Understanding art engenders a greater understanding of humanity—it has certainly unlocked the world for me.

While museums continue to be spaces that inspire and provide near spiritual encounters with art, I believe they can also test limits, trigger debate, and coax you out of your comfort zone.

In 2020 and 2021, the removal of more than one hundred large-scale and embedded works from the old building was a particularly complicated task; installing these objects again in the new building will also be a massive undertaking. Since nearly...

How do you introduce a museum’s methods?

As I grow older, I have found a fulfillment in creating that I did not find as a lawyer; I have also grown to understand that art can be a tool to empower individuals and build community.

In real time and in real space, a student encounters a work of art without glass or another artificial interface. To my mind, this is the ideal way to study or teach art history, and with the Princeton University Art...

In the spring semester of 2022, one of the freshman seminars offered was “China’s Objects: Opulence and Innovation,” which curator Zoe S. Kwok taught, making use of the Museum’s collections.

The mission of the Arts Council is Building Community through the Arts. As a nonprofit arts organization supporting artists and promoting art within our gallery and through public art, we play a vital role in providing access to the arts,...

Each year the Museum’s Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence program welcomes an artist to campus for class visits and public presentations. Created in 2010 through an endowment established by Sarah Lee Elson—a collector, writer, and art adviser...

In 2017 the Princeton University Art Museum launched an Application Programming Interface (API) with the goal of making the Museum’s collections of more than 113,000 works of art readily available for students, instructors, curators, and developers around the world.