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Cornell Dairy will debut its limited-edition flavor “Cosmos Swirl,” a chocolate-based flavor with marshmallow swirl and white chocolate chips, in honor of the Johnson Museum’s 50th anniversary.
Acclaimed artist Guadalupe Maravilla is scheduled to present a talk in the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on Wednesday, April 27 as a part of the University’s “Migrations Global Grand Challenge,” a program supporting research and literature on topics of racism, migration and dispossession.
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum reopened to the public Thursday, inviting guests to enjoy its collections and galleries after over a year of limited admittance.
MFA and BFA student curators continue to host galleries through COVID with the help of the Johnson Museum.
Perhaps the most moving aspect of the exhibition lies in understanding how much truly went into the production of these fabrics.
Cornell has named Jessica Martinez, the current director of Academic and Public Programs at Harvard University, as the new director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Johnson Museum’s former director Stephanie Wiles left for Yale in July. After her departure, the role has been temporarily filled by Peter Gould and Ellen Avril, who also serves the museum’s chief curator and curator of Asian art. The director of the Museum is in charge of overseeing all museum operations. Martinez will be responsible for fundraising, personnel-management, acquisition of objects and conservation efforts, for example.
Stephanie Wiles, current director of Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, will helm the Yale University Art Gallery starting this July, Yale University recently announced.
From Picasso to Piranesi, Cassatt to Cunningham, the Johnson Museum’s Highlights from the Collection: 45 Years at the Johnson showcases a wide variety of art. The scope is immense in both historical and geographical breadth. Upon entering the exhibition, I found myself face-to-face with a cow with its head turned to the side, eyeing some distant pastoral horizon as though musing over the kinds of deep insights only cows are sensible of. Its front legs are posed as though aware of an audience — Constant Troyon’s 19th century bovine scene is at once striking and peaceful, unique and unobtrusive. Past the cow is a row of medieval Asian art where a bronze 12th century Ganesha is adjacent to a 15th century Burmese tile depicting two elephant-headed warriors.
Sticky notes describing anatomical appendages, insulting President Donald Trump, promoting equality and honoring the late gorilla Harambe cover a museum wall, part of a new exhibit at the Johnson.
In a collection of photographs and audio at the Johnson Museum of Art, five engineering students shared stories of Ithaca’s elderly, homeless, refugees, advocates,with the public and Cornellians. The exhibit – titled “Untold” – is currently available online at untoldatcornell.com