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Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L. Hendricks

Reflecting the Art Museum’s commitment to representing multiple aspects of the practices of contemporary artists, we are proud to announce the recent acquisition of a landscape painting and two portrait photographs by Barkley Hendricks showcasing the artist’s lifelong devotion to...
Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

The recent acquisition of a group of artworks—including quilts, sculptures, drawings, and two artist’s books—through gift and purchase from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership marks a significant expansion of the Museum’s collection of twentieth-century American art.
Exhibition: Orlando

Exhibition: Orlando

Orlando is curated by Tilda Swinton and is inspired by the themes of Virginia Woolf’s revolutionary and lyrical novel Orlando: A Biography (1928), which tells the story of a young aristocrat in Elizabethan England who lives for three centuries without...
Student Voices | Guerrilla Girls

Student Voices | Guerrilla Girls
Pivotal Works by African American Artists Enrich the Collections

Pivotal Works by African American Artists Enrich the Collections

This article introduces in chronological sequence five recently acquired works by leading Black modern and contemporary artists, made between the 1940s and the recent present.
Counternarratives of Love: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Toni Morrison

Counternarratives of Love: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Toni Morrison
Lawrence Lek's Virtual Worlds

Lawrence Lek's Virtual Worlds

The very idea of a residency, much like the nature of a campus community, took on a different character in 2020, requiring expansive thinking and new modes of convening.
María Berrío’s The Augur

María Berrío’s The Augur
Kunié Sugiura’s Market Front

Kunié Sugiura’s Market Front

In Market Front, the artist Kunié Sugiura creates a diptych from stretched canvases, painting an abstract gestural color field on one panel and printing a photograph of the boarded-up facade of a market on the Lower East Side of Manhattan...
A Year with the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of Latin America

A Year with the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of Latin America

Although the Princeton University Art Museum is well known for its extraordinary holdings of art of the ancient Americas, its significant collection of modern and contemporary art from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America has not yet received...