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Art Matters: Why Art?

Art Matters: Why Art?

Why art? Why does art make a difference in our lives? Mary Miller, Class of 1975 and Sterling Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, offers a thoughtful meditation on how she came to love and appreciate the...
Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

The first installation of loans from the Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program is currently on view. We recently sat down with Kelly Baum, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, to discuss how the Museum became involved with the Rauschenberg Foundation's...
New Acquisition: Royal Yoruba Tunic

New Acquisition: Royal Yoruba Tunic

Covered with thousands of glass beads in intricate patterns, a Yoruba king’s V-neck tunic adds new depth to the Museum’s collection of African art.
In Depth: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

In Depth: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

This selection of over sixty European paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, and decorative objects, dating from around 1480 to around 1605, includes memorable images and riveting portraits of Africans, some of whose identities are known and others who remain anonymous.
The Princeton Maya Vase Conservation Project

The Princeton Maya Vase Conservation Project

Sarah Nunberg, conservator, was first introduced to the Princeton University Art Museum’s Maya vase project when curator Bryan Just approached her to treat the Museum’s Ik’-kingdom vessels. Nunberg recounts her story.
In Depth: City of Gold

In Depth: City of Gold

The form and presentation of art in Cyprus is independent of and at the same time deeply connected to the arts of its neighbors in Greece, Egypt, and the Near East. This duality is explored in City of Gold: Tomb...
Q&A with Sigalit Landau

Q&A with Sigalit Landau

An interview with the artist whose video Dancing for Maya is featured in the special exhibition The Fertile Crescent
Q&A with Laila Shawa

Q&A with Laila Shawa

A short interview with the artist whose work Refraction of Paradise (2008) is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum as part of the special exhibition The Fertile Crescent
Princeton University Art Museum joins Google Art Project

Princeton University Art Museum joins Google Art Project

The Princeton University Art Museum is one of 30 institutions recently added to the Google Art Project. The Google Art Project offers public access to high-resolution images of artworks housed in partnering institutions, which now includes 190 partners worldwide. This...
New on View: Recently Acquired Japanese Screens

New on View: Recently Acquired Japanese Screens

The Museum is pleased to announce the recent installation of an elegant pair of newly acquired screens painted by Kano Tan’yū, together measuring more than twenty-three feet in width. Tan’yū, a pivotal figure in 17th-century Japanese art, composed a minimalist...