I read somewhere that collections are what museums are; exhibitions, what they do. This makes perfect sense, of course. Except for the comparatively rare kunsthalle (a German word roughly translated to “art gallery” but used in English to mean non-collecting…
The exhibition Fake News? Some Artistic Responses covers a selection of American artists’ reaction to the world of mass media from the early 20th century to the present day. A phrase all too familiar in our everyday lives and coined…
Art historian Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu first connected with the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in 2011 after inquiring into the painting Portrait of Thomas Edison, the Thinker by Mihri Rasim. The painting was gifted to Hamilton Holt and Rollins College in…
Dr. Ena Heller, Bruce A. Beal Director at Cornell Fine Arts Museum, sits down with Tom Jelneck from On Target Digital Marketing for a podcast about overcoming obstacles and achieving great things. Tune in to hear her remarkable story about…
On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the State of the Union Address to Congress amid a highly charged international political climate. Commonly known as the Four Freedoms speech, the address became a statement to the core values…
One of the paintings in our current exhibition, Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art , depicts an episode from the story of Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, as recounted in the biblical book of Genesis.…
One of the rarest paintings in the Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s collection is Lavinia Fontana’s Dead Christ with Symbols of the Passion. Dated 1581, It is one of only 32 signed and dated (or datable) works by the artist. Lavinia…
How do paintings from an art-filled, Ohio home become the core of the only European Old Masters museum collection in the Orlando area? The story began in 1870. Family patriarch, Francis Eunoch Myers, arrived in Ashland, OH to work as…
Communities are defined by people: families, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who share a way of life, a place to live, to work, or to enjoy common interests. We live in a community and share our lives, thoughts, and hopes with…
