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32-752: The Contemporary Arts Center was founded as the Modern Art Society in 1939 by Betty Pollak Rauh, Peggy Frank Crawford and Rita Rentschler Cushman. These three women were able to raise enough money through donations to display modern art at the Cincinnati Art Museum . Early advice and encouragement was offered by both Edward M.M. Warburg, a friend of the Pollak family, as well as Alfred H. Barr . The society's very first exhibit, Modern Painting from Cincinnati Collections, opened in December of

64-589: A New Zealand collection. The domestic competition was entitled "Formica Formations". Queenstown designer Graham Roebeck of Structural Integrity Ltd won the Professional category and Auckland Unitec student Norman Lin, the emerging designer category. In 1990, a Cincinnati jury acquitted the Contemporary Arts Center and its director, Dennis Barrie , of obscenity charges stemming from an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe . In

96-399: A large collection of paintings by American painter Frank Duveneck ( Elizabeth B. Duveneck ). In 2022 the museum discovered a portrait beneath Paul Cézanne 's 1865 Still Life with Bread and Eggs when its chief conservator , Serena Urry, removing the painting from an exhibit in which it had been included and examining it for potential maintenance requirements, noticed unusual patterns in

128-574: A result, in 2010 the museum mounted "See America", nine small shows that highlighted different parts of the country through the museum’s collection. Attendance at the museum has increased by 30 percent since it started emphasizing its permanent collection. General admission is always free to the Cincinnati Art Museum’s 73 permanent collection galleries and the Rosenthal Education Center (REC) family interactive center of

160-564: Is a museum director responsible for the curation of American pop culture . He was the Director of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center from 1983–1992. In 1990 Barrie and the gallery were indicted on obscenity charges stemming from exhibiting sadomasochistic photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe as part of an exhibit entitled The Perfect Moment . This was the first criminal trial of an art museum over

192-723: Is an art museum in the Eden Park neighborhood of Cincinnati, Ohio . Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Alleghenies , and is one of the oldest in the United States. Its collection of over 67,000 works spanning 6,000 years of human history make it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Midwest . Museum founders debated locating the museum in either Burnet Woods , Eden Park, or downtown Cincinnati on Washington Park . Charles West,

224-784: Is part of the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network, launched in 2021 by the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art . In the late nineteenth century, public art museums were still very much a new phenomenon, especially as far west as Cincinnati. Following the success of the 1876 Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia, the Women's Art Museum Association was organized in Cincinnati with

256-743: The Cincinnati Art Museum from the Mary E. Johnston collection. Construction on the Emery Wing at the Cincinnati Art Museum replaced the original space of the CAC. As a result of the museum’s need to expand, the center moved out in 1962 and temporarily inhabited various locations at the Taft Museum of Art , space at 608 Main Street, and the Carew Tower . In 1964 the center occupied the fourth floor of

288-623: The National Endowment for the Arts . If convicted, the center would have faced fines of up to $ 10,000; Barrie could have faced a year in jail and fines up to $ 2,000. The trial was chronicled in the 2000 television movie Dirty Pictures . 44 East 6th Street (Corner of 6th & Walnut), Cincinnati, OH 45202 Across Walnut Street from the Aronoff Center for the Arts in downtown Cincinnati's cultural and entertainment area known as

320-599: The Art Academy of Cincinnati officially left the museum's Eden Park campus, relocating to Over-the-Rhine. As of June 2020, the Cincinnati Art Museum and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, were both undergoing major renovations, including a new outdoor civic and art space titled "Art Climb". Art Climb includes a staircase from the sidewalk near the intersection of Eden Park Drive and Gilbert Avenue leading to

352-594: The Backstage District. In 2003, the CAC moved to its first free-standing home which was designed by Zaha Hadid . The CAC chose to honor two of its major donors by naming the building the Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art . The Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art was Zaha Hadid's first American project. Hailed by The New York Times ' architecture critic Herbert Muschamp as "the most important American building to be completed since

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384-498: The CAC focused on the site at Sixth and Walnut. By 1997 the center’s Architectural Selection Committee was publicly seeking architects to design the CAC's first-free standing building. The search narrowed 97 statements of qualification to twelve semi finalists: Coop Himmelblau , Diller & Scofidio, Herzog & de Meuron , Steven Holl , Rem Koolhaas , Eric Owen Moss , Jean Nouvel , Toyo Ito , Antoine Predock , Zaha Hadid , Daniel Liebeskind and Bernard Tschumi . One year later

