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Artwork by Edie McKee Harper. Modernist at Play, her first museum retrospective, is at the Taft Museum of Art through January 24. Admission is free on Mondays and Sundays.
Your guide to the Cincinnati art scene
What's happening, where to create, and who to follow. Every Monday we round up the week's gallery openings, exhibits, classes, paint nights, and free museum days across Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. Every event below is a click away.
This week in Cincinnati art: October 19 - 25
Monday, October 19
- All day Edie McKee Harper: Modernist at Play - Taft Museum of Art. Admission is free on Mondays. Her first museum retrospective, more than 100 works, through January 24.
- All week FotoFocus 2026 Biennial: The Long View - 74 exhibitions at 65 venues across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky. The free Biennial Pass waives entry at venues that charge.
Tuesday, October 20
- 6:00 PM Cultural Ties artist talk - Kennedy Heights Arts Center. Ximena Flores, Tina Gutierrez, Andrea Sabugo and Rebecca Nava Soto on their FotoFocus exhibition.
Wednesday, October 21
- 7:00 PM Gallery talk: tintype photography - Cincinnati Art Club. Curator Kip Eagen on contemporary tintype portraits and altered historic images.
Thursday, October 22
- 11:30 AM Gigi Gatewood artist lecture - Art Academy of Cincinnati. A free public FotoFocus lecture.
- 5-8 PM The Art of Charley Harper: Creatures Wild and Tame - Cincinnati Art Museum. The ticketed retrospective is free for everyone on Thursday evenings.
Friday, October 23
- 10 AM-4 PM Vintage Market Days: Collected and Curated - Greene County Expo and Fairgrounds, Xenia. Friday and Saturday 10 to 4, Sunday 10 to 3. $15 Friday, $10 Saturday, $7 Sunday.
- 7:00 PM Night of the Pumpkin paint & sip - Wooden Cask, Newport. A Friday night paint sesh featuring a colorful carved pumpkin painting. $39, ages 21 and up.
- 7:00 PM In the Interest of Horror: Titane screening - Contemporary Arts Center. $8 members, $10 nonmembers, ages 18 and up.
Saturday, October 24
- 12-7 PM Dark Market: Cryptids of Cincinnati - Rhinegeist Brewery. 35 plus Midwest artists and makers, oddities, tarot and curiosities.
Sunday, October 25
- 1:00 PM Cardboard Architects - Contemporary Arts Center. Drop-in kids construction club, free with admission, and kids under 18 get in free.
- 1:30 PM Drop-in tour: Edie McKee Harper - Taft Museum of Art. Free guided tour, and Sunday admission is free too.
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