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Five Events you Won't Want to Miss in Gainesville This Week

UF’s Summer A may never kick the stigma that, at this time, the greater Gainesville area is a desolate and dull college town controlled by a tediously slow clock, one that will restore sunshine and social lives to the city only when Summer B arrives. Little do the town’s residents know that, thanks in part to UF, Gainesville is a hub for culture and entertainment. The following are five events happening this week guaranteed to provide maximum distraction from the not-so-monotonous countdown to Summer B.

Harn hosts Wikipedia-editing marathon in name of feminism

With laptops in hand, people gathered in the Harn Museum of Art on Sunday to increase representation of female artists on Wikipedia.

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Artist “Frida Kahlo” talks to more than 600 audience members in Carleton Auditorium about the founding of Guerrilla Girls and women in the art world. The Guerrilla Girls exhibit is currently being shown at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.

Wearing gorilla mask, artist talks feminism on campus

An anonymous artist in a gorilla mask drew a crowd of about 600 people to a UF auditorium on Tuesday.

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Artist “Frida Kahlo” talks to more than 600 audience members in Carleton Auditorium about the founding of Guerrilla Girls and women in the art world. The Guerrilla Girls exhibit is currently being shown at the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art.

Activist art group Guerrilla Girls to speak at Harn museum

Feminist activist artists called the Guerrilla Girls combat and expose inequality in politics, art and pop culture through their artwork — all while wearing gorilla masks. Tonight, the Guerrilla Girls will bring their performance to the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art where a member of the group, who goes by the name Frida Kahlo, will give a lecture.

UF’s Harn Museum awarded $282,000 grant for Asian art

UF’s Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art received a $282,000 grant to help the museum continue publishing Asian art manuscripts.

UF education students petition Rubio to oppose DeVos

Before the U.S. Senate votes on Betsy DeVos for secretary of education, UF College of Education students and alumni are letting Sen. Marco Rubio, R-F.L., know their distaste for the nominee.

Senators discuss art programs

Student senators asked how they can help promote UF’s art museum, natural history museum and performing arts center Tuesday.

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The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art paid $75,000 to Subhash Kapoor, an art dealer currently on trial for an international art smuggling racket, for The Stele of Vishnu Trivikrama in 1999. Homeland Security Investigations took the statue from the Harn last week to return it back to its origin in India after evidence of it being stolen.

Updated: Harn Museum turns over sculpture bought from alleged smuggler

A $75,000 sculpture purchased by the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art was taken by Homeland Security Investigations officials last week.

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The Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art paid $75,000 to Subhash Kapoor, an art dealer currently on trial for an international art smuggling racket, for The Stele of Vishnu Trivikrama in 1999. Homeland Security Investigations took the statue from the Harn last week to return it back to its origin in India after evidence of it being stolen.

With science-inspired jewelry, a UF student’s business grows

When Erin Winick was younger, she used to sit at her sewing machine and create her own Halloween costumes.

First Cultural Plaza Festival to offer dance performance

A New York dance company will be performing on a raft on a pond Saturday.

Harn Museum exhibition shows impact of war through art

When you walk into the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, blank gazes of soldiers stare back.

During memorial, UF student remembered for curiosity, care for life

Josh Hildebrandt once pulled over on the side of the road to check on a swallowtail butterfly.

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Harn Museum opens international art exhibit

Loss, refugees, veterans and current real-world tragedies are on display at a new Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art exhibit.