This fall, as part of a rich campus-wide initiative examining the ties of early University trustees, presidents, faculty, and students to the institution of slavery, the Museum is presenting a broad range of opportunities to explore the ways in which artists represent and engage with American history and wrestle with a legacy that puts Princeton not just at the center of our nation’s struggle for freedom but also at the heart of its long association with slavery.
In Market Front, the artist Kunié Sugiura creates a diptych from stretched canvases, painting an abstract gestural color field on one panel and printing a photograph of the boarded-up facade of a market on the Lower East Side of Manhattan...
A Year with the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of Latin America
Although the Princeton University Art Museum is well known for its extraordinary holdings of art of the ancient Americas, its significant collection of modern and contemporary art from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America has not yet received...
A new series of portraits by the artist Mario Moore, recipient of the 2018–19 Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellowship in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts, celebrates individuals who help to shape the character of a university...
For his site-responsive exhibition Creation Myths at Bainbridge House, the artist Hugh Hayden created four distinct but interconnected spaces—a kitchen, dining room, study, and classroom—that together craft a narrative that is part fiction, part history.