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A Home Away from Home at the University’s New Residential Colleges

A Home Away from Home at the University’s New Residential Colleges

A significant addition to the campus art collections will greet students when they return to Princeton this fall: The Home We Share (2022).
Conservation Treatment of Henry Moore's Oval with Points

Conservation Treatment of Henry Moore's Oval with Points
Farewell to Lisa Arcomano, Manager of Campus Collections

Farewell to Lisa Arcomano, Manager of Campus Collections

Lisa Arcomano, the University's first Manager of Campus Collections, retired on June 28, 2019
Museum News | New Faces on Campus

Museum News | New Faces on Campus

In 2016 the University adopted the recommendation of the Trustees to make a concerted effort to diversify the art and iconography on campus, including the commissioning of additional portraits honoring distinguished individuals who, over the past seventy-five years, have been...
Museum News | The Public Art of Maya Lin

Museum News | The Public Art of Maya Lin

Two interrelated works of art by Maya Lin will be the latest additions to Princeton University’s campus art collection.
Map | Titus Kaphar Sculpture at Princeton

Map | Titus Kaphar Sculpture at Princeton
Transient Effects

Transient Effects

Transient Effects explores a remarkable union of scientific observation and artistic imagination. In 1918, Howard Russell Butler (1856–1934)—a portrait and landscape artist and graduate of Princeton University’s first school of science—painted with impressive accuracy a total solar eclipse, an astronomical...
Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler

Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler

To celebrate the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century visible in the United States, we have produced Transient Effects , a multimedia online exhibition that focuses on the remarkable career of Howard Russell Butler (1856–1934).
A New Commission by Ursula von Rydingsvard

A New Commission by Ursula von Rydingsvard

An exceptional sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard has been commissioned to highlight the entrance to the new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University.
Monumental New Commission for the Museum Lawn

Monumental New Commission for the Museum Lawn

For nearly thirty years, the artists Doug and Mike Starn—identical twin brothers who are among the most acclaimed public artists of our time—have been making work that defies categorization, combining such media as sculpture, architecture, and photography in investigating organic...