The Sun recaps The Year in Arts, looking back at events that took place on campus and greater trends worldwide. Illustrations by: Santi Slade '14, Zander Abranowicz '14 and Alexander Holm '14. Edited by Gina Cargas '14, Daveen Koh '14 and Zachary Zahos '15.

After just 66.7 percent of the students entering the College of Architecture, Art and Planning in 2003 graduated — the lowest rate for all colleges that year — AAP took several measures to improve its graduation rate. 

“LUX: Art and Science Exhibition,” the first display of its kind, promoted innovation and investigation within the arts and the hard sciences. Last weekend, select artists from around the world and distinguished Cornell scientists gathered at Willard Straight Hall and Milstein Hall to present an exhibition that combined both science and art through the medium of light. 

Light dazzles and incises at LUX, an amalgamation of art installations and science lectures that celebrates light. Tom Moore '14 is fascinated but worried. 

The Johnson Museum's Age of Discontent: German Expressionist Works from a Private Collection follows the progression and triumphs of the influential movement, as Samantha Myers '15 recounts.

Through Virginia Woolf, the Johnson Museum, Noel Gallagher and the surprising bliss of circumnavigating flights, Daveen Koh '14 finds the beautiful, personal of idealism.

What is space? It's everywhere and between each of us, both physically and politically. Heather McAdams '14 explores.

Daveen Koh '14 admires controversial artist Damien Hirst — infamous for preserving a dead shark in formaldehyde and calling it "art" — for the more arbitrary values he champions.

Tyran Grillo grad recounts the beautiful and quite entertaining shadow puppet production by Indonesian shadow puppet master, Purbo Asmoro.

Eleni Konstantopoulos '13 reviews the affecting art-dance piece, Nowhere and Everywhere at the Same Time.