416-567: The CAC was able to put on over 400 exhibitions during its 30-year stay on Government Square. A permanent lease for the location was acquired in 1982 through a city bond. Early proposals for a new home began at the end of the 1980s and included possible locations at the Ohio Mechanics Institute (currently the Emery Center) and the Aronoff Center . Later, as the idea of constructing an entirely new building became possible,

448-564: The Contemporary Arts Center announced the exhibition and auction "FORM: Contemporary Architects at Play". Participating architects included: Christie's Fine Arts Division sold eight pieces and one concept at auction raising $ 425,000. In March 2011 the Laminex Group brought the collection to New Zealand for the Auckland Arts Festival and invited New Zealand architects and design professionals to submit entries for

480-523: The McMicken School relocated to the newly built museum campus and was renamed the Art Academy of Cincinnati . The Cincinnati Art Museum enjoyed the support of the community from the beginning. Generous donations from a number of prominent Cincinnatians, including Melville E. Ingalls , grew the collection to number in the tens of thousands of objects, which soon necessitated the addition of

512-620: The Monuments Men: The Berlin Masterpieces in America , Hank Willis Thomas: All Things Being Equal... , and No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man . The Cincinnati Art Museum's approach to hosting special exhibitions has changed over time. The museum found it impractical to spend as much as $ 2.5 million a year on special exhibitions when it has unexploited holdings like circus posters and Dutch contemporary design, especially given its declining endowment. As

544-593: The Women’s Exchange building at 113 West Fourth street where it remained for six years. After two years on Fourth street the center announced that it had plans to move to the Mercantile Center on Fifth street, which opened in 1970. The new building cost $ 400,000 and was designed by Harry Weese . The CAC’s space covered about 12,000 square feet (1,100 m) and overlooked the new bus terminal in downtown Cincinnati. Despite early financial troubles in 1971,

576-845: The art museum entrance. Consisting of multiple flights of steps, Art Climb opens up the museum grounds, connects the museum to its neighbors, and provides a space to incorporate outdoor artworks. The art museum has paintings by several European masters, including: Master of San Baudelio, Jorge Ingles, Sandro Botticelli ( Judith with Head of Holofernes ), Matteo di Giovanni , Domenico Tintoretto ( Portrait of Venetian dux Marino Grimani ), Mattia Preti , Bernardo Strozzi , Frans Hals , Bartolomé Esteban Murillo ( St. Thomas of Villanueva ), Peter Paul Rubens ( Samson and Delilah ) and Aert van der Neer . The collection also includes works by Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Camille Pissarro , Claude Monet ( Rocks At Belle Isle ), Vincent van Gogh , and Pablo Picasso . The museum also has

608-500: The board granted the commission to Zaha Hadid. Construction began in 2001 and the new building opened on May 31, 2003. In 1988, the CAC put Metrobot by Nam June Paik on permanent exhibition in front of its Mercantile Center location on Fifth Street. It remained there after the CAC moved to Walnut Street, until it went into storage in 2009. In 2014, it was reinstalled in front of the Walnut Street location. In March 2008,

640-644: The cold war," the project was the brainchild of Director Charles Desmarais . (Desmarais left the CAC for the Brooklyn Museum in early 2005.) The building's footprint is 11,000 square feet (1,000 m), with a total area of 80,000 square feet (7,400 m) on seven floors. The project cost $ 34 million, with design features including "Urban Carpet", "Jigsaw Puzzle", and "Skin/Sculpture". 39°06′10″N 84°30′44″W  /  39.102909°N 84.512243°W  / 39.102909; -84.512243 Cincinnati Art Museum The Cincinnati Art Museum

672-520: The contents of an exhibition. At trial, a Cincinnati jury acquitted Barrie and the Center. The controversy was later chronicled in a TV movie titled Dirty Pictures . Barrie went on to become a co-creator of Cleveland's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame , where he served as an executive director from 1993–1998. From 1998 to 2005 Barrie served as president of the Malrite Company where he oversaw

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704-473: The cracking and "on a hunch" had it x-rayed . The museum's Decorative Arts and Design collection includes over 7,000 works, including works by Paul de Lamerie , Karen LaMonte , Kitaro Shirayamadani , Jean-Pierre Latz , and many more. The Cincinnati Art Museum hosts several national and international special exhibitions each year. Each exhibition is accompanied by public programs, activities and special events. Exhibitions included Paintings, Politics and

