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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Upcoming Events
Apr
10
Thursday
04:00 PM
Artist’s Visit: Wang Tiande
Johnson Museum of Art
Apr
11
Friday
02:30 PM
Calligraphy Demonstration with Wang Tiande
Johnson Museum of Art
Apr
17
Thursday
05:15 PM
A Conversation on Suzi Ferrer
Johnson Museum of Art
Robinson Lecture Hall
Apr
18
Friday
05:00 PM
Suzi Ferrer Exhibition Open House
Johnson Museum of Art
'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
Priscila Dantas de Moraes Accepted at American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Priscila Dantas de Moraes Accepted at American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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History of art staff member publishes research on face pots
Danielle Vander Horst, M.A., '19 will continue her study of Romano-British face pots, pursuing a Ph.D. through Cornell's Employee Degree Program.
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History of Art Senior Honors Thesis Symposium 3/21/2025
Join Us for the History of Art Senior Honors Thesis Symposium 3/21/2025
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Visual Culture Colloquium with Ricardo Padrón 3/11/25
Visual Culture Colloquium with Ricardo Padrón 3/11/25
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Your February 2025 reads
This month’s featured titles include books by A&S faculty and alumni: poetry, a kids’ book about Bali, and a short story collection.
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Asli Menevse PhD ’21 is Assistant Professor, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
Asli Menevse PhD ’21 is Assistant Professor, Program in Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
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Sarah Humphreville, BA and BFA ’09, is Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Sarah Humphreville, BA and BFA ’09, is Lunder Curator of American Art at the Colby College Museum of Art.
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