The History of Art Majors' Society's exhibit, Bodies Unbound: The Classical and Grotesque, recently opened at The Johnson Museum, blurring and reconstructing the definitions of classical and grotesque.

A new exhibition at Mann Library, "The Sweet-Voiced Bird has Flown: Portraits of Common Birds in Decline," combines the aritistic talents of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators with the confounding research in the science community. It illustrates threatened birds, facing the possible perils of climate change and human development.

They were just exhibition games, but against the University of Windsor and the U.S. Under-18 National Team, the men’s hockey team got a glimpse of its future as well as a blast from the past. Among the six rookies making their Lynah Rink debuts on Friday night in Cornell’s 7-0 rout of Windsor was forward Chris Moulson, brother of Matt Moulson ’06, a former team captain and current left winger for the New York Islanders. Seeing Moulson on the back of a Red sweater might have given die-hard fans flashbacks to the Red’s last ECAC Hockey championship (in 2005), but another rookie, defenseman Nick D’Agostino, scored two goals against Windsor and took steps towards helping the Red back to the top of the league.

Like well-written prose, the current exhibition of works from the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, in Hartell Gallery teaches its audience how to view, or read, it. This is especially helpful because the audience of a show so far from its home is inherently foreign. Although the artistic language of artists from the eastern and western hemispheres is similar enough, the tone of the works from half a world away is perhaps unfamiliar to the western viewer. The show’s teaching mechanism refrains from being didactic; rather, it unobtrusively introduces a lens through which to understand its elements.

Prints and drawings have long ended up on the wrong side of prevailing trends, as they are often overlooked as second-rate works and preliminary sketches. In the new show at the Johnson Museum, contemporary curator Andrea Inselmann makes a spectacular case for the majesty of these primitive practices by exploring their rich history in contemporary art and complex, often painstaking processes.

After the men’s hockey team took a strong U.S. Under-18 National Team to overtime last Saturday, finishing the game with the score knotted at 3, Lynah Rink will be the site of another preseason exhibition matchup tonight.

This week’s opponent is also a collection of elite skaters, but the University of Western Ontario crossed a national boundary to get to Ithaca.

Angry face: Sophomore forward Tyler Roeszler (right) scored in the Red’s first exhibition game last weekend.

Tonight’s contest will be the Red’s second and final exhibition match before conference play begins in two weeks.