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(City Beat) CAC Announces a New Season of Adventurous Performances

"You couldn’t ask for a more creatively adventurous, inclusive and progressive performing arts schedule than what the Contemporary Arts Center...

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(City Beat) Sealed with a "Kiss"

"How does an artist simultaneously perform the sometimes-contradictory role of curator, sensitively arranging their own artwork within the framework of...

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(Cincinnati Magazine) Curated Cuisine at the Contemporary Arts Center

"You know the tide in town is shifting when the new place to see and be seen is the café...

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(Art Info) Cincinnati Hosts Mapplethorpe Symposium 25 Years After Trial

"In October of 1990, a jury acquitted Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) and its director Dennis Barrie of obscenity charges...

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(CityBeat) Art: The Perfect Kiss (QQ)

"American performance and installation artist James Lee Byars (1932-97) based his work around unique objects, shapes, drawings and ephemera, including...

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(WVXU) "The Vesper Project" from artist Titus Kaphar is opening at the CAC

"Five years ago, the paths of artist Titus Kaphar and the Vesper family crossed when a man named Benjamin Vesper...

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(Miami New Times) HELADO NEGRO ON WORKING WITH “PROFESSIONAL DANCERS” AND PAMM

"Though the Brooklyn-based South Florida native confesses he’s not a 'huge sci-fi fan,' there is no denying that Helado Negro’s...

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(Enquirer) Making memory: New CAC show challenges history

"The Vesper Project is not a cold monument to memory. It is a living, breathing account. Artist Titus Kaphar simultaneously...

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(Enquirer) Missy Mazzoli. Classical composer and she’s got a band

"Missy Mazzoli’s music doesn’t fit neatly into one genre, which is fine with her, because, as is the case with...

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(City Beat) Victoire at Last!

"The acclaimed indie sextet Victoire, headed by composer Missy Mazzoli, makes its Cincinnati debut at the Contemporary Arts Center this...

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(Enquirer) Polly's new fave: Collective Espresso's Artful Cafe

"I had just written about Collective Espresso's second coffee shop when they opened their third, and it's so top-rate that...

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Contemporary Arts Center to Receive National Endowment for the Arts Grant

Contemporary Arts Center to Receive National Endowment for the Arts GrantAward is Among 1,023 Made Nationally(Cincinnati, OH)— Through its grant-making...