Cincinnati Art Museum

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Woo Chong Yung 吳仲熊 (1898–1989), also known in the United States as C.Y. Woo, was a highly accomplished painter, calligrapher, and poet from Shanghai. From the 1920s to 1949, Woo was at the center of China’s cultural world, recognized in the art circles of both Shanghai and Beijing. Faced with political persecution in the 1960s, Woo migrated to Columbus, Ohio right before the Cultural Revolution. Once in the United States, Woo became an active presence in the local community, teaching classes in Chinese painting and martial arts and contributing his talents to local arts councils and ethnic festivals in Columbus and central Ohio. By the end of his life, he had essentially become a living legend in Columbus.

From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung (1898–1989) features 88 works, including painting and calligraphy, carved seals, and a Taiji sword drawn from the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum and The Frank Museum of Art at Otterbein University. Few of these paintings have ever been published or publicly displayed. Woo’s lifetime body of work illustrates how his remarkable experiences of emigrating from China and becoming an American utterly transformed and reshaped both his life and painti

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Four full-scale, bronze figures by renowned sculptor Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917) will be on view at the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) this summer. Alongside them, visitors will see the culmination of a research and creative project led by artist and educator Supermrin that involved contemporary artists, University of Cincinnati (UC) undergraduates, and the breadth of CAM’s collections. Rodin | Response: FIELD family secrets will run June 14–September 8, 2024.

Rodin conceived the statues in the 1880s as part of The Burghers of Calais. One of the artist’s most revered and recognizable works, the monument commemorates six leading citizens of Calais who offered their lives to save their city in the mid-1300s.

These monumental bronzes provided the starting point for a semester-long journey of study, conversation, critique, and creation that took place across several courses at UC’s School of Art. The project was shaped through FIELD, Supermrin’s (Mrin Aggarwal) decolonial bio-art practice. The group worked to respond to Rodin’s accomplishments in sculpture and the complex history of France and its colonies at the turn of the 20th century, exploring the afterlives of modernism and colonialism through the art of today.

Rodin | Response: FIELD Family Secrets is organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum in collaboration with Supermrin and the School of Art, University of Cincinnati, and with the participation of the Iris Cantor Collection. The exhibition is sponsored by the Harold C. Schott Foundation.

In celebration of hip hop’s remarkable, decades-long impact and influence on society, the Cincinnati Art Museum (CAM) will host the groundbreaking exhibition The Culture: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, on view from June 28–September 29, 2024.

The multimedia exhibition showcases more than 90 works of art by some of today’s most important and celebrated artists–such as Banksy, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Roberto Lugo, Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Bradford, William Cordova, Hassan Hajjaj and Hank Willis Thomas–and fashion brands, with looks from Chanel, Gucci, Cross Colours, Vivienne Westwood and Virgil Abloh’s collections for Louis Vuitton. A range of music ephemera will also be on display.

Explore hip hop’s extraordinary influence on contemporary society over the past two decades during this can’t-miss exhibition of the summer!

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Saturday, August 3, 2024 at 1–3 p.m.

Free. Reservations not required.

Art on the Rise takes center stage on Art Climb, the museum’s hillside sculpture garden and stairway linking the museum campus to Gilbert Avenue. This innovative monthly program, built on community partnerships, brings together live performances and art-making activities—with an abundance of fun for all participants!

Continuing the celebration, August’s Art on The Rise hosts community partners Heroes Rise, Band in a Bus, and Cincinnati Music Accelerator to provide workshops for visitors of all ages and abilities. Food for purchase by Jill’s Mobile Kitchen.

Parking is limited—weather permitting.

If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org or fill out the accessibility request form.

Saturday, August 10, 2024 at 1–3 p.m.

Reservations required.
Members: $10
General public: $20

Tickets will be available one month prior to the event date.

Join us for an engaging Gallery Talk Plus event featuring a captivating gallery discussion led by Curator of East Asian Art, Hou-mei Sung, PhD. This special program, held in conjunction with the exhibition From Shanghai to Ohio: Woo Chong Yung, will also showcase dynamic taiji (tai chi) performances by Master Sen Gao and exquisite brush painting demonstrations by artist Yufeng Wang, PhD. Experience the rich cultural heritage and artistic mastery as the fluid movements of taiji and brush painting beautifully mirror each other in these unique and immersive presentations.

About the Artists:
Master Sen Gao

Master Sen Gao started his training in Wushu (Chinese martial arts) at the age of six in his native province of Shandong, China.

