Cynthia Robinson presents at UK Association for Art History Annual Conference, 4/8/2026
Cynthia Robinson presents at UK Association for Art History Annual Conference, 4/8/2026
The department encourages the crossing not only of geographic but also disciplinary borders through exploration of a wide range of fields including architecture, urban planning, critical and post-colonial theory, media studies, the sciences and social history.
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Johnson Museum of Art
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'Firing the Canon'
Associate Professor Annetta Alexandridis is featured in 'Firing the Canon: The Cornell Casts and Their Discontents':
Mnemosyne: Meanderings through Aby Warburg's Atlas
Begun in 1924 and left unfinished at the time of his death in 1929, the Mnemosyne Atlas is Aby Warburg’s attempt to map the “afterlife of antiquity,” or how images of great symbolic, intellectual, and emotional power emerge in Western antiquity and then reappear and are reanimated in the art and cosmology of later times and places, from Alexandrian Greece to Weimar Germany. Focusing especially on the Renaissance, the historical period where he found the struggle between the forces of reason and unreason to be most palpable, Warburg hoped that the Mnemosyne Atlas would allow its spectators to experience for themselves the “polarities” that riddle culture and thought.
Click here to explore ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas.
Department News
AIA National Lecture with Dr. Fae Amiro, 4/14/2026
AIA National Lecture with Dr. Fae Amiro, 4/14/2026
Nancy Lin to present at "Performing PostSocialism" at the University of Vienna, 4/9-4/10
Nancy Lin to present at "Performing PostSocialism" at the University of Vienna, 4/9-4/10
Jenna Marvin, PhD Candidate, Awarded Zhu Family Fellowship
Jenna Marvin, PhD Candidate, Awarded Zhu Family Fellowship
Donor’s fund enables dedicated humanities research
Jonathan Zhu, J.D. ’92, whose A.D. White Fellowship allowed him to attend Cornell, has established the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships supporting humanities doctoral students at Cornell University. Each of the three 2025 fellows – who are pursuing art history, anthropology, and science and technology studies, appreciates that the fellowship’s financial support paired with release from teaching responsibilities allows them the flexibility to pursue research questions as they arise.
Admitted Class of 2030 seeks real-world impact
Cornell admits the Class of 2030 emphasizing real-world impact, enrolling 5,776 students from 102 countries.
At Cornell University, the diverse cohort reflects the land-grant mission and applied learning goals across multiple colleges.
Visual Culture Colloquium with Andrea Berlin 4/7/26
Visual Culture Colloquium with Andrea Berlin 4/7/26
Ben Anderson speaks at inaugural event for The Encounter Series, Columbia University
Ben Anderson speaks at inaugural event for The Encounter Series, Columbia University,