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The Harn Museum is fortunate; it recently purchased a photograph for an upcoming exhibition, Shadow to Substance, that currently does not exist as a fine art print in any museum or commercial gallery. It is an Edition of 1/1, and a story worth telling of how it came to the Harn....
During the month of May we celebrate the heritage of Asian Pacific American communities and their contributions to pluralistic American history, society, and culture. The Harn Museum of Art’s collection encompasses works of art by Asian American artists such as Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), ceramicist Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011), and...
The history behind April as designated National Poetry Month has all to do with the IRS and our collective April 15th tax deadlines. No, really! To commemorate National Poetry Month on past tax days, the Academy of American Poets distributed free copies of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land at selected post offices...
During the month of March, we honor women’s contributions to American history, culture and society. For the past decade, the Harn’s curators have made a concerted effort to increase the museum’s representation of women artists’ work. A recent major gift of Florida-themed art significantly boosted this initiative by adding oil...
The Harn is curating an exhibition that will open this July running through next January titled Shadow to Substance (more on this in a moment). Let me explain the enigmatic title. In the early history of photography, from 1839 to about 1870, the science of photography was sometimes referred to as “fixing...
In the North Gallery of the David A. Cofrin Asian Art Wing, the exhibition Tempus Fugit continues to change. A long meditation on time and its qualities, every six months the scene changes to move forward in chronological time. The 51-foot-long handscroll changes positions, the album leaves are turned, we conceptually shift...
Dragons have long been revered as auspicious creatures that ward off disasters and evil spirits. As symbols of the divine power, dragons were frequently used to decorate the thrones and robes of Asian emperors. Associated with water and agriculture, it is still common today to hang images of dragons during...
This semester, our Harn poet-in-residence Debora Greger and I are having a different kind of internship. Typically, we can be found in the galleries or in storage with undergraduate or graduate student interns, doing object studies on the Harn’s collections or writing new material for in-gallery use. To stay safe...
I have enjoyed and benefited from working with interns from the University of Florida and other institutions for over 17 years, and noted that they have become an increasingly vital part of the Harn. Adding their creative and innovative ideas as they perform a multitude of tasks that are essential to...
In my first Coffee with the Curators blog entry in June, I gave an account of my experience in February as an art courier for the Harn’s Champ d’avoine (Oat Field) landscape by Claude Monet. The purpose of this journey was to oversee the installation of the painting in the Claude Monet:...
