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  • Works on Paper Study Room Refurbished

    Works on Paper Study Room Refurbished

    The Art Museum has recently refurbished its seminar room dedicated to the study of prints and drawings as the Works on Paper Study Room. For the first time, the room will be open to the public through organized tours on...
  • Rothko to Richter: Special Reunions Weekend Programming

    Rothko to Richter: Special Reunions Weekend Programming

    This year, the Museum will host special programming during Reunions weekend, including a regional beer tasting, book signing, and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning author and art critic Mark Stevens ’73.
  • Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds | First Retrospective of Drawings by Pioneering Modernist<

    Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds | First Retrospective of Drawings by Pioneering Modernist

    PRINCETON, NJ—Although most celebrated for her forceful and influential sculptures, Lee Bontecou has employed drawing as a distinct and essential part of her creative practice since the dawn of her 50-year career. She has constantly forged a capacious and profoundly...
  • The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection

    The Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection

    Over three decades, Henry Pearlman assembled one of the finest collections of modern art remaining in private hands. Explore the collection that has resided at the Princeton University Art Museum since 1976.
  • New campus art commission adorns Whitman College

    New campus art commission adorns Whitman College

    In March 2014, Stardust , a six-panel jacquard tapestry handwoven by fabric artist Bhakti Ziek, was installed in Community Hall at Whitman College. This new video highlights Ziek's creative process.
  • New on View: In the Garden

    New on View: In the Garden

    I n the Garden seeks to demonstrate the rich connections gardens have with nature, culture, and art. Some paintings portray gatherings set in gardens; others depict open landscapes that can be read as gardens based on the activities they host;...
  • New on View: Photography at Princeton

    New on View: Photography at Princeton

    The photography collection serves the Museum's educational ambitions while capitalizing on one of its greatest abilities: the capacity to tell an effective and nuanced history of photography, from its very beginnings in the early nineteenth century to contemporary efforts. The...
  • New on View: Contemporary Art

    New on View: Contemporary Art

    This spring, the Museum is highlighting work by some of the most important artists working today. Most were created in the last fifteen years, and many are recent acquisitions that arrived at the Museum through either purchase or gift. The...
  • Guercino Caricatures

    Guercino Caricatures

    Guercino’s drawings, rendered with spare expressive lines, reveal the artist’s extraordinary ability to observe and capture on paper both the physical deformities and the psychological states of mind of many of his contemporaries.