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All Harn-goers know of El Anatsui’s Old Man’s Cloth, the glittering metal relief sculpture that has hung in our Pavilion and other galleries almost constantly since it was acquired in 2006. The Harn Museum of Art was the first host of GAWU, the exhibition of this body of metal works by Anatsui,...
[This essay on Henry Clay Anderson’s photography is short for the sake of this post. Yet it points to the power of photographs to help us see history and make connections. It waits further post-COVID-19 research.] Henry Clay Anderson lived and worked in Greenville, Mississippi, as the town’s most...
I’ve been listening to a BBC podcast titled Great Lives, where a famous living person nominates an oftentimes lesser-known deceased person. The celebrity, and an ‘expert’ (usually a biographer of the dead nominee), discuss the career of the chosen ‘Great Life.’ The program makes me feel hopeful that such people once...
As many of us have already packed up our holiday decorations, hundreds of millions of people in Asia are just getting into the festive mood for the upcoming Lunar New Year, the most important holiday in China, South Korea, Vietnam, and other countries with significant overseas Chinese populations such as...
This blog entry addresses one small facet of the rich interplay between the arts of Japan and the United States in the early 20th century. During this period, many American artists developed an interest in Japonisme—a French term coined by art critic Philippe Burty to describe the fascination with Japanese art...
It isn’t unusual for artists to build upon content of the past, whether they are imitating it, criticizing it, or tearing it down. (I can’t help but think of how Robert Rauschenberg purchased a drawing by Willem de Kooning and then erased it! It was titled Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953.) As...
If you’ve enjoyed watching butterflies flitting around you as you strolled amongst the tropical plants and flowers at the Florida Museum of Natural History, you won’t want to miss another opportunity to spend some time appreciating the butterflies at the neighboring Harn Museum of Art. In the current and forthcoming...
In 2016, I curated a Harn photography exhibition titled Aftermath: The Fallout of War supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. Aftermath featured several international female photographers in an effort to balance a history of war documented largely by men. The 21st century has spawned...
It is time to take a breath. It is time to take a moment to tame our minds and deeply see what is in front of us and within us. After these months of anxiety, there is no better time than right now to use mindfulness as a tool towards...
In the March Coffee with the Curators blog, I wrote about Laura Woodward (American, 1834–1926), one of the artists represented in a major gift from Sam and Robbie Vickers including about 1,200 works of Florida-themed art. The collection features a wide variety of artists and themes, creating a sort of visual history...
