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Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture<

Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture

PRINCETON, NJ - The portrait collection of the New York Chamber of Commerce, assembled over a two-hundred-year period beginning in 1772, captured with aesthetic and symbolic power the giants of American business to become one of the most significant examples...
Two Views: Atget & Friedlander<

Two Views: Atget & Friedlander

PRINCETON, NJ - Headless mannequins, manure carts, telephone poles and side mirrors – these elements of the urban landscape both transcend and connect explorations of modern life by photographers from two distinct generations: Frenchman Eugène Atget (1857-1927) and American Lee...
Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe<

Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

PRINCETON, NJ –The Princeton University Art Museum presents Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe , an exhibition exploring the presence of Africans and their descendants in Europe from the late 1400s to the early 1600s and the roles these...

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