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Summer 2024 | Director's Letter: Forging Connections

Summer 2024 | Director's Letter: Forging Connections

As I reflect on the summer comings and goings, what appears to me to be a through line is the coming together of communities.
Princeton University Art Museum Announces Six Site-Specific Artworks for New Building Opening in 2025<

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Six Site-Specific Artworks for New Building Opening in 2025

Today the Princeton University Art Museum announced the contemporary artists selected for four large-scale commissions and two acquisitions that will be integrated into the architecture and surrounding landscape of the Museum’s new building.
Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Kit Brooks as Curator of Asian Art <

Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Kit Brooks as Curator of Asian Art

Kit Brooks has been named Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

All of this is a precursor to what awaits us in Princeton’s own galleries when they open next year. How exciting to rediscover old friends in new settings—in the company of equally familiar works or accompanied by chronologically or culturally...
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...
Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History

Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History

This spring and summer, Art@Bainbridge hosts Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History , co-organized by the Museum, Princeton University’s Brazil LAB, and the Department of Anthropology.
Newly Acquired Prints Showcase Rembrandt’s Innovative Printmaking Practice

Newly Acquired Prints Showcase Rembrandt’s Innovative Printmaking Practice

The Museum recently acquired two etchings by the seventeenth-century Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669): The Windmill of 1641 and The Flight into Egypt: Altered from Segers of around 1652.
The Museum Welcomes the Emmet Gowin Archive

The Museum Welcomes the Emmet Gowin Archive

Getting to know Emmet and his equally amazing wife, Edith, has been one of the great joys of my time at the Museum, and working with them both to bring the Emmet Gowin archive to Princeton has been one of...
Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures

Christina Fernandez: Multiple Exposures

Christina Fernandez is a Los Angeles–based artist who has spent more than thirty years conducting a rich exploration of migration, labor, and gender through her photography.