Arts & Culture

The undiscovered country

Matt Desmond

A literature professor once told me that "everyone should spend fifteen minutes a day thinking about Hamlet."

A look at a changing time

Matt Desmond

The eagerly anticipated major exhibition featuring the portraits of Edouard Manet will open in October at the Toledo Museum of Art

Capturing a century

Scott Recker

Walter Chapman is a master of capturing the things he sees.

Off the wall

Julian Garcia

Cruise down Adams Street in Toledo’s Uptown District and it’s hard to miss the waves of color adorning the side of a building adjacent to Wesley’s Bar, between 12th and 13th.

Pop-up art village

Scott Recker

A small commercial village turns into Northwest Ohio’s largest art gallery during the 8th annual Levis Commons Art Fair.

All things must pass

Scott Recker

People hold on to bittersweet memories of the past in many different ways, but capturing that fragile nostalgia through art has always been a vivid way to close the gap.

Locally raised

TCP Contributor

A compilation of four different plays, Home Grown is the A2CT Studio Series season opener.

Signs and wonders

Matt Desmond

If two words can create exactly opposite impressions, “billboard” and “beauty” are a pair that qualify.

Albert Nobbs

TCP Contributor

"Albert Nobbs" Fearing a film somewhere between Howard's End and Victor, Victoria, this film definitely surprises.

Sketchy art

Julian Garcia

After sitting through office meetings do you check your notes later only to find a bunch of key words scribbled amongst hand-drawn butterflies, human eyes or pinwheels?

Raising the stakes

Scott Recker

Putting the city on the art world's map takes more than just artists; the galleries have to do their part as well, which is certainly happening here.

Hit the streets

Scott Recker

After last month’s successful Glass Hop, the Arts Commission of Greater Toledo keeps the second Thursday Art Walk series rolling on July 12.

Seeing in the dark

Scott Recker

Art is at its best when it's pushing boundaries.

By the time Lou “Looney” Mannhauser and I got to T.G.I. Friday's on Airport, we were already three sheets to the wind, from celebrating the finalization of his divorce since around 10:30 that morning.

The Family Fang

TCP Contributor

The Family Fang - Kevin Wilson Family trees can be a bitch. Just ask Annie and Buster Fang (Child A and B).

Opening act

Julian Garcia

There’s a new theatrical “un-company” in Toledo, the Catalyst Theatre Network, and they are set to explore the human condition outside the traditional isolated ensemble by collaborating more with the area’s already established theatre community.

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