In this season of polarizing partisan politics, billboards that satirize the “red-vs.-blue” tenor of the presidential campaign are popping up along Interstate 71. They are the work of The I-71 Project, a collaboration between the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and Columbus Museum of Art.
In a way, the transformation of the CAC echoes that of Platow herself. Walk past the center, and it appears much as it did when it opened in 2003. Look at Platow, and she appears much the same as when she was hired in July 2007. It’s on the inside that each has changed, again and again.
The Contemporary Arts Center explores the interplay between visual and culinary arts in a lusciously illustrated book, “Cuisine, Art, Cocktails: Celebrating Contemporary Cincinnati.”
It wasn’t just Alice’s night, it was Alice’s day – with Mayor John Cranley proclaiming May 6, 2016, as Alice F. Weston Day and the Cincinnati Arts Association’s Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery throwing a party that night.
The celebration of the Iraqi-born, British architect’s work turns to Cincinnati, where her career took off after the opening of the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, home of the Contemporary Arts Center.
The Contemporary Arts Center opens two new imaginative exhibitions on Friday, April 22. One features two artists who imagine the details, detours and interpretations of iconic novels with serial drawings. In the other, the artists take everyday items and turn them into imaginative works of art.
The combination of free admission and the new exhibition “Do Ho Suh: Passage” drew nearly 1,3000 visitors to the Contemporary Arts Center on Valentine’s Day weekend.
Free entry to the CAC galleries is courtesy of a $75,000 gift from The Johnson Foundation and $150,000 from a newly formed CAC patron’s circle known as The 50. Together, they will subsidize free admission for at least three years.
