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Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

There is an oft-quoted saying that “stories have the power to take you places”—to worlds unseen and ages long past. This is particularly true in a museum, where objects tell tales of culture and creation. As an Art Museum student...
Art Matters by Izzy Kasdin, Class of 2014, Executive Director, Historical Society of Princeton

Art Matters by Izzy Kasdin, Class of 2014, Executive Director, Historical Society of Princeton

All visitors to museums can experiment with being at once consumers, critics, and creators of museum content, even if just in their private musings. How lucky are we that museums give everyone the access and autonomy to contemplate the physical...
Blackness and Media

Blackness and Media

As early as the nineteenth century, African American cultural producers, critics, writers, consumers, and visual practitioners creatively confronted the vexed, and often exciting, relationship between race and media. This interplay was at the heart of my fall 2018 course “Blackness...
Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

How can paintings from the nineteenth century reflect views about westward expansion? What can a high chest of drawers from Philadelphia reveal about the trade of mahogany? How have works by contemporary artists contributed to modern ecological consciousness? These are...
Vote Today! Princeton University Art Museum Nominated for Favorite Art Museum

Vote Today! Princeton University Art Museum Nominated for Favorite Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum is thrilled to announce its nomination for Favorite Art Museum in the 2019 JerseyArts.com People’s Choice Awards.
A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

Three galleries in the Art Museum are currently filled with this prodigious output in the exhibition Picturing Place in Japan . Each gallery treats a different theme: Imagined Places, Famous Places, and Sacred Places, with a final coda of photographs...
Teaching Nature's Nation

Teaching Nature's Nation

Among the most enjoyable aspects of producing the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment is the opportunity it has afforded to teach related courses at different stages in the project’s gestation.
Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Convened in conjunction with the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment , this two-day symposium extends the exhibition’s focus and approach to the visual cultures of diverse times and places. Seventeen international speakers offer compelling ecocritical analysis of a...
Art Matters

Art Matters

As I anticipate the opening of Nature’s Nation , I am reminded of the great potential of art to create a shared experience in which our eyes are directed to what is lost to sight or routinely overlooked, challenging our...
Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Postcommodity’s time at the Museum as the 2017 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artists-in-Residence resulted in a sound art performance and the acquisition of N13: 31°20'50.88"N; 109°29'47.62"W , one of twenty-six large-scale balloons from their 2015 land art...