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Collaborating with the Princeton University Library on Summer HBCU Programs

Collaborating with the Princeton University Library on Summer HBCU Programs

Last year the Museum and the Library worked together to merge their one-week residential summer programs for students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
Exhibition | Helène Aylon: Undercurrent

Exhibition | Helène Aylon: Undercurrent

The exhibition Helène Aylon: Undercurrent brings together twenty works from across Aylon’s fifty-year career that illuminate the artist’s openness to contradictions.
Six Monumental Artworks Will Debut with the New Building

Six Monumental Artworks Will Debut with the New Building

Princeton’s renowned collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century sculpture and other works of public art will receive a significant boost next year when four large-scale site-specific commissions and two acquisitions of existing works debut with the new building
Making a New Museum Start to Finish: Meet the University Team Overseeing the New Building

Making a New Museum Start to Finish: Meet the University Team Overseeing the New Building

This is the second in a series of articles exploring the complexities of building a new Museum in the heart of the Princeton campus from the perspectives of the architects, contractors, and University staff leading the project.
Exhibition | Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography

Exhibition | Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography

Contemporary photography plays a key role in communicating the timely themes of cultural identity and environmental consciousness. The exhibition Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography delves deeply into these themes, offering a profound exploration of Australia’s...
Fall 2024 | Director’s Letter: The Role of the New Museum in Supporting Humanities

Fall 2024 | Director’s Letter: The Role of the New Museum in Supporting Humanities

Uniting excellence of scholarship with accessibility of presentation and engagement, the Museum is poised to be a gathering point for the scholar and the novice, each learning from the other in ways that are shaped by our future galleries, object...
Art Matters by Rachael Z. DeLue

Art Matters by Rachael Z. DeLue

I am thrilled to be leading the newly minted Princeton Humanities Initiative and excited to think big and capaciously with partners like the Art Museum about what the humanities can accomplish on and off campus in the coming years.
Art Matters by Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames

Art Matters by Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames

As group leaders and teachers try to hush the students, I consider that if the celebrity birthday section of a local newspaper was my foray into the art world, imagine how a visit to an actual art museum has the...
Recent Acquisition John Peto’s Office Board for Christian Faser

Recent Acquisition John Peto’s Office Board for Christian Faser

Office Board for Christian Faser is a superlative early example of John Peto’s so-called rack paintings—images inspired by boards with ribbons tacked into a square to hold notes, letters, and ephemera, represented by the artist in minutely detailed compositions that...
John Wilmerding, Eminent Historian and Collector of American Art

John Wilmerding, Eminent Historian and Collector of American Art

When John Wilmerding came to Princeton in the fall of 1988 as the inaugural Christopher Binyon Sarofim ’86 Professor in American Art, he broke new ground. John stood at the forefront of a small group of art historians, most of...