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In Depth: 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum

In Depth: 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum

The Museum’s first exhibition devoted to Italian drawings since the late 1960s, 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings showcases approximately one hundred works from the fifteenth through twentieth centuries, with significant groups by Luca Cambiaso, Parmigianino, Guercino, Giambattista Tiepolo, and...
New Acquisition: Bust of Isis

New Acquisition: Bust of Isis

The sculpture of Isis adds a new dimension to the Art Museum’s small but important collection of Egyptian art at a time when the study of ancient Egypt is occupying an increasingly prominent place in the curriculum.
New Jersey as Non-Site

New Jersey as Non-Site

New Jersey as Non-Site explores New Jersey as the catalyst for, as well as the site of, major breakthroughs in the genres of sculpture, Pop, conceptual, performace, land, and black art between 1950 and 1975.
Grants Support Object-Based Teaching

Grants Support Object-Based Teaching

Established in 2008, the Andrew W. Mellon Fund for Faculty Innovation at the Princeton University Art Museum encourages innovative curricular initiatives that use the Art Museum’s collections in significant ways.
Casting New Jersey: George Segal and the Peripheries of Everyday Life

Casting New Jersey: George Segal and the Peripheries of Everyday Life

Casting New Jersey , a website of photographs and letters featured in the fall 2013 exhibition New Jersey as Non-Site , offers a glimpse into this archive, particularly via the lens Segal cast on New Jersey’s changing urban landscape and...
In Depth: The Itinerant Languages of Photography

In Depth: The Itinerant Languages of Photography

Through more than ninety works from public and private collections in Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, and the United States, The Itinerant Languages of Photography explores the movement of photographs across borders, offering a diverse and dynamic history of photography that...
Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture

Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture

Picturing Power: Capitalism, Democracy, and American Portraiture gathers together fifty-one of the best portraits from the now-dispersed New York Chamber of Commerce collection in a dense, Salon-style installation evoking their former majestic display at the the group's building near Wall...
Behind the Scenes: Managing the Flow of Art

Behind the Scenes: Managing the Flow of Art

Most visitors to the Princeton University Art Museum are unaware of the complexity involved in the seemingly simple act of placing an art object in a Museum gallery. The registrar and collections services staff is composed of highly trained professionals...
The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation Launches Website

The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation Launches Website

The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation has launched a new website featuring works in the Foundation's collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painting and sculpture, which is on long-term loan to the Princeton University Art Museum. An international tour of the...
The Science of Art: Technical Analysis Leads to New Discoveries

The Science of Art: Technical Analysis Leads to New Discoveries

Looking toward a five-venue tour for the works in the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection—and the publication of an accompanying exhibition catalogue—the collection’s diverse group of sculptures was recently examined. In conducting such studies, conservators assess the overall stability of...