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The Cincinnati Art Museum and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center are currently nominated for two 10Best lists for favorite museums.
The Cincinnati Art Museum is in the running for the best free museum. The Alamo, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Cleveland Museum of Art, Institute of Contemporary Art in Miami, the U.S. Mint, and the Smithsonian Institute are also in the running.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center is nominated for the best history museum. It is competing against museums like the Ellis Island Immigration Museum, the National Museum of African American History and Culture, the National WWII Museum and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Prized works looted by Nazis during WWII at center of new Cincinnati Art Museum exhibit Share Updated: 10:08 AM EDT Apr 27, 2021 WLWT Digital Staff Provided by Cincinnati Art Museum Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, accompanied by Gen. Omar N. Bradley, left, CG, 12th Army Group, and Lt. George S. Patton, Jr., CG, US Third Army, inspects art treasures stolen by Germans and hidden in a salt mine in Germany. SOURCE: Provided by Cincinnati Art Museum
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Thousands of bees make their home at Cincinnati Art Museum The Queen City Pollinators worked with the Cincinnati Art Museum to put in two new beehives in Eden park (Source: WXIX) By Ashley Smith | April 23, 2021 at 4:07 PM EDT - Updated April 23 at 4:21 PM
CINCINNATI (FOX19) - The Cincinnati Art Museum has partnered with local beekeepers to bring thousands of new bees to the tri-state.
The Queen City Pollinators worked with the Cincinnati Art Museum to put in two new beehives in Eden park, and they say more will arrive soon.
The beekeepers say they brought in 20,000 bees to two hives to the museum grounds.
1:01 Curator Peter Jonathon Bell worked with museums in Berlin and across the country in order to bring this together, says Jill Dunne, director of marketing and communications. Bell s book of the same name is the basis for the exhibition. They tell the story of this historical moment when World War II was happening and the Nazis were involved in attempting to loot artworks, and talking about specific artwork that toured America in the 1940s and became the first blockbuster art exhibition that this country has ever seen.
Claude Lorrain (French, active in Italy, 1604–1682), An Artist Studying from Nature, 1639, oil on canvas.
Curious Objects: Museums and the Lure of the Sell-Off, with the PMA’s director and CEO Timothy Rub Editorial Staff
The Association of Art Museum Directors killed something of a sacred cow last year when it ruled that museums will be permitted to use funds from deaccessioned artworks previously strictly controlled to pay for a wider array of institutional costs. On the occasion of this year’s virtual Philadelphia Show art and antiques fair, Ben Miller speaks with the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s director and CEO Timothy Rub about the AAMD’s ruling and the ripple effects it might have throughout the museum world. In a wide-ranging conversation, which gets into the nitty gritty of collecting and deaccessioning habits and procedures, as well as fundraising niceties, Rub makes a strong case for continuing to keep the departments of museums and their fundraising efforts firmly separated.