Best Of2024

It’s been almost two years since the late, great Cincinnati Comics/Comix artist, sign painter and music aficionado Justin Green passed away — and the accolades keep coming. First there was an immersive retrospective of his life and work in 2021 in Northside, and now there’s a documentary, Married to Comics, about him and his equally gifted and still active artist-illustrator wife, Carol Tyler. It premiered last September at American Film Institute’s Silver Theatre in Maryland, and netted a major review/feature in the Washington Post as a result. Since then, buzz and media coverage have been building, and a second screening was held in Pittsburgh in December for the city’s Cultural Trust. Director John Kinhart says Cincinnati will be next, with Clifton’s Esquire Theatre earmarked to have two special event screenings in May. Stay tuned. 

Arts & Culture

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Here are the 2024 Best Of Cincinnati® Reader and Staff Pick winners for Arts & Culture.
  1. 21c Museum Hotel
  2. Pendleton Art Center
  3. Visionaries + Voices
  1. Cincinnati Art Museum
  2. Contemporary Arts Center
  3. American Sign Museum
  1. “Cincinnati Toy Heritage”
  2. “Fiona and Bibi at the Cincinnati Zoo”
  3. “Charley Harper's Beguiled by the Wild”
  1. Cincinnati Pride
  2. Flying Pig Marathon
  3. Asian Food Fest

  1. Panegyri
  2. Immaculate Heart of Mary Church Festival
  3. St. Cecilia Family Festival
  1. Ice Rink on Fountain Square
  2. Salsa on the Square
  3. Reds Opening Day Rally on the Square
  1. BLINK
  2. Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
  3. Findlay Market
  4. Cincinnati Art Museum
  5. Smale Riverfront Park
  6. Jungle Jim's International Market
  7. Tunes & Blooms at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
  8. Wednesdays in the Woods at the Clifton Cultural Arts Center
  9. TIE: Washington Park AND Contemporary Arts Center
  10. FotoFocus
  1. Art and Social Justice: An Interactive Experience, 21C Museum Hotel Gallery
  2. Yes, But Is It Art?, Studio Kroner
  3. Wish You Were Here, Kennedy Heights Arts Center
  1. Dent Schoolhouse
  2. Kings Island Halloween Haunt
  3. USS Nightmare
  1. Festival of Lights at the Cincinnati Zoo
  2. WinterFest at Kings Island
  3. Journey BOREALIS at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Park
  1. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden (@cincinnatizoo)
  2. Longbottom Bird Ranch (@longbottombirdranch)
  3. Friends of the Public Library (@cincylibraryfriends)
  1. Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden
  2. Children's Museum at the Cincinnati Museum Center
  3. Longbottom Bird Ranch
  1. Bob Herzog
  2. Darnell Pierre Benjamin
  3. Mark Borison
  1. Kiwi the Duck
  2. L. D. Nehls
  3. Michael Coppage
  1. Dann Woellert
  2. Curtis Sittenfeld
  3. Leah Stewart
  1. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
  2. Cincinnati Pops
  3. MUSE Cincinnati's Women’s Choir
  1. Mark Borison
  2. Kelly Collette
  3. Sweett Biscut
  1. Cincinnati Ballet
  2. Dance Flash Fusion
  3. Cin City Burlesque
  1. Mark Borison
  2. Cincy Stories
  3. Allyson West