Last year the Museum acquired Guadalupe Maravilla’s I crossed the border (2021). In this piece, made during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maravilla reflects on their Mestizo heritage, combining Mesoamerican imagery, Catholic iconography, and healing practices from multiple spiritual and shamanic traditions...

Four recent acquisitions, made between 2010 and 2022, demonstrate one avenue of our collecting focus: portraiture and images that reify status and rank.

How do you introduce a museum’s methods?

As I grow older, I have found a fulfillment in creating that I did not find as a lawyer; I have also grown to understand that art can be a tool to empower individuals and build community.

In 2012 Princeton acquired an eighth-century Japanese manuscript of twenty lines. The pithy text, called the Heart Sutra , is said to encapsulate the wisdom of the Buddha through such enigmatic phrases as “form is emptiness, emptiness is form.” But...

The visionary gift McAlpin made fifty years ago ensured that Princeton would become a pioneer in the study of photography; that legacy is now in our DNA and will remain at the heart of our work for decades to come.

In real time and in real space, a student encounters a work of art without glass or another artificial interface. To my mind, this is the ideal way to study or teach art history, and with the Princeton University Art...

In the spring semester of 2022, one of the freshman seminars offered was “China’s Objects: Opulence and Innovation,” which curator Zoe S. Kwok taught, making use of the Museum’s collections.

The mission of the Arts Council is Building Community through the Arts. As a nonprofit arts organization supporting artists and promoting art within our gallery and through public art, we play a vital role in providing access to the arts,...

Each year the Museum’s Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence program welcomes an artist to campus for class visits and public presentations. Created in 2010 through an endowment established by Sarah Lee Elson—a collector, writer, and art adviser...