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A group of 6 people holds and examines a large drawing, surrounded by fdrawings laying ont he floor around them.
International Team Brings Princeton’s Remarkable Mount Athos Collections to Light
May 20, 2025
Portrait of Claire Barbillon in front of a book shelf.
A&A Welcomes Director of the École du Louvre Claire Barbillon
May 19, 2025
Portrait fo Cheng-hua Wang
Professor Cheng-hua Wang Named Director of the P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art
May 14, 2025
Two women examine large works that cover a wall.
Rachel Saunders and ART 526 Visit Harvard Art Museums
May 8, 2025
A&A Faculty Awarded 250th Anniversary Fund for Innovation in Undergraduate Education
May 7, 2025
Four people examine a wooden printing block with magnifying glasses.
2025 Robert Janson-La Palme *76 Visiting Professor Susan Dackerman Reexamines the History of Print
May 7, 2025
A man stands with arms spread presenting to a group seated at a long table.
Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project Team Convenes in Princeton
May 2, 2025
Portrait of Will Pedrick
American Academy in Rome Honors A&A Graduate Student William Pedrick with 2025–2026 Rome Prize
April 23, 2025
A group of people poses in front of a screen.
Workshop Situates Women in the Chinese Calligraphy Practice— and A&A in its Scholarship
April 23, 2025
A woman speaks expressively seated at a table with four other people.
The GradFUTURES Forum Empowers Graduate Students in the Humanities
April 18, 2025
Photograph of a woman holding up a sign and a flag.
A&A Alumni among 2025 Guggenheim Fellows
April 17, 2025
A man laughs and clasps his hands beside a white schulpture of a dog.
In the News: Jay Xu *08, Director and CEO of San Francisco's Asian Art Museum, Retires after 17 Years
April 11, 2025
A room full of people watch two men seated at a desk with a woman on a screen behind them.
Scholars, Artists, and Curators Explore Collective Fantasy
April 10, 2025
A man stands outside in front of a door to a tower
John Sigmier Joins A&A as Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology
April 4, 2025
Two views of the inside of a gallery with colorful walls and a variety of framed works and sculpture.
Georgie Sánchez Curates "ficciones patógenas" at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art
April 1, 2025
Five people pose for a photo.
Christina Papageorgopoulou on New Methods for Investigating the Human Past
March 31, 2025
A tree with orange leaves partially obstructs a grey building.
Princeton University Art Museum Announces Opening Date and Inaugural Exhibitions for New Building
March 31, 2025
An ancient mosaic shows two people in muted brown shades.
Princeton University Art Museum to open 10/31/25. The mosaics are reinstalled and waiting.
March 31, 2025

Student Focus

A sketched white figured emerges through a door to the interior of a room.
As Filmmaker Paige Morton ’25 Closes the Door to her Childhood, She Crosses a New Threshold
May 20, 2025
A wooman stands in frotn of a stack of 4 monitors and a wall of color photos.
Kate Stewart '25 Curates Intangible Treasures in her Senior Exhibition "Memorabilia"
May 13, 2025
A woman stansd beside a painting of two nude men seated.
Reading Body Parts in “ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRSTUVWXYZ” by Dana Corbo ’25
May 1, 2025
Chains are visible at various depths in a large room with white walls and a black floor.
"Metalogue" by Sophie Main ’25: a Conversation in Chains
April 9, 2025
A woman stands in front of a paper sculpture hanging from the ceiling.
"Immortality," Audrey Zhang’s ’25 Good Wish for the Future
March 28, 2025
A woman holds a book open to a page with illustrations.
Laura Ann Trimble Elbogen ‘07 Offers Advice on Becoming an Artist Entrepreneur
March 20, 2025
A woman attaches a colorful portrait of a man to a white wall.
2025 Visual Arts Senior Exhibition Schedule
Feb. 6, 2025
Drew Pugliese '24 Interviews Professor Irene Small for November Magazine
Feb. 3, 2025
A woman sits on a stool in a gallery surrounded by colorful abstract art
Fall 2024 Open Studios
Nov. 22, 2024
Three people pose in front of a screen
Graduate Students Organize Conference "Bandung to Berlin: Art, Decolonization, and the Cold War"
Nov. 7, 2024
A woman wearing a yellow robe puts a clip in her hair looking into a mirror
My Internship at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing
Nov. 4, 2024
Metail plaque with faint lettering
Charlotte Root ’22 and A&A Team Coauthor Article on Roman British Epigraphy
Oct. 3, 2024
Zoe Wang leans a pillar in a colonade
Visiting Student Zi (Zoe) Wang On Medieval Art History Scholarship in China and Princeton
Oct. 3, 2024
A man reads at a microphone in front of an audience
Graduate Student Georgie Sánchez Contributes to David Wojnarowicz Memorial Celebration
Sept. 24, 2024
Portrait of Charmaine Branch
Charmaine Branch researches teaching with difficult visual materials in GradFutures fellowship
Sept. 9, 2024
Four people work at a table with laptops
Megan Coates Studies Digital Humanities and Modern Greek at the Princeton Athens Center
Aug. 30, 2024

Fieldwork

Christopher Wilson mans the total station, peering intently in profile
Christopher Wilson ’21: From A&A to Archaeology for Environmental Projects
 A group of people surround a glass display case in which is a colorful painted object depicting figures over many folds.
Visiting "Ethiopia at the Crossroads"
Masha Slautina stands in front of and above a lake with fall foliage surrounding it
Touring Japan's Autumnal Art Scene
Group of museum-goers poses on the museum steps
Africa and Byzantium Lecture and Exhibition
Paige Walworth decorates her vessel
Understanding Ancient Pottery by Reading, Seeing, and Recreating
Smith-Sangster is crouched in a hole in the hard-packed earth
Dispatches from the Field: Emily Smith-Sangster’s Excavation of a New [Ancient] Cemetery in Abydos
Ramon Espinoza holding a shovel in the woods
Archaeology Program Student and Veteran Ramon Espinoza Excavates WWII Crash Site in Germany
Students excavating
Excavations at Molyvoti in Northern Greece
Class Visits Smithson's Spiral Jetty
“Terrains of Knowledge” Class Visits Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
Art 356 Studies Gardens in Kyoto
Art 356 Studies Gardens in Kyoto
Team Studies Ancient Mining Sites at Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt
Team Studies Ancient Mining Sites at Wadi el-Hudi, Egypt
Graduate students studying casts of Trajan's column
Art 513 Studies Historiated Columns in Rome

Course Highlights

A woman lectures to a group beside a stone pillar with a city and Greek flag visible behind them.
Engineering and Humanities "Mashup" HUM 417, Cotaught by Professors Holzman and Glišić, is Featured on Princeton's Homepage
A pair of hands use a ruler and pencil to draw a pottery fragment
Students in ART 407 Explore Archaeology through Drawing
A student points to a scene on a tapestry
ART 485 Examines Indigenous Works in Special Collections
A chef stands on oen side of a metal tables with students lined up on the other
Applying digital methods to ancient history
A student examines artifacts with a magnifying glass
Venturing through ancient Antioch—with an all-access pass
Alanna Radlo-Dzur takes in a large map on beige textile
Alanna Radlo-Dzur reframes Nahua women and Indigenous scholarship
Professor Watsky points to a detail in a work as students look on
In ART 425, while students gain expertise in Japanese prints, the Princeton University Art Museum gains six works!
Pale green-grey typewriter with typed words "do you know?"
Language to be Looked At
Two students lie supine in the foreground with a screen in the background
The Vikings—as they Lived, Died, and Feasted
Paige Walworth decorates her vessel
Understanding Ancient Pottery by Reading, Seeing, and Recreating
Students crowd around a small album
Photography and the Making of the Modern World
Zackery Drucker speaks with students seated a table with screen in background
Examining the Feminist Critique with Artist and Trans Woman Zackary Drucker
The chapel looms behind a group of students
Course Highlight: ART 341/ARC 341 “Neo Architectures: Architecture and its past, from the Renaissance to Postmodernism”
Professor Holzman hands architectural model to students for a closer look
Course Highlight: ART 401: “Introduction to Archaeology”
Students huddle over a map on a table
Course Highlight: ART 447: Siegecraft: Architecture, Warfare, and Media

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