Highlights
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Exhibition
May 19–27, 2024
Group Show: Directions to Abyss — Senior B.F.A. Thesis Exhibition
View a thesis exhibition by Mia Brown-Seguin, Julia Hale, Olivia Sheldon, and Oliver Stern (all B.F.A. '24) that explores themes of wayfinding, navigation, the body within its environment, and transmutation of emotion.
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Stories
Monday, April 29, 2024
An Endless Conversation: The Art and Practice of Mendi + Keith Obadike
Cornell faculty and husband-and-wife creative team Mendi and Keith Obadike have worked for decades across music, text, and visual art to explore complex histories and social tensions. The resulting pieces invite the audience into a conversation with both the artists and their material.
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Exhibition
June 3–September 5, 2024
AAP Summer Exhibition 2024
Visit the AAP galleries this summer for a cross-departmental exhibition featuring student work from the 2023–24 academic year that showcases the college's creative and critical practices.
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Announcements
Tuesday, April 30, 2024
AAP Faculty David Costanza Named 2024–25 Rome Prize Winner
Costanza intends to use the award to advance his project Bending Stone, research which positions stone as a low-carbon structural building material and explores the aesthetics of structural stone in defining a new language in contemporary construction.
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In the Media
North America's Biggest City Is Running Out of Water
Vox: Mexico City is facing a water crisis, and it won't be the last city to do so. CRP Professor and Cornell Mui Ho Center for Cities Director Victoria Beard says climate change is just one of the contributing factors.
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Announcements
Peter Gerakaris (B.F.A. '03) to Present a Solo Exhibition of Mixed-Media Artworks at the BBG
PETER D. GERAKARIS STUDIO: Microcosms, a solo exhibition from artist Peter Gerakaris (B.F.A. '03), showcases environmental motifs rendered with dynamic coloration and a verve for placemaking. On view in the Leonhardt Gallery at Berkshire Botanical Garden from June 1 through August 4.
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In the Media
Congestion Pricing's Billions to Pay for Nuts and Bolts of Subway System
The New York Times: NYC's congestion pricing program, aimed at generating a $15 billion windfall for the mass transit system, is scheduled to begin charging tolls to drive into the busiest parts of Manhattan next month. CRP Strauch Fellow Zakhary Mallett says that New York's use of congestion pricing primarily to generate revenue for mass transit establishes conflicting goals.
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In the Media
Imagining Diasporic Retrofutures with Olalekan Jeyifous
The Institute of Black Imagination: Olalekan Jeyifous (B.Arch. '99) discusses how architecture alone is rarely sufficient in solving problems in the urban landscape, reimagines what the continent of Africa could have looked like if colonial powers were expelled post-independence, and challenges conventional notions of beauty and success in architecture and why storefront churches and bodegas deserve a shoutout.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
