Collection & Exhibition Highlights

The Taft Museum of Art’s fall exhibition Posing Beauty in African American Culture explores the ways African and African American beauty has been represented in photography since the early 1900s. Here are five of our curator’s picks, ranging from 1930s photojournalism to contemporary artists’ examinations of beauty as it relates to race, class, gender, and politics within art and popular culture.

The Taft Museum of Art’s summer exhibition, Moment in Time, celebrates the camera’s ability to capture a moment in time with more than 100 images ranging from the early years of the medium in the 1840s to the popularization of color photography in the 1960s. Here are five of our curators’ favorites!

Discover these works in our bicentennial exhibition and their More to the Story texts, which offer a more diverse understanding of history. 

Discover these works and more in the upcoming bicentennial exhibition In a New Light.

Explore a selection of the Taft Museum of Art's highlights from our eleven inspiring rooms.

The Fall 2020 Highlights

The Summer 2020 Highlights

Two paintings by Thomas Gainsborough hang opposite each other in the Taft Museum of Art’s Music Room. On the south wall, two boys dressed in finery look out from a canvas measuring nearly seven feet high. On the north wall, a more modestly sized painting features livestock and rustic peasants dramatically lit within a shadowy copse of trees. This pastoral scene embodies Gainsborough’s true passion: the landscape of England’s countryside.