Ancient Copies, Modern Methods: Replication, Translation, and Reception in the Work of Margarete Bieber
Ancient Copies, Modern Methods: Replication, Translation, and Reception in the Work of Margarete Bieber 2/26-2/27
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
Feb
27
Friday
09:00 AM
Mar
13
Friday
12:30 PM
Piano Series: Beyond the Parlor—Women Shaping American Musical Life, 1860–1930
Johnson Museum of Art
Robinson Lecture Hall
Mar
17
Tuesday
04:45 PM
Apr
10
Friday
04:45 PM
Apr
16
Thursday
05:15 PM
A Conversation with Alexis Rockman
Johnson Museum of Art
Robinson Lecture Hall
'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
Museum installation focuses on small figures in large landscapes
A new student-led installation at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art explores the role of “staffage" figures.
History of Art Seeking Postdoctoral Associate as part of Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative
History of Art Seeking Postdoctoral Associate as part of Cornell’s Active Learning Initiative
College of Arts and Sciences announces 2026 Klarman Fellows
The 12 early-career scholars will pursue research in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Visual Culture Colloquium with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 2/10/26
Visual Culture Colloquium with Rosemarie Garland-Thomson 2/10/26
Faculty event to highlight how teaching about climate change can move beyond discourse and despair
On Jan. 28, the Center for Teaching Innovation and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will co-host “Teaching About Climate Change: Art, Action and Reflection,” a faculty panel, teaching workshop and exhibit tour exploring how instructors can engage the humanities, climate change and community in their teaching.