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Membership Matters: A Legacy of Philanthropy and a Vision for the Future<

Membership Matters: A Legacy of Philanthropy and a Vision for the Future

For Blair Moll, Princeton Class of 2010, a love of the arts—and a history of cultural philanthropy—has always been a family affair.
Recent Acquisitions of South Asian Art Enhance the Collections

Recent Acquisitions of South Asian Art Enhance the Collections

Four recent acquisitions, made between 2010 and 2022, demonstrate one avenue of our collecting focus: portraiture and images that reify status and rank.
How to Build a Museum One Well-Planned Step at a Time

How to Build a Museum One Well-Planned Step at a Time

Marion Gill, Princeton University’s associate director of special projects, knows museums, and she knows how to help build them.
Parking, Transportation, and Dress Code

Parking, Transportation, and Dress Code
Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

Colony / Dor Guez presents work by the Jerusalem-born artist Dor Guez that explores the layered identities of the city of his birth.
Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

The Nigerian-Cameroonian artist Samuel Fosso (born 1962) is one of the most compelling photographers working in self-portraiture today. The artist, presented in the survey exhibition Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts , has produced self-portraits that explore Pan-African identities and the relationship...
Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

Fresh eyes and minds are posing new questions that can lead us to discover that a beloved object isn’t quite what we thought it was, or equally that an object long relegated to storage is actually exemplary of its type...
Art Matters by Samuel Shapiro, doctoral student, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

Art Matters by Samuel Shapiro, doctoral student, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

How do you introduce a museum’s methods?
The Artist Dor Guez Examines the Layered Histories of Jerusalem at the Princeton University Art Museum<

The Artist Dor Guez Examines the Layered Histories of Jerusalem at the Princeton University Art Museum

The Jaffa-based artist Dor Guez’s penetrating transformations of early twentieth-century photographs of Jerusalem will be the subject of a thought-provoking exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum’s galleries at Art@Bainbridge.
The Princeton University Art Museum Reintroduces Its Celebrated American Art Collections in a Boldly Reconsidered Exhibition<

The Princeton University Art Museum Reintroduces Its Celebrated American Art Collections in a Boldly Reconsidered Exhibition

Object Lessons in American Art , drawn entirely from the Museum’s venerable collections, presents more than one hundred works of Euro-American, African American, and Native American art, created between the eighteenth century and today, to ask fundamental questions about artistic...