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The Modern Museum: Between Preservation and Action | Director's Letter Winter 2019

The Modern Museum: Between Preservation and Action | Director's Letter Winter 2019

James Steward discusses ways in which the modern museum’s origins in the European Enlightenment continue to inform the core missions and strategies of most museums today, and the potential for museums to act as change agents that might foster critical...
Princeton University Art Museum Reveals Time Capsule of 1970 in Major Print Series by Robert Rauschenberg<

Princeton University Art Museum Reveals Time Capsule of 1970 in Major Print Series by Robert Rauschenberg

In a burst of activity in early 1970, groundbreaking American artist Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) collaged newspaper clippings of the day, photographed the collages and ultimately silkscreened them to create three seminal print series. One of these portfolios of 18 large-scale...
Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Gift and Grant from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation<

Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Gift and Grant from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Ten prints, in a variety of media, and several related trial proofs by distinguished American abstract artist Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011) will be donated to the Princeton University Art Museum by the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
Family Portraits of Thomas Gainsborough Reveal Personal Side of Canonical British Painter<

Family Portraits of Thomas Gainsborough Reveal Personal Side of Canonical British Painter

For the first time, 10 of the surviving portraits carried out by British master Thomas Gainsborough of his daughters, augmented by approximately 40 additional family images by the artist, will be on view in a historic gathering.
Princeton University Art Museum part of collaboration between nation's art museums and local schools<

Princeton University Art Museum part of collaboration between nation's art museums and local schools

A group of third graders from the Trenton Public School District in Trenton, New Jersey, are represented in an exhibition in our nation’s capital of works of art by children from across the country. The four New Jersey students are...
Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Convened in conjunction with the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment , this two-day symposium extends the exhibition’s focus and approach to the visual cultures of diverse times and places. Seventeen international speakers offer compelling ecocritical analysis of a...
Princeton University Art Museum Announces Enhanced Online Access to Asian Art Collection<

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Enhanced Online Access to Asian Art Collection

A dynamic new look at the world-renowned Asian art collection at the Princeton University Art Museum has been made possible through a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Object Highlight | The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man," 1979–2009

Object Highlight | The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man," 1979–2009

The Museum recently acquired the work The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man,” 1979–2009 , by photographer Susan Meiselas
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...
Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Postcommodity’s time at the Museum as the 2017 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artists-in-Residence resulted in a sound art performance and the acquisition of N13: 31°20'50.88"N; 109°29'47.62"W , one of twenty-six large-scale balloons from their 2015 land art...

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The Modern Museum: Between Preservation and Action | Director's Letter Winter 2019

Princeton University Art Museum Reveals Time Capsule of 1970 in Major Print Series by Robert Rauschenberg

Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Gift and Grant from Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

Family Portraits of Thomas Gainsborough Reveal Personal Side of Canonical British Painter

Princeton University Art Museum part of collaboration between nation's art museums and local schools

Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Enhanced Online Access to Asian Art Collection

Object Highlight | The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man," 1979–2009

Art Matters

Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente