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Please join the SFPUL for its third event of the spring semester, a hands-on printing workshop at Pied Oxen Printers with master printer, David Sellers. Attendees will print a small keepsake specimen broadside on an 1848 Hopkinson & Cope “Albion” hand-press, using metal movable types hand-set in advance. Printing will be done on an archival quality paper, dampened for the event, consistent with contemporaneous (c.1848) practice. Each workshop participant will ink and print a predetermined number of copies. Participants will receive copies of their work, after drying, within days of the...

(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton University Library (PUL) will open its newest exhibition in the Ellen and Leonard Milberg Gallery, Firestone Library, on April 6, 2022. "Through a Glass Darkly: Alchemy and the Ripley Scrolls 1400-1700" will show how European alchemists built on Greco-Egyptian, Islamic, and late medieval foundations to create a golden age of alchemy from the 15th century to the time of Sir Isaac Newton. Rich in color and symbolism, the exhibition will feature two alchemical “Ripley Scrolls,” named after the English alchemist George Ripley, which rank among the most s...

We talked to historian of science Michael Gordin, who is teaches “The Einstein Era” at Princeton. The course covers the famous scientist's achievements and his involvement with the monumental issues of his day.

(RNS) — The exhibit was intended to showcase the little-known contributions of Jewish American artists in the period after the Civil War. The university, in the midst of reassessing its legacy, balked.

We drop in on the fall course 'Renaissance Art and Architecture' and see how the Princeton University Art Museum's world-class collections are being used for teaching while the museum's new building is under construction.