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The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The American Arts and Crafts movement emerged full force in the years before and after 1900, at a time when diametrically opposed views of the future clashed. Many Americans believed in the power of the machine, the growth of capitalism,...
2016 Reunions Programming

2016 Reunions Programming

Welcome back, Princeton Tigers! Don't miss special Reunions programming organized by the Art Museum on May 26 and 27 and extended hours through May 30.
The City Lost & Found Wins SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award

The City Lost & Found Wins SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award

The Society of Architectural Historians has awarded the 2016 Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award to Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, and Greg Foster-Rice for The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980.
Now on View: Recently Acquired Early Work by Elizabeth Catlett

Now on View: Recently Acquired Early Work by Elizabeth Catlett

The Museum has acquired an important early work by the renowned African American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), the fruit of a collaboration with Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology that continues to strengthen Princeton’s art collections.
Objects of Andean Art

Objects of Andean Art

Ancient Andean art can be challenging to teach to undergraduates. In order to explore the art these civilizations produced, students first have to understand the complex cultural contexts.
Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The exhibition includes more than fifty examples of their ceramics, as well as an equally large array of embroidered table runners and wall hangings, chased brass and silver metal wares, jewelry.
Gifts from the Tang Center

Gifts from the Tang Center

This spring will mark the Tang Center’s fifteenth anniversary, and to celebrate this occasion the installation Gifts from the Tang Center is on view in the Asian galleries.
By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

Exhibition features some of the earliest novels, poems, religious works, paintings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and scientific treatises produced by Jews in the United States.
Disaster and Disruption

Disaster and Disruption

The first gallery visitors discover as they enter the Museum, Marquand Mather Court, gets a new face this season in response to an extraordinary work of art. Takashi Murakami has emerged in the past fifteen years as one of the...
The British Passion for Landscape

The British Passion for Landscape

Currently on view in Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape are scenes of the agricultural, pastoral, and wild regions of the British Isles together with views of the industrial and mining operations that launched the...