Ended on March 26, 2005
Made by women of the Jembrana and Buleleng districts of western and northern Bali, embroideries called sulaman are used as offerings in rituals and celebrations connected to Hindu religious beliefs and practices.
Ended on February 12, 2006
This façade projection at the Johnson Museum is Pilar Albarracín’s first solo museum show in the United States.
Ended on March 12, 2006
A biennial exhibition by Cornell's artist-teachers.
Ended on March 19, 2006
This exhibition presents over seventy privately published woodblock prints dating from the pinnacle of surimono production, in the early nineteenth century.
Ended on March 26, 2006
A portrait of the Yangtze River and its people before, during, and after the completion of the Three Gorges Dam.
Ended on March 26, 2006
Japonisme was seen not only as a fashion for Japanese goods,
but among artists as a preference for the subject matter, style, and
patterning of Japanese art.
Ended on May 28, 2006
In his assemblage, installation, and wall works, Willie Cole
transforms domestic objects into powerful works embedded with references to the
African American experience and inspired by West African religion,
mythology, and culture.
Ended on June 11, 2006
Contemporary art in India has its basis in the modernist works of the
Progressive Artists Group, formed in 1947 (the same year that India
gained its independence). This
exhibition presents paintings, drawings, and prints by founding members
of that group and other modernists.
Ended on June 11, 2006
This exhibition focuses on what we, as student curators, found to be the
most compelling ways in which text and image produce meaning.
Ended on June 25, 2006
A celebration of Rembrandt’s 400th birthday with etchings from a private collection and prints from the Johnson's collection.
Ended on June 11, 2006
The Architect's Brother features work by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, organized by the George
Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film.
Ended on August 6, 2006
This exhibition pays tribute to our donors, particularly the Reunion
classes of 1946, 1951, 1956, and 1966, and a tribute to the generosity of Jonathan Stein, Class of
1966, who died tragically earlier this year.
Ended on August 20, 2006
A consummate artist, images throughout his career, from the 1930s to his
death in 1995, reflect his inquisitiveness and joy in the everyday
things that make up life.
Ended on August 20, 2006
The first museum exhibition of Saltonstall foundation artists, marking the first full ten years of Constance Saltonstall’s legacy to New York State artists and writers.
Ended on August 13, 2006
Cornell biologist Tom Eisner credits his mother, Margarete Heil, with having inspired his own celebrated photographic work.
Ended on August 20, 2006
The Ink Shop is an artists’ cooperative print space where the studio and exhibition spaces flow together, providing an immediacy and a reverberating excitement to everything that is going on.
Ended on October 1, 2006
This exhibition examines the fascination of 17th- and 18th-century artists with recording Europe’s landscapes and the
architectural monuments of its cities in prints available for sale to
travelers.
Ended on September 5, 2006
Prints and photographs from the Johnson’s permanent collection, in conjunction with Cornell’s New Student Reading Project’s assignment
of The Great Gatsby to all first-year undergraduates.
Ended on October 8, 2006
Carefully and painstakingly, O’Neil harnesses the core questions that
confront humanity and renders them in all of their richness and nuance
using that humblest of servants, a simple pencil.
Ended on October 22, 2006
Loop Negative One has no
beginning or end—describing a continuous circle, it refers to the
subjective experience of time and the paradox at the intersection of the
past, present, and future.
Ended on October 22, 2006
In 1948, Polaroid's founder Edwin H. Land introduced his invention,
instant photography, at a time when “snapshots” took weeks to be
processed.
Ended on October 22, 2006
Linked by an iconography of maritime themes, the paintings, paper cutouts, and collages by Don Doe, Dylan Graham, and Sally Smart signal a new romantic current in contemporary art.
Ended on November 26, 2006
The eighth installment in the façade projection series is the premiere
of an animation by New York–based artist Mark Fox, commissioned by the
Johnson Museum.
Ended on December 17, 2006
In drawings, there is seemingly no limit to the imaginative impulse, and the results
are both exciting in their creative stature and unusual in the
contradictions they exploit.
Ended on December 24, 2006
All the World Is Waiting for You is part of a series of video
installations that focus on the world of female amateur ice-skating and
the skaters’ desire for perfection and achievement.
Ended on January 21, 2007
These ancient ceramics and jades, spanning the 5th to 2nd millennia
BC, were produced before the formation of Chinese civilization itself
and convey the sophistication of early societies that emerged in
different regions.
Ended on December 24, 2006
This exhibition drawn exclusively from Dr. Arthur Brandt's collection
presents approximately 150 works primarily from Dada and Surrealism, which many consider world
views or religions rather than art movements.
Ended on January 14, 2007
Jem Southam' Upton Pyne series, fifty photographs in total, was taken during a seven-year period in which he chronicled the changes in a pond in a small commuter community near his home in Cornwall, England. This exhibition presents selections from that series.
Ended on January 14, 2007
The study of Daoist art is still a relatively new field in the West. This exhibition, drawn from the Johnson’s collection of Chinese art,
provides a glimpse into this complex philosophy and the artwork it
inspired.
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