By Jane Smith
The historical Cornell Art Museum, closed for about 15 months in a dispute between the city and its previous operators, hosted a grand reopening reception on Dec. 28.
The Surfing Florida Museum has an exhibit on the top floor. On the gro
By Jane Smith
While Delray Beach residents were meeting about the future of Old School Square, Boca Raton Museum of Art officials who were getting a second look at operating Delray’s Cornell Art Museum decided they were no longer interested in the gi
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach commissioners have not settled on a plan yet for how best to use the Cornell Museum of Art at Old School Square during the fast-approaching summer season.
Following a May 17 commission workshop on the subject, City Manager T
By Jane Smith
Delray Beach city commissioners switched course in early April and rejected a plan by the Boca Raton Museum of Art to run operations at the Cornell Art Museum.
Instead, the commission will hold a workshop May 17 at City Hall and invite o
By Jane Smith
The Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency is demanding the return of $187,500 it gave to the former operators of the Old School Square campus that is the cultural heart of the city’s downtown.
The CRA board, composed of the five ci
Related Story: CRA demands financial records from departed Old School Square management
By Jane Smith
The Boca Raton Museum of Art is in talks to take over the operations of the Cornell Art Museum on the Delray Beach Old School Square campus.
City Ma
By Jane Smith
With a lawsuit looming and no suitors to manage Delray Beach’s historic arts and culture center, the city is trying to cobble together a team to manage the Old School Square campus once the lease — canceled last year by the city — expir
Melanie Johanson, Cornell Museum curator, with one of artist Will Kurtz’s
sculptures, Linda the Dog Walker.
Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
Melanie Johanson and her husband, Greer Prather, moved to Delray Beach three years ago from New Orleans, whe
Gloria Adams has worked at the Delray Beach Center for the Arts at Old School Square for 25 years, 23 of them as director of the Cornell Museum of Art. Libby Volgyes/The Coastal Star
By Lucy Lazarony
For 25 years, artist Gloria Adams has brought
Inez Layne flies a dragon kite with her daughters Rhyan and Elle Fleisher, during Family Fun Day at The Cornell Museum in Delray Beach. Tim Stepien/The Coastal Star
By Kelly Wolfe
What a kite is or isn’t depends on who’s flying it. It could be me
