Identity and Dissemblance in an Art Hotel

Hotels, etymologically speaking, are a French invention, sheltering structures whose function was to provide care and nurture--as in the famous and endangered Hotel Dieu in Paris beside the Seine. Next month, the 21c "art hotel" in downtown Cincinnati, celebrates its first anniversary, and the current exhibition show does anything but calm the agitated soul, no matter the exquisite comforts offered in its high design rooms and suites. The exhibit, "Dissemblance: Projecting and Perceiving Identit...