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CoSign snags $200K ArtPlace America grant

ArtPlaceAmerica.org Tuesday, May 21, 2013

With a new $200,000 award, The American Sign Museum will expand its innovative CoSign initiative that pairs artists, small businesses and sign fabricators.

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Cincinnati: The Queen City's crown shines again

The Charleston Gazette Tuesday, April 30, 2013

With dueling nicknames of The Queen City for its beauty and Porkopolis for its hog-packing history, Cincinnati cannot be pigeonholed.

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Patti Smith's Cincinnati Art Exhibit Will Be a Robert Mapplethorpe Tribute

The Huffington Post Tuesday, April 09, 2013

The Patti Smith exhibit that will open at downtown Cincinnati's Contemporary Art Center on May 17 will be a tribute to her close friend, the late photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.

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Gorillification: How to be a surrogate primate mom

CBS Morning News Tuesday, April 02, 2013

A team of dedicated workers in Cincinnati are trying to give a very sad story a happy ending. Gladys, a two-month-old baby gorilla, was abandoned by her mother, and her keepers have been caring for her until a foster mother gorilla can take over.

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15 U.S. Cities Emerging Downtowns

Forbes.com Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Downtown Cincinnati has been transforming its downtown hub since the 1990s, with an estimated $1.3 billion invested in projects currently in construction or planning stages, according to Downtown Cincinnati Inc.

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Toronto's 'Grey Cincinnati' and Montreal's Black Fashion Week look to expand racial boundaries

National Post Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Ryerson fashion professor Henry Navarro's "Grey Cincinnati" show challenges fashion stereotypes.

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Fourteen large-scale abstract paintings by Jim Dine on view at Pace Gallery in New York

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

In his new body of work, Cincinnatian Jim Dine eliminates the iconic figurative objects of his previous paintings to focus on the act of painting itself. The radical shift developed in the studio over two years.

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Local libraries part of national trend, via NYTimes

The New York Times Tuesday, January 08, 2013

As librarians across the nation struggle with the task of redefining their roles and responsibilities in a digital age, many public libraries are seeing an opportunity to fill the void created by the loss of traditional bookstores.

Cincinnati libraries are seizing the day.

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Broadway's Just a Suburb of Cincinnati

The New York Times Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Katie Holmes stars in “Dead Accounts,” a family comedy now in previews at the Music Box Theater, about morality and middle-class Ohio Catholics written by one of their own, Theresa Rebeck, who grew up outside Cincinnati.

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New European Curator, new Conservator at Cincinnati Art Museum

Art Daily Tuesday, November 06, 2012

The Cincinnati Art Museum announced Serena Urry as Chief Conservator. Urry served as Senior Conservator of Paintings at the Barnes Foundation, preparing its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist collection for the move to downtown Philadelphia.

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Away games: On the road with the Steelers, in Cincinnati

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Nestled on the banks of the Ohio River, with all the amenities of a major metropolis wrapped in an envelope of small-town charm, Cincinnati is a fun -- and walkable -- place to spend a fall weekend.

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New Girl visits Cincinnati

WESA: Pittsburgh Tuesday, October 16, 2012

Travel writer Elaine Labalme has some tips on sights to see in Cincinnati.

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FotoFocus featured in New York Times

The New York Times Tuesday, September 25, 2012

FotoFocus, Cincinnati's month-long celebration of photography, gets a shout-out in The New York Times fall arts preview.

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Cincinnati goes exposed

SCIONexposed.com Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Scion's 8th Exposed event took place below the streets of Cincinnati in a half-mile long underground tunnel.

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Cincinnati Zoo cheetah breaks world speed record

Northwestohio.com Tuesday, August 07, 2012

Sarah, the Cincinnati Zoo's 11-year-old cheetah, set a new world speed record! She first earned the title of world’s fastest of all land mammals in 2009 when she covered 100 meters in 6.13 seconds, breaking the previous mark of 6.19 seconds set by a male South African cheetah named Nyana in 2001.

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