As the area’s only teaching museum, the Rollins Museum of Art (formerly Cornell Fine Arts Museum) hosts a range of […]
Exhibitions & Events at Rollins Museum of Art
Frida Kahlo: “Por la Paz”
A small work by Frida Kahlo (Mexico, July 6, 1907–July 13, 1954) in the exhibition Mexican Modernity: 20th Century Paintings from the Zapanta Collection encapsulates […]
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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 […]
Classroom Pedagogy, Education
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 […]
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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 […]
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Conversations/Collaborations: The Place as Metaphor Exhibition at Rollins Museum of Art
By MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History and Gisela Carbonell, Ph.D., Curator. Last fall, the Cornell Fine […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Thomas Edison: Viewed in a New Light
Art historian Özlem Gülin Dağoğlu first connected with the Cornell Fine Arts Museum in 2011 after inquiring into the painting […]
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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 […]
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For Freedoms
On January 6, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the State of the Union Address to Congress amid a highly […]
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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 Exhibition at Rollins 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 […]
Exhibitions & Events at Rollins Museum of Art
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 […]
Dr. Ena Heller
The Community of Art
Communities are defined by people: families, friends, neighbors, and colleagues who share a way of life, a place to live, […]