In recent years, museum professionals have been focusing on how to decolonize museum practice. Colonialism is deeply embedded in museums […]
Why Does Walt Whitman Endure?
This post is from October 2019. Cornell Fine Art Museum is now Rollins Museum of Art. The following is an […]
Collection Connections: The Work of Romare Bearden
Three times a year, Rollins Museum of Art (formerly Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM)) hosts special seasonal exhibitions from both […]
Art Analysis: AP Art History Curriculum & Rollins Museum of Art
As the area’s only teaching museum, the Rollins Museum of Art (formerly Cornell Fine Arts Museum) hosts a range of […]
Summer in the Hamptons: Bridgehampton by Arne Besser
For decades, the Hamptons have been a prime spot for summer fun and a location from which artists draw endless […]
Unique Partner in Classroom Pedagogy
The museum is an ever-evolving resource with boundless opportunities in art learning! With a collection of around 5,600 objects ranging […]
The Different Lives Of Women
This post was written in 2019 and has been edited to update pertinent information. Rina Banerjee’s Her captivity was once […]
A Museum’s Raison D’Etre: Art Encounters Catalog at Rollins Museum of Art
I read somewhere that collections are what museums are; exhibitions, what they do. This makes perfect sense, of course. Except […]
Fake News? Some Artistic Responses
The exhibition Fake News? Some Artistic Responses covers a selection of American artists’ reaction to the world of mass media […]
Fuel Up with Dr. Ena Heller
Dr. Ena Heller, Bruce A. Beal Director at Cornell Fine Arts Museum, sits down with Tom Jelneck from On Target […]
Seductress or Rape Victim? Potiphar’s Wife in Art And Literature
One of the paintings in our current exhibition, Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art […]
Dangerous Women: Renaissance Painters at Rollins Museum of Art
One of the rarest paintings in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s collection is Lavinia Fontana’s Dead Christ with Symbols of […]
A Closer Look At Our Summer Exhibitions: From Pump Manufacturing To Old Masters Paintings
How do paintings from an art-filled, Ohio home become the core of the only European Old Masters museum collection in […]
The Community of Art
Communities are defined by people: families, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who share a way of life, a place to live, […]
