Drs. Bob and Eric Thoburn led a team of scientists to take X-ray and CT scan images of a 17th century Japanese bodhisattva and a rare Joseon dynasty Korean wooden sculpture.
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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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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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Maebyeong
Museums are full of objects that have had past lives. Lives that include ownership, display, exhibition history, and sometimes food! Working in the Asian wing and working with traditional religious art at the Harn Museum of Art, random thoughts about incarnations in everyday life often come to me. When I refer...