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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...
Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Tifinagh is an ancient script used to write Tamazight that was preserved by the Indigenous Tuareg communities. The centrality of the Tamazight language is what kept the Amazigh people resilient.
Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art matters because it has the power to bring people together in ways that words alone cannot achieve.
Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

The painting’s frame is the “setting” that translates a two-dimensional idea into a three-dimensional world.
Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

This summer the Museum partnered with Sharyse Porter, director of the health and wellness nonprofit Dawn of Hope, and Danielle Miller-Winrow, headmaster of Sprout U School of the Arts in Trenton, to pilot an intensive two-week academy for high school...
Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

At the Museum, the preparators—Todd Baldwin, Chris Gorzelnik, Alan Lavery, and Justin Webb—are the people who move, frame, pack, mount, install, and deinstall the precious objects in the collections.