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Tigers’ Eyes on Alabama Paper: Tailing Thornton Dial’s Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

Tigers’ Eyes on Alabama Paper: Tailing Thornton Dial’s Drawings in the Princeton University Art Museum

No artist draws a timeless portrait of the history of African American struggle in Alabama and the Deep South better than Thornton Dial Sr. (1928–2016) of Bessemer, Alabama.
Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

In partnership with Princeton University’s P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and in celebration of the Center’s twentieth anniversary, the Museum recently acquired The Loafers by Liu Xiaodong, one of the most prominent social realist...
Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

Tifinagh is an ancient script used to write Tamazight that was preserved by the Indigenous Tuareg communities. The centrality of the Tamazight language is what kept the Amazigh people resilient.
Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

Seen together in Reciting Women , Khalilah Sabree and Alia Bensliman's paintings take on a contemplative form of storytelling, or recitation, that draws on memories and histories to peer into the future with resilience and hope.
The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox

The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox

The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox , the artist’s first career-spanning museum exhibition, explores themes of motherhood, liberation, isolation, self-realization, and joy.
Winter 2024 | Director’s Letter: A Digital Renaissance

Winter 2024 | Director’s Letter: A Digital Renaissance

We stand yet again at a critical point of inflection as we consider how to integrate technology into the traditional spaces of museums.
Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art Matters by Rahsaan Harris, Class of 1995

Art matters because it has the power to bring people together in ways that words alone cannot achieve.
Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

The painting’s frame is the “setting” that translates a two-dimensional idea into a three-dimensional world.
Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

This summer the Museum partnered with Sharyse Porter, director of the health and wellness nonprofit Dawn of Hope, and Danielle Miller-Winrow, headmaster of Sprout U School of the Arts in Trenton, to pilot an intensive two-week academy for high school...
A Major Gift of American Prints

A Major Gift of American Prints

The Museum’s collection of American prints and drawings has been substantially augmented by a recent gift from Richard Reinis, Class of 1966, and Lois Reinis.