The Medieval Academy of America has announced the 2023 prize recipients, including Van Courtlandt Elliott Prize winner A&A alumnus John Lansdowne *19 and Digital Humanities and Multimedia Studies Prize co-recipients Julia Gearhart (A&A’s Director of Visual Resources) and Alice Isabella Sullivan (Assistant Professor Medieval Art and…
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By Julian Lucas
January 21, 2023
It often takes a few…
The Historians of British Art (HBA) annually awards prizes to outstanding books on the history of British art, architecture, and visual culture. Anna Arabindan-Kesson’s Black Bodies, White Gold: Art, Cotton, and Commerce in the Atlantic World (Duke University Press 2021) received this year’s award for a single-authored…
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Sachs Scholarship awarded to two Princeton seniors, one Oxford studentEmily Aronson, Office of Communications
Jan. 19, 2023
Princeton seniors Shaun Cason and Anna Allport and University of Oxford student Isabelle (Izzy) Stuart have been named recipients of the Daniel M. Sachs Class of 1960…
A&A doctoral student Iheanyi Onwuegbucha is among the co-curators who assisted A&A and African American studies professor Chika Okeke-Agulu in producing the first museum survey of Samuel Fosso’s work in the United States: Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts, …
We are very pleased to announce that as of July 1, 2023, a paid subscription will no longer be required for access to the Index of Medieval Art database. This transition was made possible by a generous grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the ongoing support of the Index’s parent department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton…
Excerpt from New York Times, Critic's Pick, Jan. 5, 2023
Within Himself, an African Photographer Finds Multitudes A studio portraitist turns the lens on flamboyant alter egos in his first solo U.S. museum exhibition at Princeton.By Arthur Lubow
"In the aftermath of the civil war in Nigeria that devastated his…
Congratulations to Department of Art & Archaeology graduate students Mengge Cao, Iheanyi Onwuegbucha, and Michael Zhang along with Shruti Sharma (Electrical and Computer Engineering), for winning first place and $15,000 in the humanities and social sciences division of the 17th Annual Keller Center Innovation Forum with their enthralling…
Travel brings theory to life, vibrantly showcasing history, culture, and architecture like no image or text ever could. Students in two Humanities Council courses experienced this over fall break when they visited Rome.
Team-taught by Carolina Mangone (art & archaeology) and Moulie Vidas (religion and Judaic studies), the…
Basile C. Baudez’s Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2021) is this year’s winner of the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. The judges consider the monograph “a landmark work…
Featured on Princeton’s homepage, Professor Rachael DeLue’s course “Science and its Fictions in the Long 19th Century” trains students across disciplines to see images with a critical eye. Students hone their visual literacy by looking at early images purporting to represent science, including John James Audubon's “The Birds of…
Convened in Canberra in November 2022, the “Object Mobilities” workshop brought together scholars from the United States and Australia to speak about objects on the move. Most surprising was the wide range of objects under discussion: from radioactive samples of Persian ceramics in nineteenth-century British collections (in a paper by Mary…
Students from ART 369/EAS 386: “The Arts and Archaeology of the Chinese Court” and ART 493/EAS 493: “Narrative and Visuality in China,” co-taught by the Department of Art & Archaeology’s Cheng-hua Wang with Chao-Hui Jenny Liu and Paize Keulemans from the Department of East Asian Studies, respectively, had the incredible opportunity to…
On November 11th and 12th, The Index of Medieval Art hosted a workshop and conference on the theme of “Looking at Language,” which brought together eight scholars in a wide range of specializations to share their expertise on the multifarious relationships between language and works of medieval art. On the first day, the speakers met with…
Just released by Cambridge University Press, Patricia Blessing’s Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-century Ottoman Empire explores the emergence of Ottoman architecture in the 15th century and its connection with broader geographical contexts. Analyzing how transregional exchange shaped building…
Artist Renee Magnanti gave students of Sam Holzman’s ART 504: “Studies in Greek Architecture” hands-on instruction in the techniques of encaustic painting. Having worked in the medium for over 30 years herself, Magnanti has developed her own recipe and method and has established a singular style of carving in encaustic. Her…
Denise Murrell, Tisch Curator at Large for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, welcomed to the museum students in Bridget Alsdorf’s ART 450: “19th-Century European Art: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism:…
Josiah McElheny, renowned interdisciplinary artist best known for his works combining glass with other materials, recently spoke with students in HUM 434/ART 404: "Counterworlds: Innovation and Rupture in Communities…
Anna Arabindan-Kesson, associate professor in the departments of art & archaeology and African American studies, was awarded the 2022 Dean for Research Innovation Fund for new ideas in the humanities and social sciences in support of her project Art Hx: Visualizing the medical legacies of…
Professor Charlie Barber’s ART 430 seminar on the icon examines devotional panel paintings from literally every angle. The course explores the function, theory, and meaning of the icon and traces its history and impact through to modernism.
