Female Nude with a Staff, 1498 Albrecht Dürer Pen and dark brown ink on cream laid paper, 12 3/16 x 8 11/16 in. Crocker Art Museum, E. B. Crocker Collection.

Insights from William Breazeale: Curator at the Crocker Art Museum

• Post published:October 12, 2011

Today's post comes from Julie MacDonald, Class of 2012 and Art Center Student Docent.…

Edwin B. Crocker, c. 1872 by Stephen W. Shaw

A Pioneering Collection: Meet the Crockers

• Post published:October 11, 2011

Today's post comes from Simone Levine, Class of 2013 and Art Center Student Docent.…

William Baziotes (American, 1912-1963), Night Mirror, 1947, Oil on Canvas, Gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller, class of 1931.

Connections: A Curatorial Discussion

• Post published:August 2, 2011

Today’s post comes from Samantha Moyer, Art Center docent. The perspective of a museum…

Alfred Stieglitz (American, 1864-1946), Luncheon at Lake George, 1920, Gelatin sliver print, Gift of Edna Bryner Schwab, class of 1907

On View: A New Way of Seeing

• Post published:July 21, 2011

Today's post comes from Taylor Shoolery, class of 2012 and Art Center student docent.…

Louise Nevelson (American, b. Ukraine. 1900-1988), Dawn's Wedding Feast Columns, 1959, white paint on wood, gift of Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller.

On View: Assemblage Art

• Post published:July 20, 2011

Today's post comes from Samantha Moyer, Art Center student docent. Sculptures by the artist…

Connections: Kinetic Art

• Post published:July 16, 2011

Today's post comes from Taylor Shoolery, class of 2012 and Art Center student docent.…

Blanchette Ferry Hooker Rockefeller (1909-1992), class of 1931, from the A Taste for the Modern catalogue

Connections: Women of Vassar

• Post published:July 7, 2011

Today's post comes from Taylor Shoolery, class of 2012 and Art Center student docent.…

Diane Arbus (American 1923-1971), A Young Brooklyn Family Going for a Sunday Outing, N.Y.C., 1966, Gelatin silver print, Purchase, Louise Woodruff Johnston, class of 1922, Fund, 1974.21.7

Connections: On the Street

• Post published:June 21, 2011

Today's post comes from Nicole M. Roylance, Coordinator of Public Education and Information. This…

Nancy Graves, Leif, 1984, enameled bronze, gift of the artist

50 Years with Nancy Graves

• Post published:June 9, 2011

In 1970, only thirty years old, Nancy Graves had her work on the cover…

Connections: Questioning Art

• Post published:June 9, 2011

Today's post comes from Taylor Shoolery, class of 2012 and Art Center student docent.…

Thomas Rowlandson, The Prize Fight, 1787, Watercolor with pen, courtesy of The Yale Center for British Art

Happenings: Steve Brodner Visits The Art Center

• Post published:June 8, 2011

Today's post comes from Taylor Shoolery, class of 2012 and Art Center student docent.…

Jersey Shore; watchers and watchees

Connections: Satire Today

• Post published:May 31, 2011

Renowned political cartoonist, illustrator, and art journalist, Steve Brodner, has affected the minds of…