Features
A Sprrrawling Exhibition of Cat-Themed Meowsterpieces
More than 40 artists contributed paintings, sculptures, and other tributes to our favorite four-legged introverts for this salon-style show.
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Cornell University Announces MFA Exhibition Badminton Tournament
The cumulative efforts of Cornell’s MFA candidates from the classes of 2021 and 2022 are on view virtually at Bridget Donahue Gallery.
Announcement
Cornell University's MFA Program Supports Interdisciplinary and Medium-Specific Practices
Applications for the Master of Fine Arts at the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning are due by January 7, 2021.
Art
Outstanding MFA Work from Columbia, Cornell, and SVA
As summer winds down, Hyperallergic is continuing to highlight some of the superb work produced by recent MFA graduates from around the country.
Opinion
Grate Job, Guys: Cornell Fine Arts Library Privileges Architecture Over People
Architect Wolfgang Tschapeller says the library was designed with books in mind — but the grated floors fail to account for slushy snow boots, skirts, assisted mobility devices, and more.
Announcement
Cornell University Presents Its 2019 MFA Exhibition, Or High Water
The exhibition will feature twelve MFA candidates and will be on view from May 10 to 17 at Safe Gallery in Brooklyn.
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Cornell University Department of Art Presents Big Snack, 2018 MFA Exhibition at Signal
The exhibition features work by all 12 of the current M.F.A. candidates in Cornell’s interdisciplinary visual art program.
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A Database of Fugitive Slave Ads Reveals Thousands of Untold Resistance Stories
Freedom on the Move from Cornell University is the first major digital database of fugitive slave ads from North America.
History
North America's Largest Witchcraft Collection Has Its First Major Exhibition
The first major exhibit on the Cornell University Witchcraft Collection opens Halloween, and explores the persecution of women through its historic objects.
Art
Discover Over 1,700 Photos and Ephemera from the Early Years of Hip-Hop Online
The Sugar Hill Gang, Public Enemy, Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, and other hip-hop pioneers feature in the newly digitized material from Cornell University.
Art
The Octopus, a Motif of Evil in Historical Propaganda Maps
Since the 19th century, the motif of an octopus on propaganda maps has represented the inhuman spread of evil, its tentacles grasping for land and power.
Art
Uncommon Photographs from 100 Years of Daily African American Life
Cornell University Library has digitized over 600 seldom-seen images showing the lives of black Americans from the era of slavery to the 1960s.