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Kongo across the Waters | Press Release<

Kongo across the Waters | Press Release

On view at the Princeton University Art Museum from Oct. 25, 2014 to January 25, 2015, Kongo across the Waters will be the single most important project ever presented at Princeton University that addresses the issues of the slave trade...

Princeton University Art Museum Featured in Exhibition of Student Art and Writing Presented by the Assoc. of Art Museum Directors and the US Dept. of Education in Washington, DC<

Princeton University Art Museum Featured in Exhibition of Student Art and Writing Presented by the Assoc. of Art Museum Directors and the US Dept. of Education in Washington, DC

The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), in partnership with the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C., is currently hosting Museums: pARTners in Learning. This is their second collaboration to exhibit student art and creative writing resulting from...

CHIGUSA AND THE ART OF TEA IN JAPAN | Legendary 700-year-old tea jar “Chigusa” featured in the U.S. for the first time<

CHIGUSA AND THE ART OF TEA IN JAPAN | Legendary 700-year-old tea jar “Chigusa” featured in the U.S. for the first time

The story of Chigusa is the remarkable tale of an ordinary Chinese storage jar rising, over the course of several centuries and generations of connoisseurs, to become one of the most revered objects of Japan’s chanoyu , or art of...

Exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum through Fall 2014<

Exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum through Fall 2014

KONGO ACROSS THE WATERS | First exhibition in America to deeply explore the legacy of Kongo culture<

KONGO ACROSS THE WATERS | First exhibition in America to deeply explore the legacy of Kongo culture

Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds | First Retrospective of Drawings by Pioneering Modernist<

Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds | First Retrospective of Drawings by Pioneering Modernist

PRINCETON, NJ—Although most celebrated for her forceful and influential sculptures, Lee Bontecou has employed drawing as a distinct and essential part of her creative practice since the dawn of her 50-year career. She has constantly forged a capacious and profoundly...

Rothko to Richter | The Hand of the Artist in Abstract Painting 1950-1990 is Addressed in Princeton<

Rothko to Richter | The Hand of the Artist in Abstract Painting 1950-1990 is Addressed in Princeton

PRINCETON, NJ – A remarkable gathering of paintings by some of the most important artists of the postwar era will provide a window into a moment of extraordinary creative ferment, when the very nature of abstract painting was being hotly...

Annual Gala to Benefit the Princeton University Art Museum Feb. 1, 2014<

Annual Gala to Benefit the Princeton University Art Museum Feb. 1, 2014

PRINCETON, NJ –Drawing inspiration from the Italian Baroque period, known for its drama, exuberance and passion for the arts—and from the upcoming exhibition of Italian master drawings from the Museum’s renowned collection—the Princeton University Art Museum will present its annual...

Installation of Outdoor Sculpture by Legendary American Artist Alexander Calder<

Installation of Outdoor Sculpture by Legendary American Artist Alexander Calder

PRINCETON, NJ –Two landmark stabiles— Man and The Kite That Never Flew , both from 1967 and made of painted steel—will be on view adjacent to the Princeton University Art Museum’s entrance from Jan. 18 through Oct. 26, 2014. Read more ...

Princeton University Art Museum Presents Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print Feb. 8 through June 8, 2014<

Princeton University Art Museum Presents Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print Feb. 8 through June 8, 2014

PRINCETON, NJ – Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art includes twenty-six of Munch’s signature prints. read more

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