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Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum

Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum

British art is the focus of this summer’s special exhibition, which features more than one hundred rarely seen treasures from the renowned collection of some 10,000 works on paper in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
A Conversation with Collector Christopher E. Olofson

A Conversation with Collector Christopher E. Olofson

Christopher Olofson, Class of 1992, recently sat down with Katherine Bussard, Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, to discuss the exhibition of works from his collection on view in the Art Museum.
Yale-Princeton student partnership bridges art and science to illuminate the early photographers

Yale-Princeton student partnership bridges art and science to illuminate the early photographers
In Depth: The Berlin Painter and His World

In Depth: The Berlin Painter and His World

This spring the Art Museum puts the focus on Greece with the major international loan exhibition The Berlin Painter and His World. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue celebrate ancient Greece and of the ideals of reason, proportion, and human...
Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

The current installation in the Museum’s gallery of contemporary art, revolves around two important paintings currently on loan to the Museum: Tan Tan Bo – In Communication (2014) by Takashi Murakami and The Little Star Dweller (2006) by Yoshitomo Nara.
Adler Distinguished Curator, John Elderﬁeld, Teaches Seminar on Willem de Kooning

Adler Distinguished Curator, John Elderﬁeld, Teaches Seminar on Willem de Kooning

Building on the success of last fall’s upper-level seminar on Paul Cézanne, John Elderfield is teaching a course this fall that addresses aspects of the work of the American artist Willem de Kooning, in particular the relationships in de Kooning’s...
The Art and Life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho

The Art and Life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho

The art and life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, one of the first American-born Jewish artists, speak to the extraordinary and unaccustomed degree of freedom available to Jews in antebellum America. His eleven paintings and photographs on view in By Dawn’s...
The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The American Arts and Crafts movement emerged full force in the years before and after 1900, at a time when diametrically opposed views of the future clashed. Many Americans believed in the power of the machine, the growth of capitalism,...
Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The exhibition includes more than fifty examples of their ceramics, as well as an equally large array of embroidered table runners and wall hangings, chased brass and silver metal wares, jewelry.
By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

Exhibition features some of the earliest novels, poems, religious works, paintings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and scientific treatises produced by Jews in the United States.