Forward written by: Ena Heller, Bruce A. Beal Director, CFAM We are happy to introduce new insights into the museum’s American Art Collection. In our latest blog series, American Art Research Fellow Grant Hamming will share the results of his ongoing…
In January 2020, we included Aquarium, a 3D video animation work by Cuban artist Sandra Ramos, in our museum’s collection installation, The Place as Metaphor: Collection Conversations. The narrative crafted by Ramos responded to the theme on multiple levels: it…
Recently, there has been an explosion of scholarship into the conservation of contemporary works of art. Historically a field limited to traditional art forms, with conservators painstakingly dissolving individual layers of varnish or carefully inpainting a damaged square centimeter of…
In the second episode of our podcast, “Art Encounters,” Guest Curators Dr. Mackenzie Moon Ryan, associate professor of Art History at Rollins College, and two of her students Morgan Snoap ’20 and Cristina Toppin ’21, share insights on the new…
A special three-part presentation of The Major Scale with Rollins Museum of Art’s exhibit, African American Art in the 20th Century, on loan from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. With a bounty of bold and brilliant masterworks from the likes…
How does one start working at a museum? What is a teaching museum anyway? Aren’t all museums in the practice or in the business of teaching? The Cornell Fine Arts Museum’s Director, Ena Heller; Curator, Gisela Carbonell; and Education Coordinator…
In recent years, museum professionals have been focusing on how to decolonize museum practice. Colonialism is deeply embedded in museums through the way collections are formed and how museums categorize, exhibit, and disseminate the history of their collections. Decolonizing, though…
The following is an excerpt from Dr. Deborah Prosser’s essay included in the booklet that accompanies the Ut Pictura Poesis: Walt Whitman and the Poetry of Art exhibition on view at the Cornell Fine Art Museum from September 20 through…
Three times a year, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum (CFAM) hosts special seasonal exhibitions from both national and international lenders that connect to the museum’s mission and collection. This fall, the museum features the exhibition African-American Art in the 20th…
As the area’s only teaching museum, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum hosts a range of educational programs and visits for K–12 students throughout the year. Of those visits, the museum welcomes AP Art History high school students to test their…
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 so much meaning, and yet it looks so simple that it is easy to understate its historical significance. The two-sided drawing Por la Paz (For Peace) created in 1952…
For decades, the Hamptons have been a prime spot for summer fun and a location from which artists draw endless inspiration. The New York-based artist Arne Besser (1935-2012) first gained recognition in the art world for his Photorealist paintings of…
The museum is an ever-evolving resource with boundless opportunities in art learning! With a collection of around 5,600 objects ranging from antiquity to contemporary, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum offers intimate, personalized, and transformative encounters in art learning for disparate…
This post was written in 2019 and has been edited to update pertinent information. Rina Banerjee’s Her captivity was once someone’s treasure… combines historical objects (a Victorian birdcage, a 19th-century New England table) with elements both natural (gourds, feathers, shells,…
By MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Art History and Gisela Carbonell, Ph.D., Curator. Last fall, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum worked closely with Dr. MacKenzie Moon Ryan, Assistant Professor of Art History at Rollins, and her ARH 404…
