CINCINNATI.- Following a successful 2003-4 season, in which attendance increased 30 percent over the previous year, the Cincinnati Art Museum announces its new season of special exhibitions for 2004-5 , headlined by the international exhibition Petra: Lost City of Stone.
Along with Petra: Lost City of Stone, the Museum will feature a diverse range of exhibitions drawn from the Museums exemplary permanent collection as well as other collections from around the world. These exhibitions range from masterpieces of American painting by Georgia OKeeffe, Winslow Homer and Norman Rockwell to oil sketches by Baroque master Peter Paul Rubens to a collection of Japanese work garments painted with animals and mythological figures. The full schedule of special exhibitions is below. Visitors can also experience these exhibitions through many opportunities for interactive and social programming throughout the year.
Discover the most comprehensive exhibition ever presented on the ancient city of Petra, and its creators, the Nabataeans. This landmark exhibition offers North American audiences the opportunity to learn about art and life in the ancient metropolis of Petra, whose thousands of tombs were literally carved from the red sandstone in the harsh desert cliffs of southern Jordan.
This exhibition is organized by the Cincinnati Art Museum and the American Museum of Natural History, New York, under the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Air transportation generously provided by Royal Jordanian.
