The Cornell Fine Arts Museum on the campus of Rollins College has a not-to-be-missed exhibition currently on view through September 8th. Mexican Modernity: 20th-Century Paintings from the Zapanta Collection is required viewing for anyone who wants to flesh out their study of Mexican art. Personally, I feel as though Art History as a practice oversimplifies […]
Read more "Mexican Modernity"I am pleased to share my most recent article for ArtScene Press! The Cornell Fine Arts Museum on the campus of Rollins College has a number of art exhibits concurrently on view in different galleries throughout the museum. I chose to focus on a small, but powerful exhibition – Body Snatchers: Death in Culture – […]
Read more "Body Snatchers"I attended a FREE lecture given by Dr. Mary Garrard at Rollins College last night and I am still reeling! The lecture, titled “Early Modern Feminism and the Dangerous Artemisia Gentileschi,” covered everything from Caravaggio to Kavanaugh, the Baroque period to the #MeToo movement, and so much more. One of the things that struck a […]
Read more "Dr. Mary D. Garrard"I invite you to check out my most recent article for ArtScene Press discussing the “Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art” exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. The following is a brief excerpt… “With an emphasis on biblical stories, the exhibition includes a variety of artistic interpretations of […]
Read more "“Dangerous Women” at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum"The story of the Magdalene is a wild, weird and complex one that is more mythic legend than factual event. For starters, throughout art history she is depicted as a sort of amalgam of a few different women mentioned in the Bible’s four gospels of the New Testament. Second, her story takes an extreme turn […]
Read more "Mary Magdalene"I recently visited the new exhibition, “Dangerous Women,” at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum. I highly recommend this show to anyone who has a penchant for the Baroque period or who wants to explore art theory regarding the role of women in art. The show consists of 23 paintings culled from the collection of the […]
Read more "“Dangerous Women” Opens at CFAM"Join me for an art meet up at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum that is FREE for members of the Winter Garden Art Association and $10 for nonmembers. I will lead our group through a unique and atypical tour of their new exhibition, “Dangerous Women: Selections from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art.” […]
Read more "Dangerous Women"On your next visit to the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, be sure to check out the exhibition, “My Myopia,” by artist Trong Gia Nguyen. With Nguyen’s work hanging from the ceiling, the curators at CFAM transform a plain and empty room into a mesmerizing art installation. Guests are free to move about each piece offering […]
Read more "My Myopia"What a delight it was to explore the Cornell Fine Arts Museum last week with a group of members from the Winter Garden Art Association! In the hopes of offering more art-based outings for WGAA members, we decided to experiment with art meet ups. This was our first attempt and it went splendidly! We met at CFAM on […]
Read more "Cornell Fine Arts Museum"Over the weekend, I visited the recently opened “Towards Impressionism: Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet” exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum on the campus of Rollins College. It is an excellent opportunity to experience some really wonderful pieces by “big name” artists like Renoir, Pissarro and Monet (this post’s featured image). It also […]
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The Wandering Art Historian 