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May the Arts Bring You Happiness and Prosperity in 2022!
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...
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Pioneering Women Printmakers: Helen Hyde and Lilian May Miller in Japan
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...
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Gift Planning and Year End Giving Strategies
For many, the month of December is a common time of year to make a charitable gift, but there are ways to maximize your tax benefit while supporting the causes and organizations important to you all throughout the year. In this 15-minute webinar, Rachel Dorman from UF’s Office of Gift...
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Unconventional Collaborations
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...
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Those Butterflies in the Asian Wing
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...
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Afghanistan Revisited
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...
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In Praise of Shadows: Mindfulness in the Contemporary Pavilion
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...
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Picturing Miami: The Florida Art Collection
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...
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A Work of Heart
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....