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Contemporary Artists Respond to the Old Masters at the Princeton University Art Museum <

Contemporary Artists Respond to the Old Masters at the Princeton University Art Museum

A new exhibition, Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings, invites viewers to discover new connections between iconic artworks in the European canon and art being created today .
Artworks from Across Victor Ekpuk’s Thirty-Year Career to be Shown at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Artworks from Across Victor Ekpuk’s Thirty-Year Career to be Shown at the Princeton University Art Museum

Victor Ekpuk: Language and Lineage (July 22 through October 8) brings together seventeen works that underscore key aspects of Ekpuk’s practice as a visual artist, illustrator, commentator, and global citizen over his thirty-year career.
Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

At the Museum, the preparators—Todd Baldwin, Chris Gorzelnik, Alan Lavery, and Justin Webb—are the people who move, frame, pack, mount, install, and deinstall the precious objects in the collections.
Using Art to Teach Engineering

Using Art to Teach Engineering

Penelope Georges, associate director of Princeton’s STEM Initiatives, Council on Science and Technology, and Veronica White, curator of teaching and learning, recently reflected on their work together teaching from the Museum’s collections
A Trio of Torch Songs: Resistance, Survival, and Celebration

A Trio of Torch Songs: Resistance, Survival, and Celebration

Three of Saar’s four versions of Torch Song , each created in a different medium—a freestanding sculpture, a painting on a carved wood tabletop, and a linocut print—are united for the first time in Cycle of Creativity .
Two Firms, One Team: From Outlets to Exteriors, Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson Partner to Shape Princeton’s New Museum, Summer 2023

Two Firms, One Team: From Outlets to Exteriors, Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson Partner to Shape Princeton’s New Museum, Summer 2023
Exhibition | Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

Exhibition | Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

The history of art is a history of grappling with tradition. Art about Art features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by the early modern European artists who are often called old masters by art historians.
Exhibition | Traces on the Landscape

Exhibition | Traces on the Landscape

On view this summer at Art on Hulfish, Traces on the Landscape brings together eight contemporary artists who employ still and moving images, poetry, sound, natural materials, and historical photographic technologies to interrogate our understanding of humans’ relationship to the...
Art Matters by Eloise Schrier, Class of 2023

Art Matters by Eloise Schrier, Class of 2023

Understanding art engenders a greater understanding of humanity—it has certainly unlocked the world for me.
New Acquisition: Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks)

New Acquisition: Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks)

The Museum has recently acquired Martin Johnson Heade’s compelling Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks) (ca. 1871–75), depicting the Massachusetts shore north of Boston.

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Contemporary Artists Respond to the Old Masters at the Princeton University Art Museum

Artworks from Across Victor Ekpuk’s Thirty-Year Career to be Shown at the Princeton University Art Museum

Handle with Care: Art Preparators at Work

Using Art to Teach Engineering

A Trio of Torch Songs: Resistance, Survival, and Celebration

Two Firms, One Team: From Outlets to Exteriors, Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson Partner to Shape Princeton’s New Museum, Summer 2023

Exhibition | Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

Exhibition | Traces on the Landscape

Art Matters by Eloise Schrier, Class of 2023

New Acquisition: Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks)