Emma Mohrmann, a junior in the A&A Practice of Art track, recently participated in visual artist Kyoko Ibe’s paper-making workshop, hosted by Visual Arts Lecturer Daniel Heyman at 185 Nassau. Having worked in paper previously, Mohrmann was inspired to…
Co-taught by A&A Professors Bridget Alsdorf and Irene Small, ART 565: “Seminar in Modernist Art and Theory: Before and After Gender” revisits major approaches to feminist art history from the nineteenth century to the present, while considering how queer, trans, masculinity, and decolonial studies have transformed art-historical analysis…
Professor Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s ART 209 “Between Renaissance and Revolution: Baroque Art in Europe” surveys changes in European art from the end of the Renaissance until the Age of Revolution c. 1800. A highlight of the course is visiting Princeton University Art Museum’s collection to examine works firsthand. “Certainly, my…
ART 343 “Topics in 19th-Century Art: Artists and Their Subjects” explores the various representations of the relationship between artist and subject in the period between the French Revolution and the turn of the nineteenth century. Throughout the semester, lecturer Carmen Rosenberg-Miller *22, whose own work centers around philosophies of…
ART 228 “Art and Power in the Middle Ages” looks at politics and religion reflected in the art of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa between 300 and 1200 C.E., exploring the art of great courts as well as migratory societies and of religions including Catholicism, Orthodoxy, Judaism, and Islam. Fundamental to the understanding…
Need Resources For Your Next Paper? Visit the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library!
In this post, I share my experience of requesting resources from Princeton’s Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library for a research paper in ART102/ARC102: An Introduction to the History of Architecture. I took the Spring 2022 iteration of…
I enrolled at Stockton University as a Nursing major. The degree required a number of humanities courses, one of which was "The Worlds of Homer," taught by Princeton alum Professor David Roessel *97. He approached me and asked if I would perform a piece he translated, the only catch was that the performances would be in Cyprus and Greece,…
In her new role as Curator of V&A East, Madeleine Haddon *21 has the riveting and crucial task of establishing the museum of the future. Scheduled to open in spring 2025 in East London, V&A East is the new campus of the acclaimed Victoria & Albert Museum. The new museum aims to engage the transformative power of art and design to…
His B.A. in art & archaeology has paved a glamorous career path for Mark Guiducci ’10, who is, today, the Creative Editorial Director at Vogue. Guiducci draws a direct line between his current position and its roots in A&A: “My thesis advisor Bridget Alsdorf encouraged us to analyze clothes as much as any other part…
For some time now, I have been engaging with the sense-scapes of art objects from the Islamic Middle East, trying to understand them within their architectural context. Despite ongoing skepticism, the study of the sensorium of art objects has definitely become a hot topic within Islamic art—and within this sensorial conundrum, what really…
Louisa Ferguson ’12, Head of Global Marketing Experience at Spotify, exemplifies the limitless opportunities a degree in art & archaeology provides. She now holds a dream job, merging her love of music and music culture with the captivating task of building new digital experiences for Spotify users.
Ferguson knew when she…
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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…
I took “Archaeology in the Field” this past summer and I highly recommend it to anyone who is curious about archaeology and looking to experience something new.
The excavation part of the course is a rare chance to work on an actual archaeological project with professionals. If you have any interest in pursuing a career in archaeology…
As part of the Art & Archaeology Undergraduate Mentoring Program, A&A juniors Drew Pugliese, Cary Moore, and Lucy Gutman, senior Benjy Jude, and graduate student Samuel Shapiro traveled to New York to visit Chelsea Galleries and Tom Tuttle’s ’88 private collection.
Regarding Violence, an exhibition of recent works by…
The first day of Reading Period saw the inaugural Majors’ Colloquium in A&A: the junior and senior cohorts in History of Art and Practice of Art convened for work-in-progress presentations and discussion about their independent projects.
Thanks to all the students for their generous engagement with one another’s work, and best…
From the earliest stages of conference planning, the question of format—whether the event would be in person, entirely on Zoom, or hybrid—was at the forefront of our minds. Although we had come to appreciate the wide access and flexible format offered by an online venue—and even as we feared a potential third winter of virus recrudescence…
Socrates was a punk! In this Wintersession 2023 workshop, we’ll examine the sound, style, and theories behind the punk rock genre, from a philosophical perspective. Beginning with the “proto-punk” bands of the mid-1970s and moving chronologically into contemporary “post-punk” genres, such as emo and pop-punk, philosophical themes will be…
In this Wintersession 2023 workshop, each participant will receive a mosaic kit to complete and take home while Katy Knortz, art & archaeology graduate student, teaches them about the history of mosaics in antiquity. Chief Conservator at the Princeton…
Enjoy food, art, and great conversation with our students in their studios on Tuesday, November 15th from 5:30–7:00 pm at 185 Nassau Street, 4th floor.
“For me, most exciting are the interactions of Hellenistic visual cultures we see in extraordinary recent finds from Macedonia and Afghanistan, at opposite ends of the Hellenistic world.” – Professor Bert Smith
The conquest of Asia from Anatolia to Afghanistan by Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great) brought far…
“In 2022, armed with our smartphones and the platforms of social media, we all have the power to play a role in shaping the visual culture of the contemporary moment. This course considers the interwar period, an era in which such power and access weren’t always given and in which women began to emerge in large numbers as professional…
Salve! As a Classics major, I was accustomed to hearing the Latin word for “Hello!” at the start of a language class or as a greeting on the first day of the Princeton Certamen. You can imagine my bewilderment, then, when an Italian cashier welcomed me to his shop with a fluent Salve! on the second day of our class trip to…
“The course is intended as a space for an interdisciplinary consideration of how we might use the idea of frequency as an analytic framework across multiple fields of study. Collaborative thinking is a crucial part of both my scholarship and my writing practice so it’s something I am eager to cultivate among grad students. The collaborative…
“I’m most looking forward to looking at a whole range of artworks I've never studied before, together with students. Princeton has truly amazing prints, drawings, and books that we can explore together.” – Professor Carolyn Yerkes
Siegecraft was an art more complex than painting, more powerful than sculpture, and more monumental…
Graduate student Nathan Stobaugh presented Queerer Mirrors: Identification and Disidentification in VALIE EXPORT's Television and Cinema at The Barnes Foundation 26th Annual…
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…