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Art Matters by Sandy Kurinsky

Art Matters by Sandy Kurinsky

Art has broadened my outlook, enhanced my community involvement, and taught me so very much—all thanks to my experiences as a docent at the Princeton University Art Museum.
From Ownership to Stewardship

From Ownership to Stewardship

The Princeton University Art Museum hired its first curator of provenance, MaryKate Cleary, last summer. In September 2024 she served as the moderator of a panel discussion that brought together Princeton curators and provenance specialists from major museums—an event intended...
Collaborating with the Princeton University Library on Summer HBCU Programs

Collaborating with the Princeton University Library on Summer HBCU Programs

Last year the Museum and the Library worked together to merge their one-week residential summer programs for students from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).
Art Matters by Rachael Z. DeLue

Art Matters by Rachael Z. DeLue

I am thrilled to be leading the newly minted Princeton Humanities Initiative and excited to think big and capaciously with partners like the Art Museum about what the humanities can accomplish on and off campus in the coming years.
Art Matters by Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames

Art Matters by Rev. Dr. Theresa S. Thames

As group leaders and teachers try to hush the students, I consider that if the celebrity birthday section of a local newspaper was my foray into the art world, imagine how a visit to an actual art museum has the...
Past Made Present in Mexican Photography

Past Made Present in Mexican Photography

There is no “typical week” in a Princeton University classroom. When I learned that the major traveling exhibition Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures would be opening at the Museum’s Art on Hulfish gallery during the spring semester, I knew immediately that...
Art Matters by Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Class of 1991

Art Matters by Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Class of 1991

I ’m a rabbi and a religious teacher and leader. Would it be a surprise to hear that I wouldn’t be a rabbi today, doing what I do, without art?
The Feminist Critique, Fifty Years Later

The Feminist Critique, Fifty Years Later

The challenges that the feminist critique posed to the fields of art history and contemporary art were the subject of my fall 2024 course “The Feminist Critique, Fifty Years Later” in the Department of Art and Archaeology, cross-listed with the...
Remembering Annette Merle-Smith: Docent, Donor, and Friend (1930–2023)

Remembering Annette Merle-Smith: Docent, Donor, and Friend (1930–2023)

Annette was endlessly receptive to new ideas. She was really open-minded and utterly excited by Art on Hulfish, of which she was the lead sponsor.
Art Matters by Donnetta Johnson, Executive Director, Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum

Art Matters by Donnetta Johnson, Executive Director, Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum

The most important lesson that I have learned is that marginalized communities cannot wait for larger and more powerful institutions to tell our stories. In order to accurately capture our experiences, we must be in charge of telling our stories...