Harn Museum of Art

Harn Museum of Art Admission is free. The Harn Museum of Art at UF promotes the power of the arts to inspire and educate people and enrich their lives. Parking is free on weekends.
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More than 13,300 works are represented in collections of African, Asian, modern and contemporary art, and photography. Admission to the Harn Museum of Art is free. Parking is available for $4 per day, or $.25 per 15 minutes in a metered spot, up to 45 minutes.

"Grounding: A Mindful Yoga Practice" with Kim Holton is tomorrow, Saturday, August 29 from 10 - 11 am. Take a break from...
08/28/2026

"Grounding: A Mindful Yoga Practice" with Kim Holton is tomorrow, Saturday, August 29 from 10 - 11 am. Take a break from your regular schedule to slow down, experience stillness and re-charge. No registration or admission fee required.

We are saddened to hear Yayoi Kusama has passed away at age 97.Considered to have anticipated many aspects of Pop, Minim...
08/27/2026

We are saddened to hear Yayoi Kusama has passed away at age 97.

Considered to have anticipated many aspects of Pop, Minimalism and Post-Minimalism art movements, Kusama had an obsessive interest in proliferating patterns and repetitive shapes. An example is "Nets-Infinity (TWOS)," a part of the Harn's collection and among her works called "net paintings" which are large-scale and abstract with circular and repetitive patterns. This painting suggests dualities and cyclical rhythms in the dimensions of time and space.

image: Yayoi Kusama,"Nets-Infinity (TWOS)," 2004, Museum purchase, funds provided by the David A. Cofrin Art Acquisition Endowment and friends of the Harn Museum.

Wine down with us at Art After Dark tomorrow, August 27 and enjoy a performance by Sawgrass Slims at 6 pm. Light bites a...
08/26/2026

Wine down with us at Art After Dark tomorrow, August 27 and enjoy a performance by Sawgrass Slims at 6 pm. Light bites and desserts from Blue Gill will be offered, along with beer and wine. A perfect evening to see the new "Layered Lives" exhibition that opened on Tuesday.

Photograph by Onna Maya.

Happy Birthday, Hale Woofruff! Hale Woodruff, a Paris-trained African American artist, was a nationally known painter, d...
08/26/2026

Happy Birthday, Hale Woofruff!

Hale Woodruff, a Paris-trained African American artist, was a nationally known painter, draftsman and printmaker. This work is a study for his mural series, "Art of the Negro," commissioned for the Trevor Arnett Library at Clark-Atlanta University.

Happy Birthday Ruffino Tamayo!Rufino Tamayo was an accomplished Mexican printmaker. Between 1949 and 1950, he was active...
08/25/2026

Happy Birthday Ruffino Tamayo!

Rufino Tamayo was an accomplished Mexican printmaker. Between 1949 and 1950, he was active at two prestigious print workshops in Paris, Desjobert and the Guilde de la Gravure. Published in Paris in 1959, Tamayo's illustrated book, "Apocalypse de Saint Jean," included 15 color lithographs based on the Book of Revelation. In this last book of the Bible, John of Patmos, describes the end of the world. This lithograph describes the fourth and last horseman of the Apocalypse who represents Death and ultimately devours the world.

image: Rufino Tamayo, " Rider of the Apocalypse (from Apocalypse de St. Jean)," 1959, Museum Collection, University Gallery Purchase

The wait is finally over! "Layered Lives" exhibition is opening tomorrow, August 25. "Layered Lives" brings together thr...
08/24/2026

The wait is finally over! "Layered Lives" exhibition is opening tomorrow, August 25.

"Layered Lives" brings together three decades of photography, paintings, ceramics and prints illustrating the resilience, innovation and expansive creativity of Cuban women artists whose layered stories continue to shape our understanding of Cuba and its diaspora.

image: Alejandra Glez, "Oshun 0," 2023, Loan from the Discoveries in Art Certilman Family Collection

Spend some time in the "Ghanaian Fashion: Kabas and Couture: Then & Now" exhibition this weekend. Admission is free.
08/22/2026

Spend some time in the "Ghanaian Fashion: Kabas and Couture: Then & Now" exhibition this weekend. Admission is free.

Happy Poet's Day! Did you know that the Harn has an annual writing competition that takes place between January and Febr...
08/21/2026

Happy Poet's Day!
Did you know that the Harn has an annual writing competition that takes place between January and February for University of Florida and Santa Fe College students? Students are invited to engage museumgoers with their poetry or prose inspired by art at the museum! Here is this year's second place, "The Working South," by Michael Orlando. The complete volume of Words on Canvas can be found on the Harn website.

"The Working South"
By Michael Orlando

Sunken into the earth, lines of felled pines
writhe, their thin, black branches sharp
with the stark geometry of rigor mortis.
Only four survivors stand, their dark bodies
tall and stiff-backed. At each tree’s crown,
clusters of leaves flare out into a stretch
of orange, the late-day sky pulped with heat
like a slate of scabbed resin, spread low
over the land. Below, patches of bruised grass
push up through the soft mud, just barely,
their little blades dull beneath rolled logs
and the boot tread of two Black men at work
among the trees. The younger man lifts an axe
high overhead, its haft slung back, primed
to drive the square steel head down again.
At his hand, the forest has splintered, broken
into split logs. Beside him, an older man
cradles each one, sliding the wood onto a stack
grown shoulder-high. Both take on the labor
in loose patchworked clothes, all vibrant
swatches of burnt red, rust tones, pale blue
cotton stained with old dirt and fresh sweat.
And still a pine scent clings to the skin,
still the sharp bite of steel, the buzz of shock
shot through an axe, taking root in bundles
of muscle worn raw. A woodcutter’s work
hardly ends in the woods. There are still trees.

image: Robert Gwathmey, "The Woodcutter," c.1945, Museum purchase, funds provided by the Caroline Julier and James G. Richardson Art Acquisition Fund

The Harn offers extended gallery hours every Thursday. Take a break from the world today and join us for Art After Dark ...
08/20/2026

The Harn offers extended gallery hours every Thursday. Take a break from the world today and join us for Art After Dark | Evening Hours until 9 pm.

Admission is free!

It's World Photography Day! When did you last have uninterrupted time to look and think about your relationship to the w...
08/19/2026

It's World Photography Day!
When did you last have uninterrupted time to look and think about your relationship to the world? "One World" might be the place. Slow looking is encouraged. Inspired photographs such as these help us see the resilience of people, communities and the environment, and to recognize the needed work ahead.

Admission is free!

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3259 Hull Road
Gainesville, FL
32608

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Tuesday 10am - 5pm
Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 10am - 9pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 5pm
Sunday 1pm - 5pm

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