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Discover the Taft’s Current Exhibitions—Now on View
For the Taft historic house's bicentennial year, discover renewed insights into our storied collection in our Fifth Third Gallery, with our community partners, and online. Exhibitions change seasonally and offer a variety of informative or interactive events and programs.
In a New Light | Treasures from the Taft
July 3, 2021–May 1, 2022 | Fifth Third Gallery
In a New Light explores a broad range of eras, cultures, and art forms through their historical context, subject matter, materials, and makers. European decorative arts and Chinese porcelains dazzle the eye with their intricate designs and brilliant colors. Nineteenth-century American furniture impresses us with its stately elegance. European and American portraits and landscape paintings show off the mastery of some of the greatest artists of the past. Through select works, the exhibition will reveal centuries-old social concerns such as the distribution of wealth, environmental destruction, and gender and racial inequality.
Thomas Gainsborough (English, 1727–1788), Maria Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester, about 1779, oil on canvas. Taft Museum of Art, 1931.406
Borrowed Gems from the Taft Museum of Art
July 23, 2021–February 21, 2022 | Cincinnati Museum Center
The Taft Museum of Art shares more than 40 works of art with audiences at the Cincinnati Museum Center this summer. Borrowed Gems tells the story of the Tafts’ collection and its impact on the Cincinnati community. Portraits, landscape paintings and decorative art reveal how the collection inspired Cincinnati artisans to create beautiful objects of their own. Through their vision as art collectors and philanthropists, Charles and Anna Taft left a legacy that continues to inspire each generation anew.