In art history, as in most academic disciplines, we divide ourselves into a dizzying array of subfields, from experts in […]
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Research Highlights, Part 5: Etchings of Modern Life in the CFAM Collection
One of the particular strengths of the CFAM collection I have been delighted to discover is in the medium of […]
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Research Highlights, Part 4: Tibor Pataky, Florida Artist
For me, one of the great pleasures of museum work is getting to know an individual collection. At institutions like […]
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Change is Coming
“Change is coming, whether you like it or not.” – Greta Thunberg What change is coming? Climate change and the […]
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Research Highlights, Part 3: National Visions, Personal Visions: American Landscape Painting
I would like to begin this week’s post on a bit of a personal note. I live in Southwest Virginia, […]
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Research Highlights, Part 2: Artistic Friendship in the Adirondacks
Part 2: A Case of Artistic Friendship: A.F. Tait and J.M. Hart So often we consider artists and their work […]
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Research Highlights, New Insights into the American Art Collection, Part 1: Connoisseurship, or When is a Stuart not a Stuart?
Forward written by: Ena Heller, Bruce A. Beal Director, CFAM We are happy to introduce new insights into the museum’s American […]
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THE POWER OF ART IN A WORLD OF COVID-19
In January 2020, we included Aquarium, a 3D video animation work by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos, in our museum’s collection […]
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Conservation Connections: Mushrooms Plug Tray 100 by Artist Brian Burkhardt
Recently, there has been an explosion of scholarship into the conservation of contemporary works of art. Historically a field limited […]
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Art Encounters, Episode 2: “African Apparel: Threaded Transformations across the 20th Century”
In the second episode of our podcast, “Art Encounters,” Guest Curators Dr. Mackenzie Moon Ryan, associate professor of Art History […]
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The Major Scale: African American Art in the 20th Century
A special three-part presentation of The Major Scale with Rollins Museum of Art’s exhibit, African American Art in the 20th […]
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Art Encounters, Episode 1: Walt Whitman’s Bicentennial
How does one start working at a museum? What is a teaching museum anyway? Aren’t all museums in the practice […]
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Decolonizing the Museum: Facing Enduring Perceptions of Native Lives
In recent years, museum professionals have been focusing on how to decolonize museum practice. Colonialism is deeply embedded in museums […]
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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 […]
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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 […]