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Shinoda Toko's New Tribute, featuring two dark, crossed forms with intricate detail and a splash of red.

A Tribute to the Artistic Vision of Shinoda Tōkō

December 22, 2021–March 20, 2022

With impeccable placement, using a myriad of brushes, her simple bold strokes balance line and form, stillness and motion with delicate grays and intense blacks creating works of elegant visual poetry.

black hands lift a sailboat out of the dark waters where a female figure lies below the depths

Kara Walker: Cut to the Quick

From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation

November 5, 2021–January 16, 2022

Drawing on mythology, art history and American history, Walker’s art challenges viewers to take a critical and haunting view of the past while proposing questions around the challenges we continue to face collectively today.

clusters of pearls woven with coarse gold and studded with diamonds.

Simply Brilliant: Artist-Jewelers of the 1960s and 1970s

October 22, 2021–February 6, 2022

Drawn from one of the most important private collections in the world, assembled by Cincinnatian Kimberly Klosterman, this exhibition features the work of independent jewelers such as Andrew Grima, Gilbert Albert, Arthur King, Jean Vendome and Barbara Anton along with work created for Bulgari, Cartier, Boucheron and other major houses.

a rectangular, abstract painting with golden hues featuring Hebrew letters scattered around the face of what appears to be an old man playing a horn

The Jewish Holidays by Chaim Gross

August 24, 2021–December 12, 2021 | Gallery 213

Lithographs recapturing the color of Gross' Hassidic childhood, accompanied by explanations of the ten holiest days of the Jewish calendar written by Rabbi Avraham Soltes.

Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces in America

Now–October 3, 2021

This exhibition focuses on the fate of some of the finest European paintings from the Berlin State Museums that traveled to the United States soon after the end of the war and were exhibited at fourteen museums across the country before returning to Germany.

rainbow patterned heels with a black floral pattern studded in small glass jewels

Stepping in Style: Evening Shoes of the 1950s

March 23, 2021–March 27, 2022

Pulled from the museum’s permanent collection, Stepping in Style features 22 pairs of elegant evening shoes from the 1950s.

a horizontal painting in golden yellows, with smaller rectangular sections and a layer of coarse green strokes across the painting

American Painting: The Eighties Revisited

November 20, 2021–January 30, 2022

An exhibition of 41 evocative paintings sparked an art world commotion in the late 1970s. Now, a reconstruction of the exhibition is coming to the Cincinnati Art Museum.

For Now or Future Retrieval

Now–August 15, 2021 | Gallery 150

In addition to creating the special exhibition Future Retrieval: Close Parallel, contemporary artists Katie Parker and Guy Michael Davis have curated this delightfully eclectic display of ceramics created by artists from across the globe over the last 400 years.

Future Retrieval: Close Parallel

Now–August 29, 2021

Artworks from the museum’s permanent collection are reimagined in this new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibition.