdisciplinary and...

Winslow Homer to Georgia O’Keeffe: American Paintings from The Phillips Collection

Taft Museum of Art
316 Pike St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Winslow Homer to Georgia O’Keeffe traces a century of the modern creative spirit in the United States, ranging from realistic landscapes to bold abstract forms. Fifty-five works by American masters—including Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe,...

Winslow Homer to Georgia O’Keeffe traces a century of the modern creative spirit in the United States, ranging from realistic landscapes to bold abstract forms. Fifty-five works by American masters—including Thomas Eakins, Winslow Homer, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe,...

Travels with Turner

Taft Museum of Art
316 Pike St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Follow nineteenth-century British painter J. M. W. Turner on his travels throughout the United Kingdom and Europe—through his watercolors and an interactive digital map. On his journeys, Turner filled sketchbook after sketchbook, gathering reference material he would later...

Follow nineteenth-century British painter J. M. W. Turner on his travels throughout the United Kingdom and Europe—through his watercolors and an interactive digital map. On his journeys, Turner filled sketchbook after sketchbook, gathering reference material he would later...

Cultural Compositions

Caza Sikes
3078 Madison Road, Cincinnati, OH 45209

East

This exhibition will feature four prominent Cincinnati artists: Jimi Jones, Cedric Michael Cox, Ricci Michaels, and Terence Hammonds.

This exhibition will feature four prominent Cincinnati artists: Jimi Jones, Cedric Michael Cox, Ricci Michaels, and Terence Hammonds.

Giorgione’s La Vecchia

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Uptown

Giorgione’s painting of an old woman is among the most startling and engaging images of the Italian Renaissance. Depicted in half-length with her body turned to the side, the wizened figure looks directly at us and points to herself. Her mouth is open, as though speaking, and...

Giorgione’s painting of an old woman is among the most startling and engaging images of the Italian Renaissance. Depicted in half-length with her body turned to the side, the wizened figure looks directly at us and points to herself. Her mouth is open, as though speaking, and...

Art Academy of Cincinnati at 150: A Celebration in Drawings and Prints

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202

Uptown

The Art Museum celebrates 150 years of creativity with this exhibition of works on paper by alumni and faculty of the Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC). Selected from the museum’s collection, more than 90 masterful drawings and prints reflect the intrinsic connections between...

The Art Museum celebrates 150 years of creativity with this exhibition of works on paper by alumni and faculty of the Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC). Selected from the museum’s collection, more than 90 masterful drawings and prints reflect the intrinsic connections between...

Volcanoes: The Fires of Creation

Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Bring the whole family to experience the newly updated Robert D Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater! This film will take theatergoers into the crater of a boiling volcano, close enough to feel the liquid hot magma! The film runs daily, check the Cincinnati Museum's Center website for...

Bring the whole family to experience the newly updated Robert D Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater! This film will take theatergoers into the crater of a boiling volcano, close enough to feel the liquid hot magma! The film runs daily, check the Cincinnati Museum's Center website for...

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

Robert D. Lindner Family OMNIMAX Theater
1301 Western Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45203

Uptown

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs follows researchers as they piece together the archeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies. In addition to increasing our understanding of the culture, religion, medicine and daily life thousands of years ago, scientists today are...

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs follows researchers as they piece together the archeological and genetic clues of Egyptian mummies. In addition to increasing our understanding of the culture, religion, medicine and daily life thousands of years ago, scientists today are...

Ingri Fiksdal: "STATE"

Contemporary Arts Center
44 E. Sixth St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

STATE is part dance performance and part live concert, and springs out of a lengthy research into ritual dances from a range of places and times. The interest lies in what mental and bodily states these dances can produce amongst performers and spectators. Together with...

STATE is part dance performance and part live concert, and springs out of a lengthy research into ritual dances from a range of places and times. The interest lies in what mental and bodily states these dances can produce amongst performers and spectators. Together with...

150: AAC Future Tense Present

Art Academy of Cincinnati
1212 Jackson Street, cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

AAC Future Tense Present The Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC) is a community of radiant, radical, forward-thinking artists and designers who have helped mold the creative landscape for 150 years. To celebrate, the Art Academy of Cincinnati presents, “AAC Future Tense...

AAC Future Tense Present The Art Academy of Cincinnati (AAC) is a community of radiant, radical, forward-thinking artists and designers who have helped mold the creative landscape for 150 years. To celebrate, the Art Academy of Cincinnati presents, “AAC Future Tense...

Art After Dark: We Built This City

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Drive, Cincinnati, OH 45202

East

We built this city…on art and food! Celebrate special exhibition Art Academy of Cincinnati at 150: A Celebration in Drawings and Prints with live music by Art Academy of Cincinnati alumni Heavy Hinges, chili from Camp Washington Chili & salads from Dewey's Pizza,...

We built this city…on art and food! Celebrate special exhibition Art Academy of Cincinnati at 150: A Celebration in Drawings and Prints with live music by Art Academy of Cincinnati alumni Heavy Hinges, chili from Camp Washington Chili & salads from Dewey's Pizza,...

The Art of Food-Lucky Thirteen

The Carnegie
1028 Scott Blvd., Covington, KY 41012

South

Party with bite-sized dishes from area's top chefs and culinary-inspired art from local and regional artists.All proceeds will benefit the exhibition of emerging local and regional artists in The Carnegie Galleries. This year, THE ART OF FOOD will spill out onto the front...

Party with bite-sized dishes from area's top chefs and culinary-inspired art from local and regional artists.All proceeds will benefit the exhibition of emerging local and regional artists in The Carnegie Galleries. This year, THE ART OF FOOD will spill out onto the front...

Final Friday

Pendleton Art Center
1310 Pendleton St., Cincinnati, OH 45202

Downtown

Studios of the Pendleton Art Center are open to the public, giving guests the opportunity to view creative art space, as well as purchase one-of-a-kind artwork directly from artists. Meet artists, view and purchase their artwork, attend lectures, watch live demenostrations and...

Studios of the Pendleton Art Center are open to the public, giving guests the opportunity to view creative art space, as well as purchase one-of-a-kind artwork directly from artists. Meet artists, view and purchase their artwork, attend lectures, watch live demenostrations and...

Still I Rise: An Art Exhibition Honoring African American Women

Fathom House Art
4008 Hamilton Avenue, Cincinnati, OH 45223

West

Join for the first show opening in a new space! They are excited to welcome one of their favorite artists, Daria Love, as the curator for this exhibition honoring African American women! Several local artists will have their work displayed as well as several live performances of...

Join for the first show opening in a new space! They are excited to welcome one of their favorite artists, Daria Love, as the curator for this exhibition honoring African American women! Several local artists will have their work displayed as well as several live performances of...

Saturday Morning Art Seminar

Harmon Museum
105 S BROADWAY ST, Lebanon, OH 45036

North

Every month, art curator, Michael Coyan, gives a lecture on a different aspect of art (movement history, evolution of a medium, art of an era, etc.). This month The History of Miniatures. The history of miniatures whether they be paintings, drawings or carving began in the...

Every month, art curator, Michael Coyan, gives a lecture on a different aspect of art (movement history, evolution of a medium, art of an era, etc.). This month The History of Miniatures. The history of miniatures whether they be paintings, drawings or carving began in the...