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Member Spotlight: Dexter E. King

Member Spotlight: Dexter E. King

Erin Scheckenbach, manager of individual giving, recently spoke with Dexter E. King, a member of the Princeton University Art Museum since 2019, to learn more about his interests and his relationship with the Museum.
Spring/Summer 2025 | Director’s Letter: The Return of and to Objects

Spring/Summer 2025 | Director’s Letter: The Return of and to Objects

Imagine, then, my delight as a lifelong museumgoer and as a museum director now in my twenty-seventh year—my sixteenth at Princeton—when, on Monday, February 10, I made my way to the new building, through its staff entrance, up the Grand...
A Vision of Connectivity: Curating the New Museum

A Vision of Connectivity: Curating the New Museum
Princeton University Art Museum Announces Opening Date and Inaugural Exhibitions for New Building <

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Opening Date and Inaugural Exhibitions for New Building

The Museum will open to the public on October 31, 2025, with a 24-hour open house and a season of four inaugural special exhibitions
2025 Alumni in the Arts Reunions Events

2025 Alumni in the Arts Reunions Events

2025 Alumni in the Arts Reunions Events
Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Alexandra Foradas as Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art<

Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Alexandra Foradas as Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art
Art Matters by Sandy Kurinsky

Art Matters by Sandy Kurinsky

Art has broadened my outlook, enhanced my community involvement, and taught me so very much—all thanks to my experiences as a docent at the Princeton University Art Museum.
From Ownership to Stewardship

From Ownership to Stewardship

The Princeton University Art Museum hired its first curator of provenance, MaryKate Cleary, last summer. In September 2024 she served as the moderator of a panel discussion that brought together Princeton curators and provenance specialists from major museums—an event intended...
Recent Acquisition | A Key Work from Dürer’s “Master Engravings”

Recent Acquisition | A Key Work from Dürer’s “Master Engravings”

While the Princeton University Art Museum acquired impressions of Albrecht Dürer’s Jerome and Melencolia in 1949 and 1952, respectively, the set remained incomplete until now, with the recent acquisition of an excellent impression of the Knight, Death, and the Devil...
Recent Acquisition | A Major Acquisition of African Modernism

Recent Acquisition | A Major Acquisition of African Modernism

Ibrahim El-Salahi is one of Africa’s most celebrated postcolonial modernist artists, known for his contributions to calligraphic modernism. The Museum has recently acquired one of his paintings.