In the Media

Tuesday, March 11, 2025

At This Architectural Gem, an Artist Was Present. Horses, Too.

The New York Times: Artist Jill Magid (B.F.A. '95) is mentioned in this article about a private home designed by the famed Mexican architect Luis Barragán that will soon be the new La Cuadra cultural center in Mexico City.


Monday, March 10, 2025

The 100 Best Artworks of the 21st Century

ARTnews: Blackness for Sale, the work of Cornell faculty husband-and-wife creative team Mendi and Keith Obadike, is on this list of the greatest 100 artworks of the past 25 years, as selected by the editors of ARTnews and Art in America.


Monday, March 3, 2025

AAP Faculty Art Featured in Eden on Fire Article

The New York Review: The work of Art Lecturer Leslie Brack is the featured illustration in this article about the LA fires.


Tuesday, December 3, 2024

In Grim Times, Art Finds a Way

The Washington Post: Department of Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's 2017 conceptual interactive performance piece, Alternative Facts, was featured in this article about how art helps the American public process electoral politics.


Friday, September 20, 2024

An Artist Reimagines the Spaces of Childhood, With Thorny Results

Bloomberg: Featuring Hugh Hayden's (B.Arch. '07) wooden sculptures inspired by his childhood, including his provocative replica of Kidsville, a suburban Dallas example of the wooden playgrounds that flourished in the 1980s.


Friday, September 20, 2024

Josh Owen: Renowned Industrial Designer, Educator, and Author

Designculture: Artist Josh Owen (B.F.A. '94) discusses his experience studying at Cornell in Rome and with Associate Professor of Art Roberto Bertoia.


Tuesday, September 3, 2024

Along US Route 441, Scenes of the Demoralizing American Grind

The New York Times: A review of Orange Blossom Trail by artist Joshua Lutz and author George Saunders, edited by AAP art faculty Catherine Taylor and Nicholas Muellner for their ITI Press.


Monday, July 29, 2024

Orange Blossom Trail (ITI Press) to Release This Fall

Publisher's Weekly: Orange Blossom Trail by artist Joshua Lutz and author George Saunders, edited by AAP art faculty Catherine Taylor and Nicholas Muellner for their ITI Press, will be released this fall and has been selected by Publisher's Weekly for their Fall 2024 Most Notable Titles List.


Tuesday, July 2, 2024

This New York City Basketball Court Just Became a Spectacular Work of Art

Fast Company: Renowned artist and AAP Alumn Na Chainkua Reindorf (M.F.A. '17), known for feminist art that often incorporates the motif of an eye, was commissioned to redesign a NYC basketball court.


Wednesday, June 26, 2024

What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June

The New York Times: Painting Deconstructed, an exhibition featuring 46 contemporary artists curated by Art Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin, is reviewed.


Monday, April 15, 2024

Michael Singer, Sculptor Who Used Nature as His Medium, Dies at 78

The New York Times: Michael Singer (B.F.A. '67) was a sculptor whose work eventually blurred the lines separating art, landscaping, architecture, and urban planning on an increasingly large scale.


Thursday, April 11, 2024

Kay WalkingStick's Layered Landscapes Get Under the Genre's Surfaces

Art in America: WalkingStick discusses her approach to painting — and probing — landscapes, all the while looking past the land's surface to unearth its wounds.


Monday, April 1, 2024

Emilio Rojas on Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands: The New Mestiza

LENSCRATCH: In this interview, Art Visiting Critic Emilio Rojas discusses his enduring relationship with Anzaldúa's revolutionary ideas, her lasting legacy, and the profound influence she had in the performer's practice and pedagogy.


Friday, March 1, 2024

Hannah Levy (B.F.A. '13) — Adaptive Structures

Art21: In this "New York Close Up" digital short produced by Art21, Levy describes the ad hoc processes she's developed in her Bronx studio to make her unique sculptural forms, calling herself a "professional amateur."


Friday, January 5, 2024

In Their "Epic" Lofted Studio, Artist Baseera Khan Paints, Collages, Draws, and Dreams

Artnet: Khan (M.F.A. '12) shares insights into their studio practice, favorite tools, and current explorations.


Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Reframing the American Landscape

The New York Times: A profile of Art Professor Emerita Kay WalkingStick, whose exhibition of work in dialogue with paintings from the Hudson River School is currently on view at the New-York Historical Society.


Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Where the Artists Are Present — and In Charge

The New York Times Style Magazine: This feature story on the impact of artist-run galleries includes the work of Ortega y Gasset Projects in Gowanus, cofounded by Art Assistant Professor Leeza Meksin.


Monday, September 11, 2023

Art on the Mall: American Diversity on Display

CBS Sunday Morning: Highlights from Beyond Granite: Pulling Together, the first-ever curated exhibition on the National Mall, which presents works from a diverse range of artists including Art Chair and Professor Paul Ramírez Jonas (at 3:50).


Wednesday, August 30, 2023

The Seduction of Systems: A Conversation with Jill Magid

The Brooklyn Rail: Jill Magid (B.F.A. '95) shares insights into her art, process, and what she hopes people take away from her work.


Friday, August 18, 2023

On Our National Mall, New Monuments Tell New Stories

The New York Times: A review of Pulling Together, an exhibition on the National Mall that features "prototype monuments" by six artists, including Art Chair Paul Ramírez Jonas's Let Freedom Ring.


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