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Collecting Initiative Expands the Museum's Photography Holdings

Collecting Initiative Expands the Museum's Photography Holdings

Since 2019 the photography department has undertaken an expansive initiative to acquire work by women, whose contributions remain significantly underrepresented across all time periods when compared to our holdings of works made by their male peers.
Recent Acquisition: A Late Formative Maya Figural Sculpture

Recent Acquisition: A Late Formative Maya Figural Sculpture
Lawrence Lek's Virtual Worlds

Lawrence Lek's Virtual Worlds

The very idea of a residency, much like the nature of a campus community, took on a different character in 2020, requiring expansive thinking and new modes of convening.
Winter 2021 | Director's Letter: Collecting Initiatives

Winter 2021 | Director's Letter: Collecting Initiatives

Within the limits of this letter, let me note three multiyear collecting initiatives about which I am particularly excited.
Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum<

Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum has acquired Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Large Red Hat (ca. 1881), an exceptionally insightful portrayal of young girlhood and a masterpiece of Impressionist painting.
Preparing for a New Museum Building: Conservation Assessments Underway

Preparing for a New Museum Building: Conservation Assessments Underway

As we prepare for the construction of the new Art Museum building, scheduled to begin in 2021, considerable planning is underway for the safe removal of all works of art currently on display in the Museum. For works that are...
In the Classroom: Summer Internships Go Virtual

In the Classroom: Summer Internships Go Virtual

This summer the Art Museum was able to quickly pivot in response to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and offer its annual summer internship program as a virtual experience. Eleven interns from locations across the globe, including California, India, New Jersey,...
Art Matters by Deborah Prentice

Art Matters by Deborah Prentice

One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job as Princeton’s provost is overseeing the Princeton University Art Museum. The Museum, with its extraordinary collections, talented staff, and generous supporters, is a continual source of exciting new projects and creative...
The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder

The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder

When does someone who enjoys living with art become a collector? I’m often provoked by this question in the face of people who have filled their homes with art and yet resist being termed collectors, perhaps because they feel it...
Bwa and Wé Masks

Bwa and Wé Masks

Two significant additions have recently been made to the Art Museum’s noteworthy collection of African masks: a Bwa buffalo mask and a Wé mask, from Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast respectively, regions under French colonial rule from the late nineteenth...