Self-portraits and depictions of other artists by nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists from Goya to Warhol explore the concept of the artist as image. Prints and drawings from the Museum’s extensive collection, including works by Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall, and Edvard Munch, and other seldom-seen works like a self-portrait drawing by Paul Cézanne from the Pearlman Collection, illustrate the idea of the artist as a conceptual and historical construct in Western art.

The artistic process of Mannerist Bolognese painter Nosadella (active ca. 1530-1571) is revealed through an in-depth exploration of a single work, the Annunciation. Preparatory drawings, x-radiographs and other works by the artist trace the changes he made from initial composition to finished masterpiece.

The exhibition will be the first of its kind devoted to the topic of Byzantine architectural representation, challenging long-held assumptions in Western art history and providing new ways of understanding Byzantine art and architecture from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century.

Inner Sanctum examines Nassau Hall's venerable Faculty Room as the symbolic center of the University, and explores the history and role of the room and its portraits in both reflecting and shaping Princeton's identity. The exhibition, to be held outside the Museum, in the Faculty Room itself, is accompanied by a publication, symposium, and seminar that focus on the ways in which art and spatial environment reinforce and otherwise influence each other in creating meaning.

Over the last ten years, “land” and “space” have become pressing subjects for artistic investigation, so much so that we can now speak of a new generation of environmental artists. Land, Space, Territory will explore this development and probe the reasons for its appearance at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The exhibition features the work of seven artists and two artist-teams: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Yael Bartana, Andrea Geyer, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Emre Hüner, Matthew Day Jackson, Lucy Raven, and Santiago Sierra. Using media that range from video and photography to digital animation, performance, and assemblage, these artists parse the economic, geopolitical, and phantasmatic conditions of land and space.