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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.
Art, Literature, and Illness

Art, Literature, and Illness

How do artists use varying stylistic devices to narrate the experiences of illness and caregiving? When we gaze at representations of the sick, are we empathetic to the pain of others or fearful of death? How can the chronology of...
Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

During the summers of 2013 and 2016, Princeton University art history graduate students had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to experience in person the distinguished Gitter-Yelen Collection of Japanese art, also known as the Manyo’an Collection of Art,...
Exhibition | Picturing Protest

Exhibition | Picturing Protest

Fifty years after the watershed events of 1968, the exhibition Picturing Protest examines the visual framing of collective action between 1960 and 1970 around the country and on Princeton’s campus.
Researching the Arts of Africa

Researching the Arts of Africa

Africa is a continent so vibrant that it cannot have a single “art,” nor a single art history, but arts, with an emphatic plural and their many histories. The collection of African arts at the Princeton University Art Museum presents...
Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

This spring, the Museum seeks to broaden the discussion by bringing together works by African and European artists that engage viewers in intercultural conversations beyond the Africa-Europe binary of discovery, influence, or “Otherness.” Installed throughout the Museum’s galleries of European...
On view | Photography and Belonging

On view | Photography and Belonging

This spring a selection of works from the Museum’s collections investigates the ways in which experiences of belonging and alienation have been both a subject and an effect of photography. Photographers have long sought to depict human relationships and social...
Landscapes Behind Cézanne

Landscapes Behind Cézanne

It is commonly understood that when you compare very alike things, you notice their differences. When comparing unlike things, it can take a little longer to notice their similarities—but eventually I became aware that, notwithstanding the radicalism of Cézanne’s approach,...
In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

In their quest to create a new art suited to new times, many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists rejected the official hierarchies of the French Academy, which privileged epic narratives of history, mythology, and religion, choosing instead to paint...