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Visual Culture Colloquium with Jennifer Roberts 3/17/26

Making an impression: A new approach to classical concepts of the image

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.

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

Senga Nengudi, Water Composition (green), 1970. © Senga Nengudi. Photo: Thomas Barratt

Patricia Ekpo to give talk on Senga Nengudi

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.

Pulse of Art History with Hamed Yousefi 2/24/2026

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

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.

Geronimo Cristobal, PhD Candidate, Publishes in journal Art History

New Winter 2026 Course: ARTH 2550 An Introduction to Latin American Art

Pop Art and South Asia Conference in Jaffna, Sri Lanka

Pop Art and South Asia Conference December 15-16, 2025 Jaffna Thiruvalluvar Cultural Center Jaffna, Sri Lanka This conference focuses on South Asian art’s engagement with popular culture from the mid-twentieth century through the present. The rapid development of capitalism, urbanism, media, technology, and mass politics since the late nineteenth century has engendered multiple resonances in the complex societies of South Asia, providing openings for artists to engage with popular social and cultural developments. Here, Pop art is not confined to what is commonly understood in a Western context as engaging primarily with late capitalist consumer culture and media imagery. Rather, Pop artistic practices unfold in the context of uneven development, multiple temporalities, layered aesthetic regimes, within societies that are in rapid and turbulent transition.

The Findley Lecture with Emily Floyd 12/3/2025

Sara Garzon PhD ’22 is associate curator for the second Bienal das Amazônias 2025

The long, deep dig: Collaboration excavates the ancient city of Sardis

A collaboration between Cornell and Harvard has continuously excavated the ancient city.

Civil War still haunts American attitudes toward democracy

A new book by Shirley Samuels examines the story behind today’s divided America in literature and art created during and soon after the Civil War.

Pulse of Art History with Luke Fidler 11/11/2025

Objects from famous shipwreck tell deeper stories

La Pérouse’s expedition, wrecked in 1788, was intended to rival those of British explorer Captain James Cook and to bring the French renown in scientific knowledge. Through the visual materials related to the voyage and its wreck, Kelly Presutti tells a larger story about the enterprise of empire.

Professor Presutti's ARTH 2600 Takes Field Trip to Buffalo Museums

Professor Shirley Samuels publishes new book, Haunted by the Civil War

Harmonia Rosales’s artist lecture to be followed by a conversation with History of Art faculty Verity Platt and Ana Howie

Atreyee Gupta book talk on her two recently published titles

On Beverly Buchanan: Patricia Ekpo & Ima-Abasi Okon in conversation

Prof. Iftikhar Dadi presents on “Abstraction and Modernism” at the Clark Art Institute

Philip N. Sapirstein, PhD '08, Appointed Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto

‘Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty’ exhibit opens Sept. 24

The outdoor exhibit celebrates the centenary of Deskaheh Levi General’s 1923 intervention on behalf of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy at the League of Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.

Jolene Rickard Curates "Deskaheh in Geneva 1923-2023: Defending Haudenosaunee Sovereignty"

Visual Culture Colloquium with Michael Chagnon 9/30/2025

Hannah Ryan, PhD '19, Publishes New Book

New Faculty: Patricia Ekpo

Patricia Ekpo, History of Art and Visual Studies

2025 Nexus Scholars talk about academic growth, transformation

Ten students who participated in this summer's Nexus Scholars Program share their stories..

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in History of Art and Visual Studies 2026-28

Andrew Moisey Published in Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

Dr. Patricia Ekpo Joins Department as Assistant Professor

The Department of History of Art is pleased to welcome Patricia Ekpo (Ph.D. Yale University) as Assistant Professor of African American and African Diaspora Art.

Congratulations to Cornell History of Art PhD graduate Alice Clinch!

Congratulations to Cornell History of Art PhD graduate Kaitlin Emmanuel!

Congratulations History of Art Class of 2025!

Outstanding faculty win 2025 teaching and advising awards

Among those being recognized for exceptional teaching and mentorship this year are faculty members Begüm Adalet, Claudia Verhoeven, and Marcelo Aguiar.

'I understand truly how interconnected the world and its people are'

Ashley Koca is a Robert S. Harrison College Scholar and also majors in Near Eastern studies and history of art.