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Martie Wing Young, art historian in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, died at 96. He helped establish the Johnson Museum of Art, expanded Cornell’s Asian art collections and exhibitions, and shaped decades of teaching and museum leadership.
Congratulations to Ayesha Matthan, PhD ‘26!
Congratulations to Catherine Rucker, PhD ‘26!
Congratulations History of Art Class of 2026!
Ayesha Matthan, PhD ‘26, has been awarded the 2026 Joan and Stanford Alexander Dissertation Award in Photography by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).
Kaitlin Emmanuel, PhD ’25, presents at Princeton University’s Program in South Asian Studies
Several Cornell College of Arts and Sciences graduate students and one faculty member from the college were honored with 2026 Graduate Excellence and Impact Awards. Presented May 13, the awards honor leadership, service and mentorship.
Kaja McGowan and Ellen Avril curate “The Hum of Life: A Thousand and One Tales from Bali” at the Johnson Museum.”
Iftikhar Dadi presents keynote at the CUNY Graduate Center
Cornell University students in a practicum seminar curated an exhibit “Indonesia Embodied: Performing the Space Between” at the Johnson Museum. Students produced the show, highlighting Southeast Asian works and research on performance and provenance.
Cornell’s College of Arts & Sciences honors the winners of its 2026 teaching and advising awards. Faculty members Nicole Giannella, Karola Mészáros and Landon Schnabel stand out this year, earning major awards for excellence; many instructors and teaching assistants received recognition, as well.
The Native American Art Studies Association gave artist and art historian Jolene Rickard, professor in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences and in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program (AIISP) in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, a lifetime achievement award. A citizen of the Skarù·ręʔ / Tuscarora Nation (Hodinöhsö:ni Confederacy), Rickard is…
Professor Jolene Rickard receives 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award by the Native American Art Studies Association (NAASA)
Meita Estiningsih, PhD Candidate, presented at the 2026 Annual Frick Symposium on the History of Art
Jolene Rickard presented at the First America Conference at Yale University
Jenna Marvin, PhD Candidate, Awarded Deanne Gebell Gitner ’66 and Family Annual Prize for Teaching Assistants
Anissa Rahadiningtyas, PhD ‘21, presents at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
PhD candidate Ayesha Matthan publishes online essay on MoMA post: notes on art in a global context.
Leonardo Santamaria Montero, doctoral candidate in Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences, studies visual and material culture of 19th-century Central America. His dissertation work is supported by a Zhu Family Graduate Fellowship.
Olivia Kim is majoring in economics and history of art & visual studies
Annetta Alexandridis, classical archaeologist and art historian in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences, died April 13. Known for her hands-on approach, she was associate director of the Harvard-Cornell Exploration of Ancient Sardis, Türkiye and co-curated the Cornell Plaster Cast Collection.
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…
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.
For the ancient Greeks, an image could be understood as a seal pressed on a material to leave a mark, as opposed to an inferior imitation (mimēsis), scholar Verity Platt argues in a new book.
A new student-led installation at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art explores the role of “staffage" figures.
