Art Beyond Boundaries

05/25/2026

FotoFocus: Through the Lens of Time

As we count down the days until the doors to the new FotoFocus Center open, we're looking back at 16 years of FotoFocus— honoring where we've been as we step into what comes next.

In 2016, as part of the FotoFocus Biennial, we activated the FotoFocus ArtHub: Satellite Project Space; an interactive space for the community of Cincinnati to immerse themselves in the Biennial themes, located outside of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.

It housed Wave Pool’s extension of their exhibition “The Peeled Eye.” Investigating the mechanisms and outcomes of contemporary surveillance, the FotoFocus ArtHub presented an installation, video work and performance that distorted and reimagined materials drawn from public archives, including surveillance footage, self-generating animation, and commercial video vignettes.

05/25/2026

05/25/2026

La Danse is one of the defining paintings of modern art — but behind its apparent simplicity is a radical statement about freedom, humanity, rhythm, and the future of painting itself. Matisse wanted to strip away civilization, decoration, and intellectual complexity.
The dancers represent something ancient and universal. One of the most important ideas behind it

Matisse once said he wanted art to feel like:

“a soothing, calming influence on the mind.”

But paradoxically, La Danse achieves calm through raw energy and simplified chaos.

05/25/2026

At the National Constitution Center, a touch tour is offering the chance to feel bronze statues of the nation's founders to pick up on their age, status and demeanor through touch.

05/25/2026

A new documentary which recently premiered at this year’s Cannes Film Festival about famed photographer Richard Avedon “lets him down,” says writer Dan Schindel.

Much of this is because Director Ron Howard has a “general disinterest in the artistic process,” according to Schindel.
Image: Film still of Avedon (2026), directed by Ron Howard (photo courtesy Cannes Film Festival)

05/25/2026

Estate-authorized. Ships with certificate.

05/25/2026

FotoFocus: Through the Lens of Time

FotoFocus Center opens in just one week! To celebrate, we're taking a moment to look back on 16 years of history, honoring the milestones that have shaped our organization and led us to this permanent home.

For the 2016 FotoFocus Biennial, the theme was “Photography, the Undocument.” Curated by Artistic Director and New York-based curator Kevin Moore, the FotoFocus exhibitions and programming offered an exploration of alternative understandings of the documentary photograph, both questioning its claims to objectivity and observing its tendency toward subtle or explicit fantasy.

Photography is identified with objectivity, documentation, and realism. Yet the medium essentially abstracts the visible world, reducing its surfaces to two dimensions, editing down to a narrowly chosen single frame, and often presenting the world in black and white. Digital technologies of recent decades, allowing for seamless manipulation of photographs, have further eroded photography’s documentary authority. Surrealism historically played on these contradictions, conjuring from within the photographic image the eerie, the uncanny, and the outright bizarre. “The Undocument” was an exploration of alternate understandings of the documentary photograph— its claims to objective realism and simultaneous potential for pure fantasy.

📸 Ryan Elliott Freedom

05/04/2026

This mantra is essentially a blueprint for a life lived with creative intention and zero apology.

05/04/2026

The Poetic Approach .
Softness in Stone ✨
There is a profound silence in the work of Giuseppe Graziosi. In this detail, we see the impossible: marble transformed into the delicate fold of fabric and the gentle pressure of a hand. Graziosi didn’t just carve figures; he captured the very essence of human touch.
Mastering the tension between the hardness of the medium and the softness of the subject, this piece remains a testament to the Italian Realist tradition.

11/09/2025

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