The Lens

New Tides highlights works concerned with the ebb and flow of social, political, and artistic trends and how these tropes and themes can return with differing focus and intensity. Continue reading New Tides

On a farm in Loveland, Ohio, Nancy Ford Cones (1869–1962) created photographs that earned her a national reputation during a time when female artists struggled for recognition. Despite the praise they received during her lifetime, Cones’s works have been largely forgotten. This exhibition resurrects the gifted artist’s career. Continue reading Craft and Camera: The Art of Nancy Ford Cones

Commissioned by the Cincinnati Art Museum with support from FotoFocus and a major grant from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, artists John Edmonds, David Hartt, and poet Jason Allen-Paisant explore relationships between embodied experience, history, ideas, and institutions in site-specific dialogues with museum collections and spaces. Continue reading Natural World

"Images on which to build, 1970-1990s" reveals how influential LGBT image cultures ignited processes of learning. The exhibition presents over a dozen artists and archivist collectives who documented and circulated work from alternative schools, demonstrations, dance clubs, slideshows, correspondences, and community-based archive projects of the late 20th century. Continue reading Images on which to build, 1970s–1990s

For their first solo exhibition in the Midwest, New York-based artist Baseera Khan brings together new and recent collages, photographic objects, and video, alongside a major sculptural commission that respond to the architecture of the museum and the artist’s identity. Continue reading Baseera Khan: Weight on History