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When an old Western Union office building in downtown Jacksonville was renovated into a six-floor art museum in the early part of the 21st century, no one knew quite what to do with the walls of the central staircase, which rise 40 feet above the lobby. Enter Marcelle Polednik. Polednik, now director of the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin, was hired as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville in early 2006 and immediately started thinking about what she could do with those big ...

Letters from readers: Zanele Muholi exhibit at the Cummer Letters from readers Zanele Muholi exhibit at the Cummer The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens recently debuted Zanele Muholi: Somnyama Ngonyama: Hail the Dark Lioness, an internationally touring exhibition organized by Autograph, London and curated by Renée Mussai. The exhibition features more than 80 self-portraits by Muholi: a world-renowned photographer and visual activist whose work addresses race, identity, representation, human righ...

Nobody takes better selfies than Zanele Muholi. In the portraits, the South African artist poses with a wide variety of common household objects — a three-legged stool, sponges, an extension cord, a vacuum cleaner, clothespins, mirrors, inflated latex gloves, bicycle tires, safety pins and plastic bags. The portraits are all in black-and-white, with the contrast pushed to emphasize the artists dark skin. "The black becomes blacker, the white becomes whiter," said Holly Keris, the Riverside ...

Cummer Museum debuts new race and representation photography exhibition Emily Boyer, Morning assignment manager, Traffic reporter Published:  Updated:  Tags:  The photography exhibition Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail The Dark Lioness opens Thursday, April 15 at the Cummer Museum. Visual activist Zanele Muholi uses their body as a canvas to confront the deeply personal politics of race and representation. The collection of black and white photos poses a question about social injustice, human rights,...

I say this because Alison is losing her eyesight. I’ll come back to that. But on the way to meet her, it hit me that it has been two years since a few dozen people joined me when I walked into the ocean near the pier, finishing a series that involved crossing Jacksonville by foot. Some days it feels like those two years have been more like 20. I’m guessing you know the feeling. I miss doing those weekly walks. Not just the part involving putting one foot in front of the other. The part that...

Women at The Cummer Museum help put Jacksonville on the map with nationally-recognized exhibit Its Womens History Month. The women who run The Cummer Museum are making history with a new exhibit in April getting national attention. Author: Leah Shields Updated: 7:00 AM EDT March 17, 2021 JACKSONVILLE, Fla — New leadership and a new year for The Cummer Museum. Leadership staff is making some waves, even being featured in an article by Forbes Magazine recently. M...

“Sitting around doing nothing, spring comes and the grass grows by itself.”— Zen proverb   Spring is nearly upon us, and things are getting frisky in the yard. One morning my spouse the Binmeister came in from retrieving the Times-Union from the driveway and announced “the birds are making a racket, and I can hear things growing.” He was elated.  March is National Umbrella Month, so named because it brings gusty winds, rain and cold nights. Flocks of robins fly in — they were earl...

Email is invalid Martin Johnson Heade, Amethyst Woodstar, ca. 1863 – 1864, Oil on canvas. 12 1/4 x 10 in. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2006.84. Photography by Dwight Primiano Thomas Cole (1801-1848) Thomas Cole’s Box of Minerals and Artifacts, c. 1830-1848
. Various minerals, artifacts, and specimens. 18 x 20 x 3 in. Thomas Cole National Historic Site; Gift of Edith Cole Silberstein and the Greene County Historical Society, TC.64.11.2 The...

Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment opens at Reynolda Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), View on the Magdalena River,1857. Oil on canvas, 35 x 47 in. (framed). Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. J. Harwood and Louise B. Cochrane Fund for American Art; Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund, Arthur and Margaret Glasgow Fund, and Estate of Hildegarde Graham van Roijen, by exchange. Photo: Travis Fullerton © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. WINSTON-SALEM, NC .- ...

Cummer Museum celebrates Black History Month Published:  Tags:  Erin Kendricks work, Simone 2019, among the items on display this month at the Cummer Museum and Gardens. (Photo provided to WJXT) JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens has several works by Black artists in its permanent collection and has added a special theme this month: “The Black Family: Representation, Identity and Diversity.” Throughout February, the museum is celebrating the contributions and crea...