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Princeton University Art Museum Takes Top Honors in National Design Competition<

Princeton University Art Museum Takes Top Honors in National Design Competition

The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) honored the New Jersey as Non-Site exhibition catalogue with its top publications design award for 2014.

Princeton University Art Museum Forms Advisory Forum of Regional Leaders<

Princeton University Art Museum Forms Advisory Forum of Regional Leaders

Community Leadership Council will bridge University and region to inspire a citizenship that is more engaged in the visual arts.

Princeton University Art Museum Awarded Nearly $100,000 by Institute of Museum and Library Services<

Princeton University Art Museum Awarded Nearly $100,000 by Institute of Museum and Library Services

Grant will enable the digitization of over 5,000 photographs from the Museum's Minor White Archive.

Kongo across the Waters | Press Release<

Kongo across the Waters | Press Release

On view at the Princeton University Art Museum from Oct. 25, 2014 to January 25, 2015, Kongo across the Waters will be the single most important project ever presented at Princeton University that addresses the issues of the slave trade...

Princeton University Art Museum Featured in Exhibition of Student Art and Writing Presented by the Assoc. of Art Museum Directors and the US Dept. of Education in Washington, DC<

Princeton University Art Museum Featured in Exhibition of Student Art and Writing Presented by the Assoc. of Art Museum Directors and the US Dept. of Education in Washington, DC

The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), in partnership with the United States Department of Education in Washington, D.C., is currently hosting Museums: pARTners in Learning. This is their second collaboration to exhibit student art and creative writing resulting from...

CHIGUSA AND THE ART OF TEA IN JAPAN | Legendary 700-year-old tea jar “Chigusa” featured in the U.S. for the first time<

CHIGUSA AND THE ART OF TEA IN JAPAN | Legendary 700-year-old tea jar “Chigusa” featured in the U.S. for the first time

The story of Chigusa is the remarkable tale of an ordinary Chinese storage jar rising, over the course of several centuries and generations of connoisseurs, to become one of the most revered objects of Japan’s chanoyu , or art of...

Exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum through Fall 2014<

Exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum through Fall 2014

KONGO ACROSS THE WATERS | First exhibition in America to deeply explore the legacy of Kongo culture<

KONGO ACROSS THE WATERS | First exhibition in America to deeply explore the legacy of Kongo culture

Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds | First Retrospective of Drawings by Pioneering Modernist<

Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds | First Retrospective of Drawings by Pioneering Modernist

PRINCETON, NJ—Although most celebrated for her forceful and influential sculptures, Lee Bontecou has employed drawing as a distinct and essential part of her creative practice since the dawn of her 50-year career. She has constantly forged a capacious and profoundly...

Rothko to Richter | The Hand of the Artist in Abstract Painting 1950-1990 is Addressed in Princeton<

Rothko to Richter | The Hand of the Artist in Abstract Painting 1950-1990 is Addressed in Princeton

PRINCETON, NJ – A remarkable gathering of paintings by some of the most important artists of the postwar era will provide a window into a moment of extraordinary creative ferment, when the very nature of abstract painting was being hotly...

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