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The College of Arts & Sciences
Our department studies areas traditionally central to the discipline such as ancient, medieval and Renaissance art, and the integration of recent fields of theory and research to the study of global visual culture. Students further their understanding of the discipline of art history, its roots, its methodologies, as well as its historical and critical connections with other disciplines.
The “Sculpture Shoppe” exhibition displays selections from Cornell’s plaster cast collection of Greco-Roman sculptures alongside – and sometimes within – contemporary artists’ responses to cast culture and classical art.
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ARTH FWS student Ashley Koca '25 publishes essay in Fenjan journal of Near Eastern Studies.
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Lauren van Haaften-Schick PhD '22, has been awarded the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for the Humanities at Wesleyan University.
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Hear about the Cornell experiences of some of the amazing students in our graduating class.
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History of Art and Visual Studies is excited to announce Ana Howie will be joining the department as assistant professor.
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Lara Fresko Madra, Sara Garzón, and Lauren van Haaften-Schick held B-Exams in 2022.
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The Sculpture Shoppe, located in a former retail space in Ithaca Mall, will be open through the month of May.
Read MoreCornell University is located on the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' (the Cayuga Nation). The Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' are members of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, an alliance of six sovereign Nations with a historic and contemporary presence on this land. The Confederacy precedes the establishment of Cornell University, New York state, and the United States of America. We acknowledge the painful history of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' dispossession, and honor the ongoing connection of Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' people, past and present, to these lands and waters.
This land acknowledgment has been reviewed and approved by the traditional Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫ' leadership.
