Press Releases Archive

Groundbreaking Photography Scholar Peter C. Bunnell Has Died<

Groundbreaking Photography Scholar Peter C. Bunnell Has Died

The curator, professor and museum director was one of the most essential and influential figures in the history of photography

Artist Adama Delphine Fawundu's Transcendent Work to be Featured in Princeton<

Artist Adama Delphine Fawundu's Transcendent Work to be Featured in Princeton

A selection of works by multimedia artist Adama Delphine Fawundu that explore cultural inheritance and collective creation through photography, fabric-making and video will be on view in Gathering Together/ Adama Delphine Fawundu .

Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum<

Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum has acquired Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Large Red Hat (ca. 1881), an exceptionally insightful portrayal of young girlhood and a masterpiece of Impressionist painting.

Design for New Princeton University Art Museum Announced<

Design for New Princeton University Art Museum Announced

The Princeton University Art Museum today revealed the design for its new building embodying flexibility, openness and connectivity to break down barriers to participation and invite entry by all.

Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7<

Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7

Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings is the first exhibition to examine essential but underestimated aspects of the revolutionary French painter’s work: his profound interest in rocks and geological formations, and his use of such structures to shape the compositions...

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography Debuts at the Princeton University Art Museum Feb 22–June 21, 2020 <

Life Magazine and the Power of Photography Debuts at the Princeton University Art Museum Feb 22–June 21, 2020

From its groundbreaking launch issue in 1936 through the conclusion of its weekly run in 1972, Life magazine profoundly shaped how its readers viewed themselves – and the world.

Hugh Hayden Sculpture Installation Examines American History and Identity<

Hugh Hayden Sculpture Installation Examines American History and Identity

Artist Hugh Hayden explores history, identity and the creation of the America we know today through a series of site-responsive installations at Art@Bainbridge, the Princeton University Art Museum’s gallery space in downtown Princeton featuring the work of emerging contemporary artists.

Chris Newth Named Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Chris Newth Named Associate Director for Collections and Exhibitions at the Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum has appointed Chris Newth as associate director for collections and exhibitions.

Life Magazine's Photographic Storytelling Process Explored in Compelling New Exhibition<

Life Magazine's Photographic Storytelling Process Explored in Compelling New Exhibition

Co-organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Life Magazine and the Power of Photography is the first museum exhibition to take an in-depth look at the photographs that made Life so revolutionary, by...

Princeton University Art Museum Adds New Retail Location on Nassau Street in Historic Downtown Princeton<

Princeton University Art Museum Adds New Retail Location on Nassau Street in Historic Downtown Princeton

The Princeton University Art Museum will open a new, second location of its Museum Store on Palmer Square in support of its mission of bringing the visual arts to the local and regional communities.

Museum in the News

The Familiar and Familial in MiKyoung Lee’s Art

Julie Schneider
Hyperallergic, December 19, 2023
Portraits in Unlikely Spaces

Eileen Zimmerman
The New York Times, October 20, 2023
Using a Nigerian Secret Writing System to Expose Social Injustices

Briana Ellis-Gibbs
Hyperallergic, August 29, 2023
Nigerian Artist Victor Ekpuk's New Exhibit Brings Ancient Nsibidi Visual Language to a Modern-day Era

Team EBONY
Ebony, July 19, 2023
Opinion: What a painting can tell us about the fight for environmental justice

Karl Kusserow
Cnn.com, May 16, 2023