by Conservation

11/18/2021

CAMConservation , conservation , textile conservation , textiles , Elizabeth Hawes , behind the scenes

We’ve come a long way on the treatment of the Elizabeth Hawes flag dress! If

by Cincinnati Art Museum

11/18/2021

Gift Shop , Gift Guide , gifts , art inspired gifts , artistic gifts , unique gifts

Gift with the museum this year and make it a holiday to remember.

by Cynthia Amnéus, Chief Curator/Curator of Fashion Arts and Textiles

11/17/2021

Simply Brilliant , Cynthia Amnéus , Romolo Grassi , Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s , Mantide Mimetica , objet d'art

Exploring Romolo Grassi—one of the ‘forgotten’ jewelers in the exhibition.

by Cincinnati Art Museum

11/12/2021

fashion , Fashion Arts & Textiles , Cynthia Amnéus , Issey Miyake

Cincinnati Art Museum x Idlewild Woman x Issey Miyake

by Cincinnati Art Museum

11/11/2021

Kara Walker , about the artist , artist bio , Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick

Kara Walker, born in 1969 in Stockton, California and raised in Atlanta, Georgia from the age of 13, is best known for her groundbreaking large-scale silhouette tableaux.

by Conservation

11/3/2021

paintings conservation , inpainting , conservation paints , pigments

No, it’s just the morning sun hitting our jars of dry pigments through the blinds, a brief exposure that does no harm.

by Cincinnati Art Museum

10/29/2021

Native American art , National Native American Heritage Month , indigenous art

Enjoy these works by indigenous peoples in the museum’s permanent collection.

by Conservation

10/28/2021

Wu Zhongxiong , Asian painting conservation , Asian painting , paper , paper conservation

Shown here is a painting by Wu Zhongxiong that was selected by the Curator of Asian art to include in our next grant application.

by Conservation

10/21/2021

CAMConservation , textile conservation , textiles , Fashion Arts & Textiles , vintage , Pucci

Usually, clothing is tailored to fit the body. But in the museum, we tailor a body to fit the clothing!

by Conservation

10/14/2021

objects conservation , object conservation , CAMConservation , ceramics conservation , archaeological conservation

Catch this object on view later this year when our Nabatean collections return to the galleries.

by Conservation

10/8/2021

CAMConservation , paintings conservation , Robert Frederick Blum , Venetian Lacemakers , loans

Conservators strive to ensure that their conservation treatments will preserve each artwork for numerous decades or, we hope, even longer.

by Conservation

9/30/2021

CAMConservation , paper conservation , Robert Frederick Blum

The print is now on its way to the Smithsonian Museum of American Art in Washington, D.C. with three other Cincinnati Art Museum pieces for exhibit in Sargent, Whistler, and Venetian Glass: American Artists and the Magic of Murano.

by Conservation

9/24/2021

CAMConservation , textile conservation , textiles , light sensitivity , fading

The Potluck is ready to serve!

by CAM Digital Staff

9/23/2021

ghost stories , haunted museum , scavenger hunt , tour guide , halloween

Enjoy this Ghost Tour Guide, if you dare...

by Conservation

9/15/2021

behind the scenes , object conservation , objects conservation , CAMConservation , silver conservation

In the objects conservation lab this week: we have a beautiful, though heavily tarnished, 19th C silver bowl in the lab being treated before going on display next year.

by Cincinnati Art Museum

9/10/2021

National Hispanic Heritage Month

Enjoy these works by or about Hispanic and Latinx artists in the museum’s permanent collection.

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9/9/2021

Elizabeth Boott Duveneck , Frank Duveneck , CAMConservation , paintings conservation , cleaning paintings

“Blossoms” has just received its new frame, so look for it to pop up on the wall of our American galleries in the near future.

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9/2/2021

Constance McClure , Art Academy of Cincinnati

Visit the Art Academy to see Never a Day Without Drawing, on view from August 23 to September 9, 2021.

by Conservation

8/26/2021

CAMConservation , conservation , textile conservation , textiles , Elizabeth Hawes , behind the scenes

It’s time for a bath in textile conservation.

by By Lynne Pearson, Curatorial Assistant, East Asian Art

8/25/2021

Laughing Buddha , Seven Lucky Gods , Hotei , East Asian Art , Walter and Vanida Davison , Hou-Mei Sung , Enduring Beauty: East Asian Lacquer , Tsuchiya Gado , prints

Earlier this year, longtime donors Walter and Vanida Davison gifted the Art Museum this beautiful 20th century Japanese painting depicting the Buddhist deity Hotei from their family art collection. Who is Hotei?

by Conservation

8/19/2021

behind the scenes , objects conservation , CAMConservation

In Objects Conservation: This 19th C carved wooden box is in the lab undergoing conservation before display in an upcoming reinstallation of our South Asian Art Galleries.

by Conservation

8/11/2021

conservation , paintings conservation , neapolitan , still lifes , CAMConservation , inpainting , hidden_paintings

The large Neapolitan still-life is back — with a new look.

by Trisha Brockmeyer & Geoff Edwards

8/6/2021

Paintings , Politics and the Monument’s Men: The Berlin Masterpieces , Monuments Men , Walter Farmer , Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives , Trisha Brockmeyer , Geoff Edwards , archives , Cincinnati history , World War II

Although perhaps best known for his wartime service, a new donation of papers and photographs to the Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives is helping to shed light on Walter Farmer’s life and work beyond the Monuments Men.

by Adam Ranz, pre-program conservation intern

8/3/2021

Nancy Rexroth , archives , archival storage , Cassette tape storage

With such a wide array of objects this collection will serve as a spectacular resource for the museum, scholars, and visitors alike.

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7/29/2021

CAMConservation , textile conservation , textiles , behind the scenes , interns , kente , Jane Burch Cochran

This summer, Michelle Leung has the amazing opportunity to intern here in textile conservation, funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

by Trudy Gaba, Curatorial Assistant of South Asian Art, Islamic Art, and Antiquities

7/27/2021

ancient Middle East , digital engagement , Persepolis , Middle East galleries , Khirbet et-Tannur

Encouraging a deeper, more layered understanding of select objects from the ancient Middle East galleries, returning winter 2021.

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7/22/2021

islamic ceramics , minaiware , ceramics conservation , behind the scenes , objects conservation , CAMConservation

Catch this newly stabilized object back on display in the Islamic galleries later this year!

by Conservation

7/15/2021

CAMConservation , paintings conservation , X-ray , X-raying_paintings , X-radiography , hidden_paintings

Our paintings conservator has been working on this very large 17th century Neapolitan still-life.

by Conservation

7/1/2021

CAMConservation , textile conservation , textiles , hanbok , behind the scenes , magnets , museum mounts

Woman’s folk costume, 1900-1950, Korea, glazed linen; Gift of Mrs. Charles F. Mosher, 1966.1505ab

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6/24/2021

ceramics conservation , ceramics , islamic ceramics , Islamic Art , behind the scenes , objects conservation , CAMConservation

This week in objects conservation: Anytime an object is selected for display our objects conservator assesses its condition to determine whether it is stable, or whether it needs conservation treatment before display.