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Exhibition: “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?”: Photography and Touch

Exhibition: “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?”: Photography and Touch

We take up the question “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?” for this exhibition, exploring aliveness and complexity through the conceptual framing of materiality, affect, embodiment, and collaboration in relation to touch and photography.
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.
The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox

The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox

The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox , the artist’s first career-spanning museum exhibition, explores themes of motherhood, liberation, isolation, self-realization, and joy.
Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

This fall an exhibition at Art on Hulfish presents modern meditations on canonical paintings from early modern Europe. Organized around the genres of portraiture and still life, the exhibition probes the relationship between art and image.
Exhibition | Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

Exhibition | Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

The history of art is a history of grappling with tradition. Art about Art features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by the early modern European artists who are often called old masters by art historians.
Exhibition | Traces on the Landscape

Exhibition | Traces on the Landscape

On view this summer at Art on Hulfish, Traces on the Landscape brings together eight contemporary artists who employ still and moving images, poetry, sound, natural materials, and historical photographic technologies to interrogate our understanding of humans’ relationship to the...
Exhibition | You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography

Exhibition | You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography

Curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas writes about how she created the exhibition You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography.
Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

The Nigerian-Cameroonian artist Samuel Fosso (born 1962) is one of the most compelling photographers working in self-portraiture today. The artist, presented in the survey exhibition Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts , has produced self-portraits that explore Pan-African identities and the relationship...
Exhibition | Time’s Relentless Melt

Exhibition | Time’s Relentless Melt

The photographic and time-based works in the exhibition Time’s Relentless Melt consider the multifaceted nature of time, which can be linear, cyclical, disjointed, or compressed.