Art matters because it has the power to bring people together in ways that words alone cannot achieve.

The painting’s frame is the “setting” that translates a two-dimensional idea into a three-dimensional world.

This summer the Museum partnered with Sharyse Porter, director of the health and wellness nonprofit Dawn of Hope, and Danielle Miller-Winrow, headmaster of Sprout U School of the Arts in Trenton, to pilot an intensive two-week academy for high school...

At the Museum, the preparators—Todd Baldwin, Chris Gorzelnik, Alan Lavery, and Justin Webb—are the people who move, frame, pack, mount, install, and deinstall the precious objects in the collections.

Penelope Georges, associate director of Princeton’s STEM Initiatives, Council on Science and Technology, and Veronica White, curator of teaching and learning, recently reflected on their work together teaching from the Museum’s collections

Understanding art engenders a greater understanding of humanity—it has certainly unlocked the world for me.

While museums continue to be spaces that inspire and provide near spiritual encounters with art, I believe they can also test limits, trigger debate, and coax you out of your comfort zone.

In 2020 and 2021, the removal of more than one hundred large-scale and embedded works from the old building was a particularly complicated task; installing these objects again in the new building will also be a massive undertaking. Since nearly...

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As I grow older, I have found a fulfillment in creating that I did not find as a lawyer; I have also grown to understand that art can be a tool to empower individuals and build community.