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Scenes in the Entertainment District

Scenes in the Entertainment District

T he Museum recently acquired a pair of magnificent Japanese six-panel folding screens that date to the seventeenth century.
George Inness’s Moonrise

George Inness’s Moonrise

Moonrise is a seminal expression of George Inness’s mature style, the culmination of a gradual evolution that began with the artist’s move away from the classically descriptive compositions with which he began his career, exemplified by Pastoral Scene of 1857,...
Exhibition: “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?”: Photography and Touch

Exhibition: “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?”: Photography and Touch

We take up the question “Don’t we touch each other just to prove we are still here?” for this exhibition, exploring aliveness and complexity through the conceptual framing of materiality, affect, embodiment, and collaboration in relation to touch and photography.
A Generous Legacy: Transformative Gifts Continue to Shape Princeton’s Collections

A Generous Legacy: Transformative Gifts Continue to Shape Princeton’s Collections

The tradition of giving endures as the Museum continues to secure transformational gifts and promised gifts of art on the occasion of its new, once-in-a-century facility, under the auspices of a “campaign for art” undertaken in 2021
Summer 2024 | Director's Letter: Forging Connections

Summer 2024 | Director's Letter: Forging Connections

As I reflect on the summer comings and goings, what appears to me to be a through line is the coming together of communities.
Princeton University Art Museum Announces Six Site-Specific Artworks for New Building Opening in 2025<

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Six Site-Specific Artworks for New Building Opening in 2025

Today the Princeton University Art Museum announced the contemporary artists selected for four large-scale commissions and two acquisitions that will be integrated into the architecture and surrounding landscape of the Museum’s new building.
Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Kit Brooks as Curator of Asian Art <

Princeton University Art Museum Appoints Kit Brooks as Curator of Asian Art

Kit Brooks has been named Curator of Asian Art at the Princeton University Art Museum.
Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

All of this is a precursor to what awaits us in Princeton’s own galleries when they open next year. How exciting to rediscover old friends in new settings—in the company of equally familiar works or accompanied by chronologically or culturally...
Art Matters by Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Class of 1991

Art Matters by Rabbi Gil Steinlauf, Class of 1991

I ’m a rabbi and a religious teacher and leader. Would it be a surprise to hear that I wouldn’t be a rabbi today, doing what I do, without art?
The Feminist Critique, Fifty Years Later

The Feminist Critique, Fifty Years Later

The challenges that the feminist critique posed to the fields of art history and contemporary art were the subject of my fall 2024 course “The Feminist Critique, Fifty Years Later” in the Department of Art and Archaeology, cross-listed with the...