The most popular early use of photography was recording the likenesses of friends and loved ones. Conceptions of portraiture have changed dramatically, and this exhibition looks at the recent “up close and personal” approach.

Concerted efforts in postwar Japan to revive traditional crafts and reestablish national identity fostered the flourishing of a ceramic arts movement that continues to thrive today.

Sam Jury (Cornell MFA 1998) creates an animated portrait that is no one and everyone all at once, suspending the spectator between places and experiences remembered and imagined.

Historical photographic processes and their use by contemporary photographers in our increasingly digital age, organized by the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

The Johnson Museum and Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections present prints, books, manuscripts, and portraits reflecting the culture of the French Renaissance court.

James Siena (Class of 1979) is the 2009–10 recipient of the Eissner Artist of the Year Award from the Cornell Council for the Arts, which the CCA and the Museum are celebrating with a very personal exhibition of work selected exclusively from his studio.

From the iconic monumentality of hanging scrolls to the conceptual rhetoric of contemporary photographs, the Chinese landscape is always evolving.

From theoretical landscapes to direct observations, this exhibition explores the evolution of Chinese artists' approaches to depicting the natural world in the Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.

Curated by the History of Art Majors' Society, this exhibition explores iconic as well as strange representations of the human figure.

Photographic work, video, and a major topographical installation made from recycled cardboard by this assistant professor and director of graduate studies in Cornell's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning's Department of Art.

Highlights of a private collection of pieced quilts made in American in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Two life-size figurative sculptures, by Folkert de Jong and Wil Ryman, show that the figure is alive and well in contemporary sculpture, addressing a wide variety of topical issues.

At the end of the 19th century, Alfred Stieglitz changed the way artists approached the photographic process, pushing them and himself to create works that would place photography among the fine arts.

Highlighting the word of the Wiener Werkstätte from a private collection, alongside decorative works that were created to be used and lived with from the Johnson's collection.

Contemporary artists from the Middle East, Central Asia, and their diasporas, whose works use different methods of translation.

The first comprehensive exhibition of prints produced by the artist thus far in her career.

This exhibition examines trees in art—both as muse for artists inspired by the beauty and variety of trees in the natural environment, and as a means for representing human history, abstract concepts, and scientific knowledge.

Wood engravings cut on the end grain of wood have been used in prints and commercial illustration for over two centuries.

Modern and contemporary works by a distinguished group of international artists, highly experimental in their abstracted forms and expressive glazing.

From early 20th-century modernists, to the works of the WPA Administration artists during the Depression, to contemporary realists, this exhibition celebrates the very personal interaction of collectors with their art, and the story this art tells about 20th-century American life.