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Exhibition | States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing

Exhibition | States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing

States of Health: Visualizing Illness and Healing draws on the Princeton University Art Museum’s collections, as well as the holdings of Firestone Library, to address and frame questions of illness, suffering, care, and healing as expressed in the global visual...
Public Art by Artist, Designer, and Environmentalist Maya Lin Debuts at Princeton University in Fall 2019<

Public Art by Artist, Designer, and Environmentalist Maya Lin Debuts at Princeton University in Fall 2019

Two major new commissions by renowned artist Maya Lin will be dedicated this fall on the grounds of the Lewis Center for the Arts complex at Princeton University. The two works, The Princeton Line, an undulating sculpted line of molded...
Art Matters by Abbie Vandivere, Class of 2001

Art Matters by Abbie Vandivere, Class of 2001

I graduated in 2001 knowing that I wanted to pursue conservation, but first I wanted to gain experience working in a museum. I worked in different areas of the Art Museum: Prints and Drawings, the Museum Store, preparation and art...
Increasing Equity in Art Museums

Increasing Equity in Art Museums

This summer the Art Museum was pleased to serve as an externship site for the Newark Museum’s internship program formed through the Diversifying Art Museums Leadership Initiative (DAMLI). The aim of the DAMLI, funded by the Ford Foundation and the...
State-of-the-Art Technology

State-of-the-Art Technology

As part of the Museum’s continuing efforts to study and preserve works of art, Conservator Bart Devolder recently acquired two new tools for the examination and documentation of surfaces under high magnification. We look forward to sharing future discoveries...
Art Matters by Louise S. Sams, Class of 1979

Art Matters by Louise S. Sams, Class of 1979

I have found art museums to be welcoming places, a home away from home, a quiet sanctuary of introspection and learning, albeit shared with others. Regardless of the circumstances, I have found comfort and stimulation in museums and a kinship...
Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

This summer the Art Museum celebrates the life and career of one of its most renowned curators in Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection . The exhibition will feature a group of artworks and artifacts from among the...
Reaching Broad Audiences through Miracles on the Border

Reaching Broad Audiences through Miracles on the Border

Beyond school visits, the gallery’s bilingualism has been an impetus to reach new audiences and expand the Museum’s program offerings.
In the Classroom | Minoritarian Aesthetics: Theory, Art, and Literature

In the Classroom | Minoritarian Aesthetics: Theory, Art, and Literature

This spring the course “Minoritarian Aesthetics” introduces graduate students to theories and critiques that emphasize the aesthetic or formal dimensions of art, literature, and film made by minorities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

There is an oft-quoted saying that “stories have the power to take you places”—to worlds unseen and ages long past. This is particularly true in a museum, where objects tell tales of culture and creation. As an Art Museum student...