Exploring works of Ionic architecture from different periods in Ionia, the Cyclades, Athens, and the Northern Aegean, Professor Samuel Holzman's new book "Retrospective Columns" shows that their builders established continuity while reinforcing community identities and architectural tradition.

New Release! Edited by Nathan Arrington, Domna Terzopoulou, Marina Tasaklaki, and Thomas F. Tartaron, "The Molyvoti, Thrace, Archaeological Project 1: Landscape, Architecture, and Material Culture" (Hesperia Suppl. 54), published by the ASCSA.
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Congratulations Leigh Anne Lieberman *18, Digital Project Specialist in A&A’s Visual Resources, on her NEH grant for “Teaching Ancient in a Digital Age: Emerging Methods and Literacies in the Ancient Mediterranean Classroom," with co-director Christine Johnston (Western Washington University)!

Curated by graduate student Michael Quituisaca, “Extract / Abstract” showcases Léni Paquet-Morante's evocative, dreamlike landscapes, which fuse process-driven imagery, abstraction, and color.

On view at Princeton's Art@Bainbridge through Nov. 9!

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We're pleased to announce that Fatima Quraishi, who specializes in the art and architecture of South Asia, will join the A&A faculty as Assistant Professor of Art & Archaeology on September 1, 2025.

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William Austin *24 has accepted a position as Curatorial Assistant at the Getty Villa in Santa Monica, CA.

Congratulations Will!!

A&A graduate student Molly Eckel has been appointed the Shackelford Family Assistant Curator of American Art at the Columbus Museum of Art.

Congratulations, Molly!

A wonderful article about A&A graduate alumnus Dr. Jay Xu *08

We’re pleased to announce that John Sigmier, archaeologist and architectural historian of the Roman world, will be joining the faculty in the Department of Art & Archaeology as Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology on September 1, 2025!

Congratulations to Justin Willson *21, who has accepted the position of Assistant Professor of the Art of the Medieval Worlds in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University!

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann publishes new book on Rudolph II

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Congratulations Anna Arabindan-Kessan—named GRADFutures Faculty Fellow in Professional Development Innovation! She'll present the workshop "How We Talk About Our Work,” at the GradFUTURES Forum workshop with Professor Sophie Gee on Mar. 26.
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Congratulations to Professor Monica Bravo, whom the College Art Association (CAA) has awarded the Arthur Kingsley Porter Prize for “Mineral Analogs: Carleton Watkins’s Photographs and the Gold Standard,” which appeared in The Art Bulletin, Fall 2024.

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Hal Foster's "Fail Better: Reckonings with Artists and Critics" is out now!

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“Serious art anticipates the future as much as it reflects the present...serious art history is driven by the present as much as it is informed by the past.” —Hal Foster

Congratulations to Professor Basile Baudez, who has been awarded the Sophie and L. Edward Cotsen Faculty Fellowship for 2025-2028 in recognition of his distinguished career in teaching and scholarship at Princeton.

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