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Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

On a sunny Monday afternoon at the Princeton University Art Museum, we piled plates with salad and sandwiches and waited for an artist’s entrance. We made up a smattering of people whose fascination with art blends with all sorts of...
2018 Reunions Programming

2018 Reunions Programming

Programming highlights from the 2018 Reunions programming at the Art Museum
Art Matters Spring 2018

Art Matters Spring 2018

The questions of what is art and why it matters are central to the self-definition of modernity and what it means to make sense of the world through the manipulation of sensible matter. As a scholar of Latin American cultures...
Migration and Material Alchemy

Migration and Material Alchemy

Working from positions of personal or political vulnerability, the artists in this exhibition provide a human context for matters of immense scope and imbue humble materials with spiritual or metaphorical resonance.
Art Matters Winter 2018

Art Matters Winter 2018

I feel like I have become so lost in art that I think of parts of my life as paintings: Picasso’s Guernica captures best the state of my war-torn hometown of Aleppo, Syria; Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes...
Studying Emotions in Art and Science

Studying Emotions in Art and Science

Alexander Todorov, professor of psychology, recently spoke with Veronica White, the Museum’s curator of academic programs, about his fall 2016 freshman seminar “Expressing the Passions of the Soul: The Study of Human Emotions in Art and Science.”
Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics

Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics

During the 1960s, black artists and intellectuals embraced the idea of a black aesthetic as an ideological alternative to Eurocentric notions of beauty and taste. Since then, black aesthetics has served more broadly as a site of convergence across the...
Women Artists at the Princeton University Art Museum

Women Artists at the Princeton University Art Museum

In late March, while leading a discussion on the University’s new gender-neutral housing policy during a meeting of Princeton Students for Gender Equality (PSGE), the group, inclined to free-flowing discussion, became distracted by a question about the intersection of art,...
Art Matters Fall 2017

Art Matters Fall 2017

The Princeton University Art Museum has been a part of my summer for five consecutive years. Whether I was entering through the main or the staff entrance, the Museum’s environment provided me with novel experiences.
Internship Program Continues to Grow

Internship Program Continues to Grow

Since 2002, the Art Museum has held a paid summer internship program that places undergraduates and graduate students in departments across the institution.