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2019 Summer Interns

2019 Summer Interns

Meet the Museum's 2019 Summer Interns! This year's class includes students representing hometowns ranging from Beijing to Brasilia to Basking Ridge. The interns are assigned to departments across the Museum, where they work alongside staff on projects advancing our core...
Recent Acquisition | Pair of Earrings with Bull’s Heads

Recent Acquisition | Pair of Earrings with Bull’s Heads

The Museum looks for opportunities to improve its collection of ancient Greek, Roman, and Etruscan jewelry, recently adding a pair of Hellenistic gold earrings from the third century BC.
Recent Acquisition | Our Home

Recent Acquisition | Our Home

The Museum has acquired Our Home , a relief carving by First Nations artist Rande Cook. Cook combines the tradition of graphic aesthetics of his home community, the Kwakwaka’wakw, inhabitants of the coastal areas of northeastern Vancouver Island and mainland...
Exhibition of Globe-spanning Art Celebrates the Collecting Eye of Curator and Scholar Gillett Griffin<

Exhibition of Globe-spanning Art Celebrates the Collecting Eye of Curator and Scholar Gillett Griffin

Gillett G. Griffin (1928-2016) was not only a respected curator, scholar and collector but also a beloved teacher at Princeton University, where he taught and curated for 52 years. Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection celebrates Griffin’s eclectic...
Farewell to Lisa Arcomano, Manager of Campus Collections

Farewell to Lisa Arcomano, Manager of Campus Collections

Lisa Arcomano, the University's first Manager of Campus Collections, retired on June 28, 2019
Exhibition | Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity

Exhibition | Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity

One of the most influential American artists to emerge during the mid-twentieth century, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) is best known for her innovative abstract paintings in which she poured washes of color over great expanses of raw canvas.
Rare Group of Early Chinese Paintings of Feasts to be Featured in an Exhibition this Fall<

Rare Group of Early Chinese Paintings of Feasts to be Featured in an Exhibition this Fall

The art of feasting will bring to life a remarkable epoch of cultural flourishing, economic development and foreign exchange in Chinese history in a groundbreaking exhibition premiering this fall.
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...
Activating the Photography Archives

Activating the Photography Archives

In the past few years, the Princeton University Art Museum has seen a surge in activity surrounding its extensive collections of archival materials related to the photographers Clarence H. White and Minor White, which were brought to the Museum through...
Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

The Art Museum has recently acquired an extraordinary group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934–2015). The nearly five thousand works, which come to the Museum from Graves’s estate, span the entire range of his...