As a young boy, he was selected to perform all over Western Europe with the Shaolin Monks due to his talent and skill. To further develop his Wushu career, he later joined the Liaoning professional Wushu team where he received national recognition and won countless medals.

Master Sen Gao specializes in Wushu and taiji. He is a seventh degree black belt in wushu and a nine-time world champion in weapons and forms. Learn more about Master Gao’s performances.

Yufeng Wang, PhD

Yufeng Wang, PhD, is a professor and a Chinese brush painting artist based in Dayton, Ohio. As a teenager, her love of traditional Chinese art was inspired by renowned artists Sun Qifeng and Fan Zeng in Tianjin, China. Dr. Wang’s artwork aspires to create a sense of peace and harmony in nature and humanity. Her paintings have received many awards including the Dayton Painters and Sculptors Award and the Burnell Roberts Purchase Award. Dr. Wang’s work is in the collection of numerous institutions including Sinclair College and Wright State University. She has taught brush painting at the Dayton Association of Artists, Dayton Metro Public Library, Dayton Miami Valley Schools, Wright State University, Sinclair College, the Dayton Business and Technology High School, Dayton Woman’s Club, and the 2022 Dayton Art in the City Event. Dr. Wang was the featured artist in the March 2023 Art Exhibition at the Springboro Performing Arts Center. Learn more about Dr. Wang. 

image credit: Woo Chong Yung (C.Y. Woo) 吳仲熊 (1898–1989), Landscape, 1970, hanging scroll, ink on paper, CAM, C.Y. Woo Collection, donated by T.H. Wu, 2015.324

If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org or fill out the accessibility request form.

Friday, August 16, 2024 at 7 p.m.

Reservations required.

Members: $10

General public: $20

Students with active college ID: $5

Join us for a unique event: The Thinker, an immersive production presented by the Cincinnati Art Museum where performers pop up around the audience, much like a flash mob, as the performance moves into various galleries where the audience is encouraged to follow the narrative. 

A short opera, The Thinker explores the colorful life of French sculptor Auguste Rodin and highlights his humble beginnings, salacious affairs, life-long love for Rose Beuret, and his encounters with iconic contemporaries, including Claude Monet and Henri Matisse.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Cash bar available.

About the composer:

Nathan Felix is a Mexican American composer known for his immersive operas and experimental films. Felix has premiered 15 operas, four symphonies, and various chamber works in Spain, Japan, Australia, Bulgaria, Portugal, China, Sweden, Denmark, Mongolia, and the United States and has been featured on the BBC, MTV, NPR, TPR, and PBS. Felix, a non-award-winning composer, often focuses on telling Latinx themed and minority stories that highlight border issues, underserved communities, and his Hispanic heritage.

If you need accessibility accommodations, please contact us in advance at access@cincyart.org

Discovering Ansel Adams
September 27, 2024–January 19, 2025
The Thomas R. Schiff Gallery (Gallery 234 & 235)
Ticketed. Free for Members. Save $2 when purchasing tickets online.
Adult tickets: $12 in-person, $10 online
Seniors, college students and children 6–17 years: $8 in person, $6 online
Children 5 years & under: free

See the exhibition for free on Thursday nights from 5–8 p.m. and during Art After Dark on September 27 and October 25 from 5–9 p.m. FotoFocus passport holders have free entry from September 27–October 31.

Premiering at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Discovering Ansel Adams provides an unprecedented exploration of the early career of Ansel Adams (1902–1984), demonstrating how, between 1916 and the 1940s, Adams developed from a 14-year-old tourist with a camera into America’s most celebrated photographer. Drawn from the definitive Adams collection at the Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, the exhibition brings together approximately 80 virtuosic photographs with unique ephemera including the artist’s handwritten correspondence, snapshots, personal possessions, and photographic working materials. Featured works range from small, one-of-a-kind photographs from Adams’s teenage years to jaw-dropping mural-sized prints of his most iconic mature views. Join the artist on his journey from teenage musician to young mountaineer, as he makes his first pictures at Yosemite, experiences the American Southwest, learns how to communicate with a broad national audience, and undertakes an epic quest to photograph America’s national parks. Along the way, discover how Ansel Adams became Ansel Adams.

Founded in 1975 by the President of University of Arizona and Ansel Adams, the Center for Creative Photography is one of the world’s finest institutions for the study of the history of photography, and a singularly important archive for Ansel Adams studies. Discovering Ansel Adams presents a rare opportunity to encounter the CCP’s Ansel Adams collection outside of Arizona.