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Trenton-Based Artists Investigate Cultural Belonging in New Princeton University Art Museum Exhibition<

Trenton-Based Artists Investigate Cultural Belonging in New Princeton University Art Museum Exhibition

Artworks by Alia Bensliman and Khalilah Sabree, two Trenton, New Jersey–based artists, will go on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery this January.
Remembering Annette Merle-Smith: Docent, Donor, and Friend (1930–2023)

Remembering Annette Merle-Smith: Docent, Donor, and Friend (1930–2023)

Annette was endlessly receptive to new ideas. She was really open-minded and utterly excited by Art on Hulfish, of which she was the lead sponsor.
Art Matters by Donnetta Johnson, Executive Director, Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum

Art Matters by Donnetta Johnson, Executive Director, Stoutsburg Sourland African American Museum

The most important lesson that I have learned is that marginalized communities cannot wait for larger and more powerful institutions to tell our stories. In order to accurately capture our experiences, we must be in charge of telling our stories...
Tigers’ Eyes on Alabama Paper: Tailing Thornton Dial’s Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

Tigers’ Eyes on Alabama Paper: Tailing Thornton Dial’s Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

No artist draws a timeless portrait of the history of African American struggle in Alabama and the Deep South better than Thornton Dial Sr. (1928–2016) of Bessemer, Alabama.
Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

In partnership with Princeton University’s P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and in celebration of the Center’s twentieth anniversary, the Museum recently acquired The Loafers by Liu Xiaodong, one of the most prominent social realist...
Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Tifinagh is an ancient script used to write Tamazight that was preserved by the Indigenous Tuareg communities. The centrality of the Tamazight language is what kept the Amazigh people resilient.
Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

Seen together in Reciting Women , Khalilah Sabree and Alia Bensliman's paintings take on a contemplative form of storytelling, or recitation, that draws on memories and histories to peer into the future with resilience and hope.
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.
Winter 2024 | Director’s Letter: A Digital Renaissance

Winter 2024 | Director’s Letter: A Digital Renaissance

We stand yet again at a critical point of inflection as we consider how to integrate technology into the traditional spaces of museums.
Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art matters because it has the power to bring people together in ways that words alone cannot achieve.