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Spring 2023 | Director’s Letter: The Museum between Preservation and Action

Spring 2023 | Director’s Letter: The Museum between Preservation and Action

With the dawn of a new semester at Princeton, I’m entering the classroom again—this time to lead the second iteration of a course titled “The Museum between Preservation and Action.”
Gala 2023: The Museum Takes Shape Dinner Journal

Gala 2023: The Museum Takes Shape Dinner Journal

The dinner journal for the 2023 gala- The Museum Takes Shape.
Powerful Artworks by Alison Saar in Dialogue with the Toni Morrison Papers at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Powerful Artworks by Alison Saar in Dialogue with the Toni Morrison Papers at the Princeton University Art Museum

As part of a campus-wide celebration of the life’s work of Toni Morrison (1931–2019)—acclaimed author, essayist, Nobel Laureate, and Princeton professor—the Princeton University Art Museum will present an exhibition bringing together selections from the Toni Morrison Papers with sculptures, prints,...
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...

Story Archive

Spring 2023 | Director’s Letter: The Museum between Preservation and Action

Gala 2023: The Museum Takes Shape Dinner Journal

Powerful Artworks by Alison Saar in Dialogue with the Toni Morrison Papers at the Princeton University Art Museum

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

Recent Acquisitions of South Asian Art Enhance the Collections

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

Parking, Transportation, and Dress Code

Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

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