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Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

How do we do this without a proper museum during the next few years? Well, we start by working creatively. We shape gallery installations in two downtown Princeton venues, each of them with exhibitions chosen for their potential to forge...
Winter 2022 | Director’s Letter: Opportunities during Closure

Winter 2022 | Director’s Letter: Opportunities during Closure

My thoughts increasingly turn both to the opportunities afforded by the years of construction and to the vigorous efforts now fully underway to shape our new building curatorially.
Fall 2021 | Director's Letter: Investments in the New

Fall 2021 | Director's Letter: Investments in the New

It feels particularly important that we are offsetting the loss of the old with a lively investment in the new, not just for when construction is complete but right now.
Summer 2021 | Director's Letter: The Art Museum as a humanistic laboratory

Summer 2021 | Director's Letter: The Art Museum as a humanistic laboratory
Spring 2021 | Director's Letter: Museum without Walls

Spring 2021 | Director's Letter: Museum without Walls

The temporary closing of our galleries asks us to think expansively about the meaning and idea of the word campus .
Winter 2021 | Director's Letter: Collecting Initiatives

Winter 2021 | Director's Letter: Collecting Initiatives

Within the limits of this letter, let me note three multiyear collecting initiatives about which I am particularly excited.
Fall 2020 | Director's Letter: How do we translate our values into action?

Fall 2020 | Director's Letter: How do we translate our values into action?

How do we translate our values into action? How do we act intentionally and strategically in the face of quotidian stresses and fears?
Summer 2020 | Director's Letter: Shaping a New Facility for the Princeton University Art Museum

Summer 2020 | Director's Letter: Shaping a New Facility for the Princeton University Art Museum

We have the opportunity to shape a building that fosters new modes of investigation; that honors and fosters the values of diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice; and that affords new moments of aspiration and inspiration.
June 2020 | Combatting the Pandemic of Racism

June 2020 | Combatting the Pandemic of Racism

We renew our commitment and lift our voices in support of things that matter. We shall bring new artistic and historical voices and perspectives into the public square that a museum affords.
Princeton University Art Museum Closed Temporarily to Visitors

Princeton University Art Museum Closed Temporarily to Visitors

With regret, the Princeton University Art Museum temporarily closed its doors to visitors at 5 p.m., Sunday, March 15.

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Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

Winter 2022 | Director’s Letter: Opportunities during Closure

Fall 2021 | Director's Letter: Investments in the New

Summer 2021 | Director's Letter: The Art Museum as a humanistic laboratory

Spring 2021 | Director's Letter: Museum without Walls

Winter 2021 | Director's Letter: Collecting Initiatives

Fall 2020 | Director's Letter: How do we translate our values into action?

Summer 2020 | Director's Letter: Shaping a New Facility for the Princeton University Art Museum

June 2020 | Combatting the Pandemic of Racism

Princeton University Art Museum Closed Temporarily to Visitors