George Eastman Museum

This #FanFriday goes to @around.town.brown! The museum is full of Instagram worthy photoshoot spots like this, come check it out! And we love this George Eastman quote #repost @around.town.brown ... What we do during our working hours determines what we have; what we do in our leisure hours determines what we are. #GeorgeEastman #GeorgeEastmanMuseum #EastmanKodak

Check out Sam Cannon's new project Thinking About Getting Into 3D - a virtual performance! The artist will be discussing this project and the evolution of how they've created work on, for, and about virtual spaces in their upcoming Future / Present talk on April 22. Sam Cannon (American, b. 1991), Untitled, 2020. Courtesy the artist. Sam Cannon

One of just 20 finalists selected for the 2021 Aperture Portfolio Prize, Jon Henry will be giving an online talk about his most recent project, STRANGER FRUIT, today at 6 p.m. as the latest artist featured in our Future/Present series. Jon Henry (American), Untitled #42, Central Los Angeles, CA, 2019. Courtesy the artist. Jon Henry

On this date in 1929, THE SCAR OF SHAME -- one of the few surviving silent "race films" -- had its premiere at Harlem's M&S Douglas Theatre. Race films were independently produced films for and about black people, and most have been lost. The Finger Lakes Film Trail is freely streaming five of these overlooked but hugely important films, with THE SCAR OF SHAME introduced by the Eastman Museum's Head of Library and Archives, Ken Fox. View THE SCAR OF SHAME along with four other race films at https://www.fingerlakesfilmtrail.org/about-the-scar-of-shame

This is your last weekend to see our Sweet Creations Gingerbread Display in person! Not able to make it? You will still be able to view the mansion, complete with these gingerbread creations, virtually in our 360 holiday tour at eastman.org/holidays.

Congratulations to Quajay Donnell, winner of the Eastman Museum award at RoCo’s 30th Annual Members Exhibition, selected by Department of Photography staff member Lilyan Jones. See his work on view through January 9.

With the generous support and unyielding commitment of our community, we have and will continue to adapt, enhance, and innovate in all of the ways you connect with the Eastman Museum. Thanks to all who engage with the Eastman Museum, both onsite and online, and are able to make a year-end gift in support of our work at this time. Support us now at eastman.org/donate.

Looking to change up your lunch routine? Treat yourself to take out at the new Eastman Museum Café! Open this week for takeout only Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Did you know that Alfred Hitchcock made movie-going a more terrifying experience for the film Psycho by releasing ambiguous trailers, requiring guests couldn't enter the theater after the film started, and playing the soundtrack in the lobby while guests were waiting (interrupting it every now and again with the sounds of a woman screaming)? Learn more about scary movie history on our blog; intern Eleanore Barrera shares the harrowing history of horror movies.

How big was George Eastman's estate? The short answer is 10, but it's a little more complicated than that. Kathy Connor, curator of George Eastman's Legacy, shares how the estate changed over his lifetime and what has happened to it since on our blog.

Only two weekends left to see our magical gingerbread Sweet Creations!

Looking for some vintage horror and silent scary films to get you in the mood for Halloween? Check out The Dryden Theatre for recommendations, such as James Whale's FRANKENSTEIN (1931), starring Boris Karloff. (Did you know Karloff was so good at keeping his real identity anonymous, that he wasn't invited to the film's premiere?!)

"Nimbus Atlas is a series of slow-motion videos depicting self-made clouds emerging and decomposing in a void. I was curious to find how my clouds evolve, change shape and reflect light. I captured the work with a high-speed camera." --Bernaudt Smilde, see this work on view now at the Eastman Museum. In the second photograph, you can see a behind the scenes look on the set of Nimbus Atlas at Schramstudios in Amsterdam, where Smilde is working together with cameraman Danny Noordanus (photo: Annegret Kellner).

Join us this Thursday at 6 p.m. for a virtual artist's talk with renowned artist Kota Ezawa, who will dive deep into his series The History of Photography Remix and National Anthem in conversation with Bruce Barnes, Ron and Donna Fielding Director of the museum. Register now for this free online talk at Deborah Ronnen Fine Arts’s exhibition Kota Ezawa: Taking a Knee is on display September 26November 7 at R1 Studios, 1328b University Avenue. Memorial Art Gallery of the Univ...ersity of Rochester is currently presenting John and Yoko (2005), a lightbox from The History of Photography Remix. This talk has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this talk, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Not able to come to our onsite musicales in George Eastman's historic mansion? Society for Chamber Music in Rochester is presenting a free virtual concert from our conservatory on Friday, October 23 at 7:30 p.m. EST. Learn more and register at chambermusicrochester.org/concerts

Emily Phoenix, Chief Object Preparator, reads "The Bluest of Blues: Anna Atkins and the First Book of Photographs" written and illustrated by Fiona Robinson, and read with the permission of ABRAMS Books. Check out the video and make your own cyanotypes inspired by the book at eastman.org/kids. Generous support for this video provided by Art Bridges. This video has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES.... Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this video, do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Join us Friday, October 16 at 1 p.m. for a free talk with artist James Welling and Lesley Martin of Aperture Foundation, who will discuss Welling's multilayered photographs composed of dance, nature, and architectural images from his series Choreograph, currently on view at the museum. Register now. This talk has been made possible in part by National Endowment for the Humanities: NEH CARES. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this talk, does not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

"It's called 'Clouds of the paramount chief, 2018' and the title refers to an essay by anthropologist Gaetano Mangiameli. The essay discusses the taboo that rests on the word for 'rainwater' in the chiefdom of Paga (Upper East Region of Ghana, Africa). The taboo is linked to the idea that it's not up to humans to claim a leading role in shaping the world. A fact that the Western world forgets or ignores except for when natural disaster strikes.... I like to photograph clouds because they seem without scale and are ever-changing. They are iconic and as such can come in many forms and still be recognized as clouds. The play between repetition and variation is very important in my photographic practice." --Bruno V. Roels, see his work on view in Gathering Clouds, now at the Eastman Museum.

Museum members, project supporters, and ESL Federal Credit Union employees get a special preview today of the new Thomas Tischer Visitor Center from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Remember to wear your mask! This photo shows guests from yesterday exploring the ESL Federal Credit Union Pavilion in the new Tischer Visitor Center.