2018

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Exhibit chronicles women’s empowerment through fashion
November 27, 2018
Chronicling how women have strategically used fashion to empower and collectively uplift themselves, the exhibition is part of the 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial and explores the Biennial theme of...
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Cornell Exhibit to Feature Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Shoes, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Collars
November 27, 2018
Chronicling how women have strategically used fashion to empower and collectively uplift themselves, the exhibition is part of the 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial and explores the Biennial theme of...
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Knotted installation proposes ways to reduce timber waste
October 29, 2018
When a tree is harvested for wood, what happens to the pieces that aren’t ramrod straight? An installation designed by Cornell University’s Robotic Construction Laboratory (RCL) proposes an answer to that...
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Milstein students get a glimpse of artist Xu Bing’s character
October 4, 2018
Students in the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity were treated to a special Q&A session Sept. 26 with Chinese artist and A.D. White Professor-at-Large Xu Bing, whose animation “The...
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CCA Biennial launches with art projects across campus
October 4, 2018
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial launched with a tour of outdoor projects on campus Sept. 28 and artist panels at a conference Sept. 29. The Biennial...
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Log Knot, The Emperor’s Canary, and Todd: AAP Faculty and Student Work in the 2018 CCA Biennial
October 1, 2018
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial is underway and includes three projects by AAP students and faculty, each taking a different approach to this year's theme of...
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Carrie Mae Weems: HEAVE
September 25, 2018
Produced by Carrie Mae Weems for the 2018 CCA Biennial, Heave is a two-part artwork installed in specially designed pavilions on Cornell’s central Arts Quad. Linked to Weems’ 2017 project for the Park Avenue Armory, A...
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What are the Mysterious Structures on the Arts Quad?
September 16, 2018
One day, Cornellians woke up to find two unassuming, beige-colored structures in the Arts Quad that didn’t entirely seem at home there. Some students jokingly speculated the construction was part...
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A Meditation on Tongues
Dance, multimedia performance to open 2018 CCA Biennial
September 12, 2018
The 2018 Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) Biennial kicks off Sept. 14-15 at 8 p.m. at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts with “A Meditation on Tongues,” conceived and directed...
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Ni'Ja Whitson, A Meditation on Tongues. Photo: Scott Shaw.
CCA Biennial 2018: Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival
September 10, 2018
The Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) announces the theme and participants for the 3rd CCA Biennial, 2018, Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival. Curated by CCA Director, Timothy Murray, the 2018 CCA Biennial...
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The LOG KNOT installation is composed of irregularly-shaped logs connected in a twisting design. BreAnne Fleer / Sun News Editor
Robotically-Built LOG KNOT Installation on Ag Quad Optimizes Wood Usage
September 4, 2018
Looping around itself on the Ag Quad stands LOG KNOT — On Perpetual Wood Cycles and Forest Processes, a new installation built with robotic technology and made of wood that...
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TEXTURE
TEXTURE Exhibit Invites Patrons Into a World of Tactile Textiles
August 30, 2018
Cornellians can now immerse themselves in a world of fabric and feel their way through a new exhibit called TEXTURE, hosted by the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection. TEXTURE displays...
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Empathy Project
Empathy project goes online
August 17, 2018
Since its launch in September 2016, the Cornell Race and Empathy Project has recorded, archived and shared the everyday stories of Cornellians that evoke racial empathy. The project was funded through the...
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Ni'Ja Whitson, A Meditation on Tongues. Photo: Scott Shaw.
2018 Biennial on ‘Duration’ to feature major artists
May 17, 2018
With the theme “Duration: Passage, Persistence, Survival,” the Biennial opens Sept. 27-29 on campus with a conference, public lectures by Weems and Xu, and participating faculty members and students joining...
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The Aizuri Quartet, from left, Ariana Kim, Karen Ouzounian, Ayane Kozasa and Miho Saegusa.
Ariana Kim, Aizuri Quartet win prestigious M-Prize
May 15, 2018
The Aizuri Quartet, with violinist and assistant professor of music Ariana Kim, took the grand prize May 6 at the M-Prize Chamber Music Competition held at the University of Michigan in Ann...
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Wynton Marsalis
Students, faculty reflect on lessons from Wynton Marsalis’ visit
April 5, 2018
Intense. Approachable. Wise. Those were among the impressions several Cornell faculty and students have from a week spent with jazz musician and educator Wynton Marsalis, on campus March 22-28 for...
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Jacqueline Fogarty ’18
Designers prep for 34th annual Runway Show
March 8, 2018
With materials ranging from locally sourced fibers to reclaimed scraps from clothing manufacturers, and designs from transparently human (and feminine) to one-size-fits-all, the 2018 Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) Runway Show,...
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Wynton Marsalis
Wynton Marsalis to mentor, perform during Cornell visit March 22-28
March 5, 2018
Famed musician Wynton Marsalis comes to Cornell next week for his first visit as an Andrew Dickson White Professor-at-Large, to mentor and perform with student musicians, participate in classes and...
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Locally Grown Dance 2018
Locally Grown Dance performances showcase improvisation, discipline
February 27, 2018
The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) will present the 2018 Locally Grown Dance concert March 1-3 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on the Kiplinger Theatre...
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