On a recent visit to…
What goes into developing an exhibition proposal for an Art Museum? Students in Ronni Baer’s course ART 485: “Making Exhibitions: 17th-Century Flemish Paintings at Princeton,” will spend the fall semester learning every facet, with the Art Museum’s 17th-century…
T. Leslie Shear, Jr., professor of classical archaeology, emeritus, passed away on September 28, 2022 in Princeton, New Jersey after a brief illness. Known as “Bucky,” he spent his life between Princeton and Athens, Greece, where he was born in 1938. Having received his B.A. summa cum laude from Princeton’s Department of Classics and his…
In the spotlight at the upcoming Environmental History Lab Seminar: "HistoGenes: Integrating Genomic, Archaeological, and Historical Perspectives on Eastern Central Europe" on October 5th, the HistoGenes project is…
Intrigue, falsehood, and revelation hover where science and the humanities intersect - and art often bears witness. Professor Rachael DeLue’s graduate seminar Art 562: “Science and Its Fictions in the Long Nineteenth Century” explores this intersection in the…
Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe (Princeton University Press) by Basile Baudez has been shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion. Awarded since 1959, the prize is given annually…
Tina Campt, a noted Black feminist theorist of visual culture and contemporary art, joined the faculty of Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Art’s Program in Visual Arts as the Roger S. Berlind ’52 Professor in the Humanities in a joint appointment on July 1. Campt will be teaching courses in…
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu has been elected Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. From the British Academy Website:
"Each year, the British Academy elects to its fellowship up to 52 outstanding UK-based scholars who have achieved distinction in…
Pamela A. Patton, director of the Index of Medieval Art, has published “What Did Medieval Slavery Look Like? Color, Race, and Unfreedom in Later Medieval Iberia” in Speculum, the flagship journal of the Medieval Academy of America. Patton’s article examines a group of…
Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu has been confirmed as the Slade Professor of Fine Art for 2022/23 in the The Department of History of Art and Centre for Visual Studies at the University of Oxford.
From the University of Oxford website:
"In 1869, the Slade Lectures were…
Princeton home page highlights Art& Archaeology's "Looking Lab: Experiments in Visual Thinking and Thinking About Visuals" led by department lecturer, and recent Ph.D., Lucy Partman.
From the Medieval Studies article titled Smeltin' In the Rain: A daylong demonstration of medieval-style smelting, the workshop showcased an iron-producing technique that began in the Iron Age, persisted through the Classical World and the Middle Ages to Colonial America. It is also a tradition that has been intentionally preserved by smiths in…
Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, Anna Arabindan-Kesson, is a recipient of the 2022–23 Rome Prize, in her capacity as a Terra Foundation Fellow, for her project entitled "A Dream of Italy: Black Geographies and the Grand Tour."
The American Academy in Rome awards the Rome Prize annually via a…
Professor Bridget Alsdorf recently participated in a Q&A about her new book, Gawkers: Art and Audience in Late Nineteenth-Century France (2022). Gawkers explores how artists and writers in late nineteenth-century Paris…
Graduate student Nathan Stobaugh presented Queerer Mirrors: Identification and Disidentification in VALIE EXPORT's Television and Cinema at The Barnes Foundation 26th Annual…
In 1936 and 1949, the Committee for the Excavation of Antioch-on-the-Orontes sent pieces of pottery, called sherds, from the excavation to the Walters Art Gallery (now Museum) in Baltimore. On March 4, 2022, the department transferred the sherds back to Princeton, for use as a teaching collection while the museum is closed. These sherds will…
Professor Basile Baudez participated in a Q&A about his book Inessential Colors.
CAA announced its 2022 Awards for Distinction this week. Two Department of Art & Archaeology alumni earned awards for their publications and one of our faculty contributed an essay to a publication that won a prize.
Kaira Cabañas *07’s…
Art historian, Jonathan Brown *64, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor Emeritus of Fine Arts at NYU Institute of Fine Arts, passed away at home in Princeton on January 17, 2022. He was a pioneer in Spanish and Viceregal Mexican art and served as the director of the NYU Institute of Fine Arts from 1973–1978. His NYU colleagues have
New in Spring 2022, the Art & Archaeology Undergraduate Mentorship Program provides mentorship, academic enrichment, and a dynamic intellectual and social community to junior and senior History of Art and Practice of Art majors and is an exciting complement to the department’s existing offerings for undergraduate-graduate collaboration,…
CNN and the New York Times list Chika Okeke-Agulu's book in the Best Books of 2021.
"AFRICAN ARTISTS: From 1882 to Now, by Phaidon Editors…
Professors Mangone and Yerkes teach "Renaissance Art and Architecture" in person despite the Princeton University Art Museum being closed. Their shaping of the course is highlighted on the Princeton home page…
In this recorded talk, Professor Baudez presents a new book project that takes us to the margins of architectural history and interrogates the way we think about public urban spaces. By looking anew and in detail at the…
Join Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu in a live virtual talk with Sir David Adjaye. Thursday, November 18, 8:00–9:30PM. Sponsored by Taubman College, University of Michigan.
Chika Okeke-Agulu, Professor of African and American Diaspora Art at Princeton University talks to TRT World about France returning 26 Benin Bronzes artifacts to Benin that were stolen during the colonial era.
Art & Archaeology graduate student, Annemarie Iker, was highlighted in an article on the PUL website.
Meet Annemarie Iker, a Ph.D. candidate who completed Princeton’s University…
Lace in Space presents the outcome of an interdisciplinary investigation into new, spatial possibilities for bobbin lace, a centuries-old textile art.
Generally characterized as a textile of many holes, bobbin lace is formed by braiding together continuous threads using…
"Piranesi on the Page" tells the story of how Giovanni Battista Piranesi, the foremost printmaker in 18th-century Europe, made the book the center of his artistic production. The exhibition opened in the Ellen…
Peter Bunnell, eminent scholar of photography and an ‘essential’ figure in the University Art Museum, dies at 83.
We are delighted to announce that Tina Campt will be a visiting professor in Art & Archaeology and the Lewis Center for the Arts during the Spring 2022 semester. Professor Campt is the Owen F. Walker Professor of Humanities and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University and a Research Associate at the Visual Identities in Art and Design…