The department’s Visual Resources Collection has launched a major initiative to digitize and catalogue a key archive for the study of Byzantine icons—thousands of color images of the icons owned by the Monastery of Saint Catherine at Mount Sinai. The oldest continuously ...

Professor Cécile Fromont will speak on “The Art of Conversion: Kongo Christian Visual Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic World” on September 29 in McCormick 106 at 4:30 pm.

Fromont is assistant professor of art history at the University of Chicago. ...

The current exhibition in the gallery space outside McCormick 106 highlights some superb examples of 19th-century mammoth-plate albumen prints from the department’s Research Photographs collection.

The albumen process, first used around 1850, was the dominant photographic ...

The Freshman Academic Expo is an informational open house that offers freshman interested in majoring in art history, archaeology, and studio art the opportunity to learn about everything the Department of Art and Archaeology has to offer.

Come and meet representatives ...

An extraordinary tea-leaf storage jar made in China in the late 13th or 14th century and recently acquired by the Freer and Sackler Galleries of Art in Washington, DC, will be the centerpiece of an exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum co-curated by Professor Andrew ...

“At Work with Artwork,” a roundtable discussion series co-organized by department graduate students Hannah Yohalem and Elizabeth Osenbaugh, brings museum directors and curators from a variety of institutions to campus to discuss their previous and current work, what ...

Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu’s fall 2014 seminar “Kongo Art” will examine the role of art in the social life of the Kongo Kingdom and related peoples of Central Africa, from the arrival of Spanish explorers and missionaries in the 15th century through the era ...

“Anxious Metropolis: Shanghai’s Urban Cultures, 1842–2012” focuses on the evolution of Shanghai to a bustling port, colonialist beachhead, hub of international commerce in the 1930s, and today a major testing ground for contemporary architecture. Team-taught ...

The department’s Professor Michael Koortbojian has been named M. Taylor Pyne Professor of Art and Archaeology. The Pyne Professorship was established in 1913 by a gift from Moses Taylor Pyne, a member of the Class of 1877 and a trustee of Princeton University from 1885 to ...

The Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project (MTAP) investigates an ancient trading port located on the Thracian Sea between ancient Abdera and Maroneia. The project, which began in 2013, aims to ascertain the identity, form, and chronology of the ...

The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has announced that Professor Hal Foster will be a member of its sixteenth class of Cullman Center Fellows. The 2014 class of Fellows will be in residence at the Cullman Center from ...