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Design by Radical Indigenism with Julia Watson, landscape designer and educatorOrganized by Jolene Rickard, associate professor of History of Art and Visual Studies, Art, and director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies ProgramOct 30, 11:30am-12:30pmRegister: https://bit.ly/35EMGcbOn Traditional Ecological Knowledge and the...
Tuesday October 27th 11am-3 pm ESTLearn about Cornell's graduate programs. The Department of History of Art and Visual Studies will have faculty representatives in attendance. We are accepting applications for our PhD program this application cycle and we do not require the GRE.More information on the fairRegister for this eventLink to the...
Thursday, October 29 at 6:30 p.m. ETJolene Rickard (Tuscarora), artist, curator, and Associate Professor of the history of art and visual studies and Director of the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell University, discusses her work relating to Native and Indigenous aesthetics, artists, and identity in this engaging...
Lauren van Haaften-Schick, History of Art PhD candidate, will participate in the Frick Symposium 10/16/20 from 3-6 pm via Zoom. Her talk, “Underwriting Conceptual Art: Seth Siegelaub’s Patrons and Partners in Critique,” will be at about 4:30 pm.The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University jointly sponsor the annual...
The Pulse of Art History Lecture Series presents NIRIN and Powerful Objects: Brook Andrew in conversation with Jolene RickardRegister in advance for this lectureOctober 21,2020, 6pmNIRIN was the title of the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, which means “edge” in Wiradjuri, the language of western New South Wales in Australia, and of the artistic...
Hannah Ryan PhD '19, an Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College has curated an exhibition at the Flaten Art Museum. The exhibition "We No Longer Consider Them Damaged: The Abstract Photographs of Chandra McCormick and Keth Calhoun" is now available in 3D. Read more.
This presentation reflected on the Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia (MAHASSA) project, which brought together a team of international faculty and emerging scholars to investigate the cultural histories of these regions. Shaped by shared developments, these regions are marked by similar experiences that...
A Visual Culture Colloquium“Eurasian Silver: Building a Digital Database of 3rd- to 13th-Century Banqueting Vessels from Hoards”Register HereAbstractThis talk previews a digital database that catalogs 3rd- to 13th-century Iranian and Central Asian silver vessels found in hoards across northern Asia. The data collected for this database is...
Cornell History of Art Alumni Hannah Ryan, Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art at St. Olaf College gave the keynote address for a symposium "Labor Relations: The Worker and the Arts" at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill. The keynote was titled "Mother, Daughter: Maternal Labor in the Work of Betye and Alison Saar."UNC's...
An interview by Rachel High with curators Sheena Wagstaff and Brinda Kumar from The Met's Department of Modern and Contemporary Art about Richter's engagement with painterly tradition, his relationship to photography, and the reasons why the artist's work is increasingly relevant today.Kumar on Richter interview
SYMPOSIUM: AfricAsia: Overlooked Histories of Exchange September 14–16, 2020, 9–11 am Connections between African and Asian spaces have defined cultural identities and expressions across centuries. This symposium will consider the dynamic locations, unique objects, and remarkable individuals whose stories evidence a radical realignment of...
History of Art Alumni Natalia Di Pietrantonio PhD'18 accepts position as Assistant Curator at the Seattle Art Museum. She is SAM's first ever curator of South Asian Art.Di Pietrantonio will be speaking at a Cornell Alumni event about working at museums on the west coast Monday September 14th.Behind the Scenes of West Coast Museums
Congratulations to History of Art PhD candidate Kaja Tally-Schumacher for passing her B exam on Friday September 4th at 2 pm. The dissertation title:Cultivating Empire in Ancient Roman Gardens: Unearthing the Tangled Relationship Between Plants and Their Roman Gardeners
Office Manager, Vladimir Micic, at vm54@cornell.edu or 607-255-4905Office Coordinator, Sarah Blitz, at slb343@cornell.edu or 607-255-9861 History of Art office, GM08 Goldwin Smith Hall Image: John Thomas Serres. The Continuation of the Coast of Spain towards Bilbao, 14 July 1800 (detail). Watercolor. United Kingdom Hydrographic Office...
History of Art PhD candidate Lauren van Haaften-Schick awarded Smithsonian Institution FellowshipThe Smithsonian American Art Museum has announced the appointment of 21 fellows in the 2020–2021 academic year. The museum’s program hosts fellows appointed by the Smithsonian Office of Fellowships and Internships and grants its own awards for...
Brinda Kumar PhD '14, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art discusses life in New York City lockdown in an article for Artnet news.
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The murder of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis is only the most recent example of the state violence and structural subordination that Black people face in the United States, a violence and a subordination also confronted in unique ways by indigenous communities, and people of color. Cornell University has a particular responsibility to...
This event was recorded and is available through this link. Webinar Please join us for the ARP Press book launch Becoming Our Futures: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice hosted by the University of Winnipeg. With moderator and editor Dr. Julie Nagam the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Arts, Collaboration and Digital Media will...
Cornell University's History of Art Department Ph.D candidate Lara Fresko Madra has been awarded a Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. The Fellowship is the nation's largest and most prestigious award for Ph.D. candidates in the humanities and social sciences addressing questions of ethical and religious values. More detail...
The class of 2020 has completed their Cornell studies like no other class before them. An unprecedented semester unlike what any of us imagined, yet Professor McGowan comments she has been struck "struck by the tenacity, resilience and strength of our students." Quoted in the College's "Extrodinary Journey's," Art History major Kathie Jiang says “...
In the new issue of Southeast of Now, Professor Kaja McGowan wrote an essay about teaching at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum (Professor McGowan’s essay ). There is also a Roundtable on Teaching Southeast Asian Contemporary Art to which many of our former graduate students and emeritus faculty have contributed! Professor Dadi’s work is mentioned as...
Kathie Jiang, History of Art graduating senior in 2020, has been involved at the Johnson Museum of Art on campus during her studies at Cornell. She wrote a blog article about her experience for the Museum. Kathie's article.
ARTH 4855/ 6855 Threads of Consequence: Textiles in South and Southeast Asia (ASIAN 4487/6644, VISST 4855/6855)***PT - IN PERSON at the Johnson Museum UNTIL THANKSGIVING BREAK***K. McGowanW 12:40- 2:35 ***Tentative***by permission From boldly patterned cotton mantles to simple working garments, sumptuous silks to embroidered story...
ARTH 4151/ 6151 Topics in Media Art: Biological Art (VISST 4151/6151, STS 4511/6511)***ONLINE***M. FernandezM 9:10 – 11:05 ***Tentative*** From the late 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They have designed habitats, plants, body organs,...
ARTH 4110/ 6010 Curatorial Practicum*** PT IN-PERSON at the Johnson Museum until Thanksgiving break***S. SamuelsT 12:40 – 2:35 ***Tentative*** This course will explore visual and literary material surrounding women’s engagement in U. S. politics over the past two centuries. The seminar is collaborative and thematic, combining the...