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Art Matters by Izzy Kasdin, Class of 2014, Executive Director, Historical Society of Princeton

Art Matters by Izzy Kasdin, Class of 2014, Executive Director, Historical Society of Princeton

All visitors to museums can experiment with being at once consumers, critics, and creators of museum content, even if just in their private musings. How lucky are we that museums give everyone the access and autonomy to contemplate the physical...
Blackness and Media

Blackness and Media

As early as the nineteenth century, African American cultural producers, critics, writers, consumers, and visual practitioners creatively confronted the vexed, and often exciting, relationship between race and media. This interplay was at the heart of my fall 2018 course “Blackness...
A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

Three galleries in the Art Museum are currently filled with this prodigious output in the exhibition Picturing Place in Japan . Each gallery treats a different theme: Imagined Places, Famous Places, and Sacred Places, with a final coda of photographs...
Art Matters

Art Matters

As I anticipate the opening of Nature’s Nation , I am reminded of the great potential of art to create a shared experience in which our eyes are directed to what is lost to sight or routinely overlooked, challenging our...
Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

Picturing Place in Japan focuses on Japanese representations of place from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Three long-standing traditions of place in the visual arts form the core of the exhibition: “imagined places,” “famous places,” and “sacred places,”...
Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates has been selected as design architect, in collaboration with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, for the new Princeton University Art Museum.
Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

Gillett G. Griffin, curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American art, emeritus, bequeathed more than 3,500 works of art to the Princeton University Art Museum in 2016. This series will explore the highlights of his bequest, beginning with the art of...
Student Research | Aaron Stevens, Class of 2018

Student Research | Aaron Stevens, Class of 2018

New research on the Museum’s holdings of Native American material has expanded over the last two years.
A Fresh Look at the Art of the Ancient Mediterranean

A Fresh Look at the Art of the Ancient Mediterranean

The Art of the Ancient Mediterranean gallery, on the lower level of the Art Museum, has recently been redesigned--the culmination of a multiyear project.
Art Matters

Art Matters

I don’t know where inspiration comes from, but it is essential for scientific discovery, and we will take it wherever we can find it.