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Scenes in the Entertainment District

Scenes in the Entertainment District

T he Museum recently acquired a pair of magnificent Japanese six-panel folding screens that date to the seventeenth century.
Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

In partnership with Princeton University’s P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and in celebration of the Center’s twentieth anniversary, the Museum recently acquired The Loafers by Liu Xiaodong, one of the most prominent social realist...
Celebrating the Career of Cary Y. Liu: Curator, Teacher, Scholar, Mentor

Celebrating the Career of Cary Y. Liu: Curator, Teacher, Scholar, Mentor

Cary Y. Liu, the Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Asian Art, retired from the Museum at the end of February after a distinguished thirty-three-year career.
Recent Acquisitions of South Asian Art Enhance the Collections

Recent Acquisitions of South Asian Art Enhance the Collections

Four recent acquisitions, made between 2010 and 2022, demonstrate one avenue of our collecting focus: portraiture and images that reify status and rank.
When a Manuscript Is More Than a Text: Princeton’s Sumidera Heart Sutra

When a Manuscript Is More Than a Text: Princeton’s Sumidera Heart Sutra

In 2012 Princeton acquired an eighth-century Japanese manuscript of twenty lines. The pithy text, called the Heart Sutra , is said to encapsulate the wisdom of the Buddha through such enigmatic phrases as “form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” But...
Asian American Art at Princeton

Asian American Art at Princeton
The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century

The Eternal Feast: Banqueting in Chinese Art from the 10th to the 14th Century

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...
Recent Acquisition | Perspective Picture of Whale Hunting in Kumano Bay

Recent Acquisition | Perspective Picture of Whale Hunting in Kumano Bay
Recent Acquisition | The Nativity of Christ

Recent Acquisition | The Nativity of Christ
A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

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...