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Sacred Caves of the Silk Road

Sacred Caves of the Silk Road

Located at the eastern terminus of the Silk Road, along a cliff face on the outskirts of the city of Dunhuang in China’s far western Gansu Province, the sacred caves of Dunhuang present a vivid picture of the convergence of...
Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills

Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills

Taking inspiration from Blake’s poem for its title, the exhibition Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape examines the tensions between nature and culture, country and city, that would play a decisive role in British art...
Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations

Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations

For decades, the sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard has explored organic and inorganic materials, the familiar and the unfamiliar. The works by von Rydingsvard on view illustrate a concern for the aesthetic potential and emotional power of materials that is shared...
Fitz Henry Lane’s Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor

Fitz Henry Lane’s Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor

A recent acquisition, Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor by Fitz Henry Lane, is an archetype of Luminism, a style characterized by a preoccupation with light and atmosphere that flourished among a group of American painters between 1850 and 1875.
Homeschool Week | Jan. 26-29, 2016

Homeschool Week | Jan. 26-29, 2016

Self-guided, interactive tours and related art projects are offered daily. Each day will focus on a different culture or time period. Homeschool students ages 6 through 12 and their families are invited to discover, discuss, and create!
Extended Holiday Hours - Cezanne

Extended Holiday Hours - Cezanne

The Art Museum is offering extended hours during the final weeks of Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European Art from the Pearlman Collection.
In the Margins of Princeton’s Great Persian Book of Kings

In the Margins of Princeton’s Great Persian Book of Kings

In addition to its lavish illustration and decoration program, one of the most immediately striking features of the Peck Shahnama is the large number of marginal inscriptions that it includes. While the addition of marginalia is a feature of many...
Transforming Nature: The Watercolors in Cézanne and the Modern

Transforming Nature: The Watercolors in Cézanne and the Modern

According to the French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, during Paul Cézanne’s later years it was not uncommon to discover watercolors he had discarded in the fields near Aix-en-Provence—scattered testimonials to the fine disregard the artist apparently displayed toward these sheets...
Director's Letter Winter 2016

Director's Letter Winter 2016

I have long considered collaboration a practical virtue in helping cultural institutions survive and even punch above their weight class. On the basis of what we see at Princeton this season, it is a creative virtue as well.
Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-creating Dunhuang

Sacred Caves of the Silk Road: Ways of Knowing and Re-creating Dunhuang

At the western edge of China lies the Taklamakan Desert. Bordered by mountain ranges to its north and south, the desert stands as a forbidding gateway between the civilizations of East and Central Asia. To traverse this formidable expanse, two...