Talk:Cincinnati Art Museum

Some proposed changes
SECTION: Box on right side: Under curators -

Please remove: Brian Sholis, Photography (he is no longer with the Cincinnati Art Museum)

Please add: Ainsley M. Cameron, South Asian Art, Islamic Art, and Antiquities Peter Jonathan Bell, European Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings Nathaniel M. Stein, Photography (new curators who have joined CAM in last few months)

SECTION: Exhibitions Information listed is from 2011. New content that is more accurate and up-to-date:

The Cincinnati Art Museum hosts a variety of national and international traveling exhibitions each year. In addition, museum curators organize special exhibitions based on its permanent collection. In 2016, the museum presented Van Gogh: Into the Undergrowth, focused on Vincent van Gogh’s, Undergrowth with Two Figures, an example of the artist’s work in the permanent collection, along with 20 artworks on loan from museum and private collections around the world. The exhibition also featured the Cincinnati Art Museum’s own important collection of related French paintings and works on paper. This exhibition realized the second highest average daily attendance for a ticketed exhibition since 2000. In early 2017, the museum exhibited Dressed to Kill: Japanese Arms & Armor, which focused on Japanese samurai culture and arts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries, including 11 samurai suits and 130 warrior-related objects from the collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum and a Cincinnati-area collector.

Current and upcoming exhibitions include Tiffany Glass: Painting with Color and Light, A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America, William Kentridge: More Sweetly Play the Dance, Anila Quayyum Agha: All the Flowers are for Me, Ana England: Kinship, Iris van Herpen: Transforming Fashion, Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China.

SECTION: Funding Information listed is from 2011 and no longer accurate. Perhaps delete or refer to current funding.

COI Disclosure: I am director of marketing and communications for the Cincinnati Art Museum. I'm a newbie and trying to follow Wikipedia policies! Please let me know if there are any issues with my requests. Hoping to help update the page! Please let me know if I can provide any assistance. 66.117.250.76 (talk) 19:15, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
 * Hello, and thanks for making your edit request. I have updated the curators and the funding. However, I really think the exhibition section could have better focus. If your special exhibitions change every few months, I wouldn't depend upon Wikipedia editors to update this page every time. I think it would be better for this section to present a summary of exhibitions that the Museum has hosted. For example, as a reader I would like to know when the Museum resumed organizing special exhibitions after the 2011 hiatus. Describe your most impactful special exhibitions instead. That way, this section will be a summary rather than a mere list, and it will remain relevant years after the special exhibitions have changed yet again. Altamel (talk) 19:14, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

Untitled
Current article doesn't even address the Mapplethorpe controversy, which is the most historically relevant aspect of the institution to the greater world. Also, cleanup of the press-release second half would be great. 116.232.63.173 (talk) 15:06, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Mapplethrope controversy was at the Contemporary Arts Center, not the CAM. Daigneea (talk) 16:03, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

Full disclosure: I work for the CAM. Tried to clean up some of the "pr-speak" and add in citations. Is there anything else I can help with? Does the community feel there is some additional information that should be added - maybe something about the collections? Daigneea (talk) 21:40, 3 March 2009 (UTC)

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Controversy?
What *is* the controversy? That someone was given permission to fire a rifle isn't a controversy, it's simply ... a fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:642:C103:6590:0:0:0:1 (talk) 01:54, 10 April 2018 (UTC)

Improving this Article's Quality Rating
Hi friends!

I'm a Cincinnati Art Museum employee who has been asked to assist with updating this page. I wanted to introduce myself, disclose my affiliation with the museum, and join the conversation. I'd love to contribute to improving this article's quality rating!

I implemented two minor edits today. The first was defining the full name of the REC in the Admission and hours of operation section portion in the Management section. REC is an acronym that stands for "Rosenthal Education Center," as supported by this source:. Previously, that was not clear.

My other edit was expanding the scope of the Exhibitions section, based on feedback from Altamel back in 2017. I explained the museum's current approach to special exhibitions, and included several notable, sourced examples. I also attempted to transition in the previous content about 2010's change in strategy. This section could still use some work, so I invite further edits & feedback!

Looking forward to collaborating,

--EMI from CAM (talk) 18:34, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Hi there, and thanks for contributing. I'd be glad to help discuss any major changes you might propose, questions you might have, or anything else. ɱ  (talk) 01:55, 29 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi Ɱ, thanks for your response! Looking forward to chatting about improvements. I've got two proposals and a request, for starters.


 * My proposals are striking the Exhibitions and Management sections of the article until they can be rewritten. Both are quite dated, and do not reflect the museum today. The Funding section under Management is particularly egregious—2008, 2011, and 2014 sources provide an extremely limited perspective on the subject. The museum has been around for well over a century. The dates referenced feel almost arbitrary in that context.


 * I'd be happy to work with you or any other interested editors on improving both sections. I propose they be removed until improvements are complete.


 * And finally, my request. Could you advise me on improving this article's quality rating? I need to spent more time familiarizing myself with WikiProject Museums' quality scale, but imagine an editor with your experience may have some obvious suggestions I could assist with. How would you recommend I begin the process of assisting with quality improvements to this article?


 * Thanks so much, EMI Loves Art (talk) 17:38, 10 November 2021 (UTC)