Best Of2024

Changing tent in Taft Museum of Art's Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960
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Changing tent in Taft Museum of Art's Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960

The Taft Museum’s presentation of a traveling exhibit on the history of women’s sporting outfits, Sporting Fashion: Outdoor Girls 1800 to 1960, displayed examples of all sorts of clothing and accessories for horseback riding, motorcycling, baseball — even piloting an airplane. But the strangest outfit was a cotton flannel “personal changing tent” (a kind of wearable, portable, changing room) held aloft by a steel hoop for use where there were no changing rooms and the ocean was beckoning. Once the woman had changed into a bathing suit, she unhooked the neck closure and her wearable tent fell to the ground. Today, it seems both modest and slightly naughty. taftmuseum.org.

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