Making a Playlist for Discovering Ansel Adams
11/13/2024
You might not think that black and white nature photography and music go hand in hand, but for photographer Ansel Adams they did—and in the exhibition Discovering Ansel Adams, they do for CAM as well!
Discovering Ansel Adams – SketchCAM
9/27/2024
For this edition of SketchCAM, let’s take our sketchbook and pencil into Discovering Ansel Adams, featuring the landscape photography of Ansel Adams (1902–1984) on view from September 27, 2024 to January 19, 2025.
Accra and London, via Detroit
11/13/2023
In early October, I was delighted to participate in a scholars’ day at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). For those outside the museum biz, a scholars’ day is a convening of curators, academics, and sometimes expert collectors, artists, and gallerists, who gather to share a deep dive on an artist or movement featured in a special exhibition.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: View of the Museum on the Hill
9/28/2023
An interesting artifact has entered the museum Archives, courtesy of Archivist/Records Manager Geoff Edwards. This glass paperweight holds a small photograph of the museum and the Cincinnati Art Academy (now located downtown).
Looking at Things: Franz Hanfstaengl’s Photographs
8/15/2023
In 1871, the Royal Historical Museum in Dresden (the present-day Green Vault) commissioned German photographer Franz Hanfstaengl to document the objects in its collection. Among the 160 photographs produced, lively prints of five found their way to the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Photographs from the Collection: Looking At Animals
4/11/2023
From April 11–August 10, 2023, the hallway gallery at the top of the museum’s Great Hall staircase will be full of critters.
Evening for Educators Preview: Georgia O’Keeffe
2/16/2023
Inspired by the brilliant photography of Georgia O’Keeffe, Montessori students from the Xavier University Montessori Lab School experienced a novel three-part lesson about the innovative female artist.
Discovering IOWA
4/5/2021
IOWA was the kind of book that changed the way photography lovers could imagine the expressive possibilities of the medium. It stuck with people.
Trailblazing modernist photographer Germaine Krull enters CAM collection via the Mary R. Schiff Library & Archives
2/10/2021
Krull’s groundbreaking modernist work now resides in the Photography Collection at the museum.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: New to Women Breaking Boundaries
2/20/2020
The objects in the Women Breaking Boundaries exhibit in the galleries across from the café are examples of wide-ranging media, including light-sensitive objects.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Ready for his close-up?
8/15/2019
Sometimes a painting can make its feelings known.
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: A disappearing act!
5/23/2019
This large unfinished work by Frank Duveneck is in the paintings conservation lab to be examined.
Notes from Photography Storage: Three Japanese Ambrotypes
9/17/2018
Photography was first introduced to Japan in the 1840s, via the sole government-approved trading port in Nagasaki.
Singular Portrait: John James Audubon by photographer Mathew Brady
10/11/2017
Posted by: Emily Bauman
Behind the Scenes in Conservation: Kentucky Renaissance Installation
10/6/2016
Posted by: Conservation
Hooray for Hollywood! Now on display in #CAMLibrary…
3/22/2015
Posted By: Mary R. Schiff Library and Archives
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Toll Free: 1 (877) 472-4226
Museum Hours
Museum Shop
Terrace Café
Library
The Cincinnati Art Museum is supported by the generosity of tens of thousands of contributors to the ArtsWave Community Campaign, the region's primary source for arts funding.
Free general admission to the Cincinnati Art Museum is made possible by a gift from the Rosenthal Family Foundation. Exhibition pricing may vary. Parking at the Cincinnati Art Museum is free.
Generous support for our extended Thursday hours is provided by Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program.
General operating support provided by:
