The very idea of a residency, much like the nature of a campus community, took on a different character in 2020, requiring expansive thinking and new modes of convening.

Within the limits of this letter, let me note three multiyear collecting initiatives about which I am particularly excited.

As we prepare for the construction of the new Art Museum building, scheduled to begin in 2021, considerable planning is underway for the safe removal of all works of art currently on display in the Museum. For works that are...

This summer the Art Museum was able to quickly pivot in response to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and offer its annual summer internship program as a virtual experience. Eleven interns from locations across the globe, including California, India, New Jersey,...

One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job as Princeton’s provost is overseeing the Princeton University Art Museum. The Museum, with its extraordinary collections, talented staff, and generous supporters, is a continual source of exciting new projects and creative...

When does someone who enjoys living with art become a collector? I’m often provoked by this question in the face of people who have filled their homes with art and yet resist being termed collectors, perhaps because they feel it...

Two significant additions have recently been made to the Art Museum’s noteworthy collection of African masks: a Bwa buffalo mask and a Wé mask, from Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast respectively, regions under French colonial rule from the late nineteenth...

With its groundbreaking stock exchange and merchant ships plying the seas, the northern Netherlands became Europe’s center of international trade, and many of its people enjoyed unprecedented prosperity. As the middle classes grew and became wealthier, they decorated their homes...