May 2020
One Each: Still Lifes by Pissarro, Cézanne, Manet & Friends Exhibit
Photo credit: Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) One Each: Still Lifes by Pissarro, Cézanne, Manet & Friends comes to the Cincinnati Art Museum Summer 2020! One Each: Still Lifes by Cézanne, Pissarro, and Friends focuses on still life paintings by five French painters, all created in the mid-1860s, the formative years of Impressionism. This single-gallery special exhibition, organized in partnership with the Toledo Museum of Art, will be on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum from May 15–August 9. The…
Find out more »Romare Bearden Exhibit Comes to the Queen City
Photo provided by Cincinnati Art Museum Romare Bearden expresses the struggles and triumphs of African Americans in "Something Over Something Else". The Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibition Schedule features the Romare Bearden Exhibit "Something Over Something Else". In 1977, a “Profile” of Bearden by Calvin Tompkins in the New Yorker provoked the artist to reflect upon his childhood and maturity during the 1920s and 30s. The result was a two-part series that traces his journey from rural Mecklenburg, North…
Find out more »June 2020
Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces Exhibit
Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces comes to the Cincinnati Art Museum! Paintings, Politics, and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces exhibition focuses on the fate of 202 of the finest European paintings from the Berlin State Museums that traveled to the United States in 1945 and were exhibited at the National Gallery of Art and 13 other museums across the country in 1948–49 before returning to Germany. The exhibition addresses Nazi expropriation of artworks during…
Find out more »July 2020
Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal Exhibit
Photo credit: Cincinnati Art Museum Press Release Hank Willis Thomas Cincinnati: All Things Being Equal… comes to the Cincinnati Art Museum! The first major survey of the work of one of America’s most important conceptual artists, Hank Willis Thomas. Thomas has fearlessly addressed racism, inequality and bias in bold, skillfully crafted works. Through photographs, sculpture, video, audience-activated digital animation and collaborative public art projects, he invites us to consider the role of popular visual culture in perpetuating discrimination and how…
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