The Contemporary Arts Center
The Contemporary Arts Center provides the opportunity for all people to discover the dynamic relationship between art and life by exhibiting, but not collecting, the work of progressive artists. It will continually increase its regional, national and international influence by providing changing visual and interactive experiences that challenge, entertain and educate.
With the encouragement of Edward M. M. Warburg and Alfred H. Barr of New York's Museum of Modern Art, local art appreciators Peggy Frank, Betty Pollack and Rita Rentschler form the "Cincinnati Modern Art Society."
The new organization presents its inaugural exhibition, Modern Paintings from Cincinnati Collections, in the basement of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
The Society establishes a Lending Gallery of Local Art, one of the first of its kind in the United States. The Society exhibits Pablo Picasso's Guernica (1937) as part of Picasso-Forty Years of His Art.
The Society presents exhibitions of the art of Marsden Hartley, Stuart Davis, Paul Klee, Alexander Calder, Henri Rousseau, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Rufino Tamayo and Theo van Doesburg.
The Society presents the first American retrospective of Juan Gris.
Architects Carl Strauss and Ray Roush and a young architect in their office, Michael Graves, remodel a large part of the lower floor of the Cincinnati Art Museum to serve as permanent exhibition galleries for the society.
The Society's membership subsequently votes to change the organization's name to the Contemporary Arts Center.
The Center presents one of the first museum exhibitions of Pop art, An American Viewpoint 1963, featuring work by Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann.
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