Cincinnati artists born 150 years apart continue to drive a message of equality and hope
âTo be from Cincinnati you kind of have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder, people donât think we are going to do the greatest all the time,â said Brandon Hawkins owner of Soul Palette, a mobile paint party business.
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CINCINNATI â When Brandon Hawkins learned a painting by a historic Cincinnati artist was a part of the inauguration of President Joe Biden, he felt inspired.
âTo be from Cincinnati you kind of have a little bit of a chip on your shoulder. People donât think we are going to do the greatest all the time,â said Hawkins, who owns Soul Palette mobile paint party business.
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Photograph by Glenn Castellano, New York
Coming February 27, 2021, take a walk in historyâs shoesâliterally. The Taft Museum of Art will exhibit
Walk This Way featuring world-renowned designer Stuart Weitzmanâs personal collection of 100 pairs of shoes. The exhibit will be on display for the first time ever right here in Cincinnati, which was once home to one of the largest manufacturers of shoes in the United States. âWe had more than 20 factories in the Queen City in the early 1900s,â says Taft Museum Assistant Curator Ann Glasscock. âOne was actually built within eyesight of the Taft Museum of Art.â
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Cincinnati Art Museumâs current
Frank Duveneck: American Masterretrospective would seem to have little need to dig up anything new about the esteemed Covington native. Born to German-immigrant parents, he and his career flowered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and heâs often been called this cityâs most important artist. A respected Art Academy of Cincinnati teacher as well, he died in 1919 at age 70.
Illustration by Gabriel Ippoliti
But, really, the ideas behind this show are anything but complacent. It attempts to shake the cobwebs off of Duveneckâs reputation, which isnât as prominent nationally and internationally as it is here. As
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