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Director's Letter Fall 2014

Director's Letter Fall 2014
Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan

Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan

Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan brings to Princeton an object that reached a high peak of fame in sixteenth-century Japan: a tea-leaf storage jar named Chigusa. Remarkably, Chigusa’s history can be tracked from even before that time...
Authority Embodied: Nkisi

Authority Embodied: Nkisi

Kongo across the Waters notably presents a rich selection of Kongo minkisi (singular nkisi ). A nkisi is a container that holds an ancestral spirit as well as empowering materials or medicines.
Kongo across the Waters

Kongo across the Waters

Kongo across the Waters explores the vibrant culture of Kongo peoples from West Central Africa and the transmission and enduring influence of that culture in the Americas.
Princeton University Art Museum Awarded Nearly $100,000 by Institute of Museum and Library Services<

Princeton University Art Museum Awarded Nearly $100,000 by Institute of Museum and Library Services

Grant will enable the digitization of over 5,000 photographs from the Museum's Minor White Archive.
Kongo across the Waters | Press Release<

Kongo across the Waters | Press Release

On view at the Princeton University Art Museum from Oct. 25, 2014 to January 25, 2015, Kongo across the Waters will be the single most important project ever presented at Princeton University that addresses the issues of the slave trade...
New York Times praises Lee Bontecou exhibition at Princeton

New York Times praises Lee Bontecou exhibition at Princeton

“'Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds,' at the Princeton University Art Museum, is as stimulating an exhibition of works on paper as you might expect from an artist known for “drawing” with a blowtorch," says Karen Rosenberg in her review of Lee...
Princeton University Art Museum Featured in Exhibition of Student Art and Writing Presented by the Assoc. of Art Museum Directors and the US Dept. of Education in Washington, DC<

Princeton University Art Museum Featured in Exhibition of Student Art and Writing Presented by the Assoc. of Art Museum Directors and the US Dept. of Education in Washington, DC

The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), in partnership with the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C., is currently hosting Museums: pARTners in Learning. This is their second collaboration to exhibit student art and creative writing resulting from...
CHIGUSA AND THE ART OF TEA IN JAPAN | Legendary 700-year-old tea jar “Chigusa” featured in the U.S. for the first time<

CHIGUSA AND THE ART OF TEA IN JAPAN | Legendary 700-year-old tea jar “Chigusa” featured in the U.S. for the first time

The story of Chigusa is the remarkable tale of an ordinary Chinese storage jar rising, over the course of several centuries and generations of connoisseurs, to become one of the most revered objects of Japan’s chanoyu , or art of...
Beyond the Classroom: Shanghai

Beyond the Classroom: Shanghai

“Anxious Megalopolis: Shanghai’s Urban Cultures (1842 – to the present)” will be offered in the fall semester of 2014. Team-taught by Esther da Costa Meyer, professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology, and Cary Y. Liu, curator of Asian...