The Blog Where Art Lives

The Taft Museum of Art blog, Frame|Work, offers unique perspectives on the stories and people behind the Taft, its historic house, and the art and artifacts that leave us captivated. Immerse yourself in the Taft's history as we explore the past and preserve the treasures in our collection for centuries to come.

Collection & Exhibition Highlights

Discover new details and make new connections with the featured works of art by taking a closer look at highlights from our permanent collection and special exhibitions. 

The Inside Story

Explore a range of topics related to the museum’s permanent collection, temporary exhibitions, and the history of the Taft historic house. 

Museum Musings

Written by the museum's dedicated team, discover some of their favorite works in our collection, their passion projects, and their current research initiatives.

Bicentennial Infrastructure Project

Discover the latest updates on the Taft Museum of Art’s Bicentennial Infrastructure Project needed to maintain the Taft historic house for the next century and the stories we are discovering along the way.

Art Conservation

When an art object is going to be photographed for publication, it needs to look its best. One of the Taft’s treasures, the splendid but badly tarnished 17th-century Two-Handled Covered Cup, was brought to the Museum’s conservation lab to be cleaned and stabilized prior to photography (The Taft has a lab on site for the use of different contract conservators, each of whom specializes in certain kinds of art objects.)

16 Sep 2019

• The Inside Story