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Renovations & Transformations: A Museum Makeover

by Franck Mercurio, Publications Editor

2/13/2024

Margaret H. DeWitt Entrance, Adams-Emery building, Potter, Tyler, Martin & Roth, Cincinnati Historical Society, Eve Disconsolate, emersion DESIGN, Triversity Construction, Renovations, Marek Family Commons

If you’ve visited the Cincinnati Art Museum in the past few months, you might have noticed construction work on the museum’s first floor, just past the Great Hall, where Hiram Power’s marble sculpture of Eve Disconsolate once stood.

Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

by Cincinnati Art Museum

11/16/2022

National Native American Heritage Month, Pueblos, New Mexico, Water Jar (Olla), Polychrome Jar, Maria Martinez, Mary Lewis Garcia

November is Native American Heritage Month—a time to celebrate the diverse societies, rich traditions, and complex histories of Indigenous Peoples here in North America and a time to acknowledge their vital contributions to American art and culture.

Behind the Scenes in Conservation: The British Invasion... of Conservation

by Conservation

11/10/2022

CAMConservation, paitings conservation, Martin Archer Shee

Our paintings conservator has just begun a big multi-year project, teaming with curators and other scholars, to examine CAM’s collection of 65+ paintings by British artists.

Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Recording Watermarks

by Conservation

3/19/2020

Martin Schongauer, beta radiography, watermarks, paper conservation, transmitted light

Our paper conservator has been in the darkroom capturing images of watermarks from some of our Old Master prints.