January 2020
Art After Dark: Monochromatic
This photo is user submitted. Cincy Art After Dark is celebrating it's American South photography exhibit. All attending are encouraged to wear black and white. Art After Dark is back and we’re throwing a black and white party to celebrate 2020 and special photography exhibition The Levee: A Photographer in the American South (on view October 5, 2019 - February 2, 2020). This FREE event and open to the public. RSVP is not required. Enjoy live music, food…
Find out more »February 2020
The Levee: A Photographer in the American South Exhibit
Photo provided by Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati Art Museum to feature Sohrab Hura in The Levee: A Photographer in the American South. Contemporary Indian photographer Sohrab Hura receives his first solo museum exhibition, organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum, from October 5, 2019–February 2, 2020. The Levee: A Photographer in the American South presents an 83-picture suite titled The Levee, in which Hura explores themes of connection, perspective, and place. Free general admission to the Cincinnati Art Museum is…
Find out more »Moving Images: Daughters of Dust Film
Photo credit: Cincinnati Art Museum Daughters of Dust Film shows the struggle of the Gullah community to maintain their cultural heritage. At the dawn of the 20th century, a multi-generational family in the Gullah community on the Sea Islands off of South Carolina – former enslaved West Africans who adopted many of their ancestors’ Yoruba traditions – struggle to maintain their cultural heritage and folklore while contemplating a migration to the mainland, even further from their roots. This…
Find out more »Something Over Something Else Art Exhibit
Photo provided by Cincinnati Art Museum Artist Romare Bearden expresses the struggles and triumphs of African Americans in "Something Over Something Else". The Cincinnati Art Museum 2019 Exhibition Schedule features Romare Bearden’s "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 Carolina…
Find out more »March 2020
Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850–1970 Exhibit
Photo credit: Cincinnati Art Museum Press Release Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance comes to the Cincinnati Art Museum! This dazzling presentation of exceptional silver and mixed-metal wares casts new light on the legacy of Gorham and reflects the industry, artistry, innovation and technology of the manufactory for 120 years. Adeptly coupling art and industry, Gorham boldly rose from a small firm, established in 1831 in Providence, Rhode Island, to become the largest silver company in the world, placing uniquely American…
Find out more »Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance, 1850-1970
Photo provided by the Cincinnati Art Museum Come see the dazzling presentation of silver and mixed metals at the Cincinnati Art Museum Exhibit Gorham Silver. It runs March 13 - June 7. Explore a diverse collection of nearly 700 objects created by The Gorham Manufacturing Company, the Rhode Island-based firm that was once the world’s largest maker of silver, in special exhibition Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance, 1850–1970 on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum March 13–June 7, 2020. …
Find out more »May 2020
One Each: Still Lifes by Pissarro, Cézanne, Manet & Friends Exhibit
One Each: Still Lifes by Pissarro, Cézanne, Manet & Friends comes to the Cincinnati Art Museum Summer 2020! One Each is a one-gallery exhibition that features still life paintings by five French painters, all created in the mid-1860s—the formative years of Impressionism. Joining the Cincinnati Art Museum’s great painting by Paul Cézanne are sterling examples from the hand of Édouard Manet, regarded as the ‘father of modern painting’, and Camille Pissarro. Rounding out the group are a painting by…
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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