Feasting was an important social and ritual activity in China from the Bronze Age through the imperial period and retains a strong cultural significance to this day. The Eternal Feast illuminates the impact of the culture of feasting on China...

Three galleries in the Art Museum are currently filled with this prodigious output in the exhibition Picturing Place in Japan . Each gallery treats a different theme: Imagined Places, Famous Places, and Sacred Places, with a final coda of photographs...

Picturing Place in Japan focuses on Japanese representations of place from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Three long-standing traditions of place in the visual arts form the core of the exhibition: “imagined places,” “famous places,” and “sacred places,”...

During the summers of 2013 and 2016, Princeton University art history graduate students had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to experience in person the distinguished Gitter-Yelen Collection of Japanese art, also known as the Manyo’an Collection of Art,...

The Art Museum’s collection of Chinese calligraphy may be considered one of the finest outside of Asia. Its formation is primarily the legacy of John B. Elliott and Wen C. Fong, two Princetonians who first met as members of the...

Sound cannot be seen, but it can be heard and felt as vibrations, and it has the ability to move the spirit through music and memory. These experiences allow the knowledge and presence of sound to be visualized in painting,...

This exhibition features a range of contemporary art practices that mine and reinterpret visual and narrative traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Envisioned as a conversation with Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art , an...

Epic Tales from India includes ninety-one paintings from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art—tiny treasures only a few inches in dimension but outsized in their impact. In this exhibition, the main objective is to present the paintings...