In addition to the Taft Museum of Art’s collection galleries, located in our historic house, guests can also enjoy special exhibitions in our Sinton Gallery and our Fifth Third Gallery. Discover our current seasonal exhibitions and schedule a day to enjoy the museum.
While the Taft Museum of Art’s portrait of Michiel de Wael travels to the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam for the first major comprehensive exhibition devoted to Frans Hals in 30 years, the Taft welcomes a rare work by another Dutch master, Jan Steen, on loan from the Rijksmuseum.
African Modernism in America features more than 60 dynamic and vivid works of art created in Africa during the 1950s and ‘60s. Co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Fisk University Galleries, the exhibition explores the relationships formed between African artists and American patrons, artists, and cultural organizations amid the interlocking histories of civil rights, decolonization, and the Cold War. The inventive nature of the works in this exhibition challenges the assumptions of the time about African art being isolated to a “primitive past.” Some pieces took inspiration from early Christian art, West African sculpture, and Nigerian literature, while others reflect the influences of American jazz and modern European art.
With their colorful petals, rippling water, and cloudy skies, the artworks in this exhibition invite contemplation of the natural world. Immerse yourself in crisp seaside sunshine or among ancient ruins at twilight. Swim along with ducks in a leafy pond or stroll through a pocket-sized garden. Charles and Anna Taft acquired hundreds of exquisite yet modestly sized artworks to display in their home, now the Taft Museum of Art. The six paintings and five works of decorative art in A Breath of Fresh Air come from the museum’s collection, but due to limited space in the museum’s room-sized galleries, they rarely go on public view.
Each year the ARC program immerses high school art students in Cincinnati’s visual arts community and exposes them to careers in the arts through studio visits and other field trips. Celebrate this special program and the students’ future careers with their own curated gallery show, Wonder, on view at The Annex Gallery.
Discover our European and American master paintings and sculptures, 17th- through 19th-century European watches, Chinese porcelains, French Renaissance enamels, and 19th-century American furniture in the collection galleries.
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