736-554: The first criminal trial of an art museum over the contents of an exhibition, the case centered on seven out of 175 photographs in an exhibition ( The Perfect Moment ) that traveled from Berkeley to Boston; five of the seven photographs depicted men in sadomasochistic poses and were the basis of charges that the museum and its director had pandered obscenity. Much of the dispute over the Mapplethorpe photographs centered on whether federal money should be used to finance them, through

768-710: The first of several Art Museum expansions. In 1907 the Schmidlapp Wing opened, which was followed by a series of building projects. The addition of the Emery (named after Cincinnati philanthropists Thomas J. Emery and his wife Mary Emery ), Hanna and French wings in the 1930s enclosed the courtyard and gave the Art Museum its current rectangular shape and provided the space in which the American, European and Asian collections are currently shown. Renovations during

800-642: The intent of bringing such an institution to the region for the benefit of all citizens. Enthusiasm for these goals grew steadily and by 1881 the Cincinnati Museum Association was incorporated. The art museum was at first temporarily housed in the south wing of Music Hall in Over-the-Rhine . Just five years later, or on May 17, 1886, the Art Museum building in Eden Park was dedicated with elaborate ceremonies. In November 1887,

832-483: The largest pieces in the collection. Fantacchiotti created these angels for the main altar of St. Peter in Chains Cathedral in the late 1840s. They were among the first European sculptures to come to Cincinnati. The Cincinnati Wing also contains the work of Frank Duveneck , Rookwood Pottery , Robert Scott Duncanson , Mitchell & Rammelsberg Furniture, and a tall case clock by Luman Watson . The CAM

864-557: The late 1940s and early 1950s divided the Great Hall into two floors and the present main entrance to the Art Museum was established. The 1965 completion of the Adams-Emery wing added space for the permanent collection, lecture halls and temporary exhibition galleries. In 1993, a $ 13 million project restored the grandeur of the Art Museum's interior architecture and uncovered long-hidden architectural details. This project included

896-648: The major donor of the early museum, cast his votes in favor of Eden Park sealing its final location. The Romanesque-revival building designed by Cincinnati architect James W. McLaughlin opened in 1886. A series of additions and renovations have considerably altered the building over its 138-year history. In 2003, a major addition, The Cincinnati Wing was added to house a permanent exhibit of art created for Cincinnati or by Cincinnati artists since 1788. The Cincinnati Wing includes fifteen new galleries covering 18,000 square feet (1,700 m ) of well-appointed space, and 400 objects. The Odoardo Fantacchiotti angels are two of

928-732: The museum, thanks to the Richard and Lois Rosenthal Foundation, the Thomas J. Emery Endowment and an endowment established by the Cincinnati Financial Corporation /The Cincinnati Insurance Companies. The Art Museum, located at 953 Eden Park Drive in Eden Park , is open Tuesdays through Sundays. By 2011, the museum's endowment was down to about $ 70 million from about $ 80 million in 2008. The endowment soon recovered to pre-recession levels, valued at $ 87 million in 2014. Dennis Barrie Dennis Barrie (born 1947)

960-418: The renovation of one of the Art Museum's signature spaces, the Great Hall. In addition, new gallery space was created and lighting and climate control were improved. The Art Museum's temporary exhibition space was expanded to approximately 10,000 square feet (930 m ) to accommodate major temporary exhibitions. In 1998, the museum's board decided to separate the museum from the Art Academy of Cincinnati. By

992-472: The same year. In 1954 the Modern Art Society adopted its current name, the Contemporary Arts Center. The name change coincided with the creation of two permanent galleries that were remodeled from part of the museum's lower level. These two spaces, designed by Carl Strauss and Ray Roush, consisted of about 900 square feet (84 m) each and featured movable wooden wall covers. Many local Cincinnati collections were shown in this space, including works now kept at

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1024-589: The turn of the twenty-first century, the Art Museum's collection numbered over 60,000 objects and, today, is the largest in the state of Ohio. In 2003, the Cincinnati Art Museum deepened its ties with the Greater Cincinnati community by opening the popular and expansive Cincinnati Wing, the first permanent display of a city's art history in the nation. In addition, on May 17, 2003, the Art Museum eliminated its general admission fee forever, made possible by The Lois and Richard Rosenthal Foundation . In 2005,

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