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Your December 2024 reads

This month’s featured titles include a history Harlem by a government alum and a prof’s memoir about his education under Apartheid.

Painting of a mountain in blues, golds and greens

How art helped to shape modern France

Art historian Kelly Presutti examines the role that depictions of landscape – in paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain and maps – played in the formation of modern France in a new book.

Colonial Crossings
Johnson Museum staff prepare to hang a painting for “Colonial Crossings: Art, Identity, and Belief in the Spanish Americas,” the first exhibition of colonial Latin American art at Cornell. Noël Heaney/Cornell University

Ananda Cohen-Aponte Co-Curated Exhibition Featured in New York Times

Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Associate Professor of History of Art, Co-Curated Exhibition Is Featured in New York Times

Peter Loewen

Peter Loewen named dean of Arts and Sciences

Coming from the University of Toronto, where he was the director of the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Loewen began his five-year appointment as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences Aug. 1.

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