Museum News: The Art Museum’s Collections Travel the World
Museum News
The Art Museum’s Collections Travel the World
Traveling exhibitions, partnerships, collaborations, and loans are bringing the collections of the Princeton University Art Museum and its scholarship to museums around the world. Here is a selection of exhibitions on view beginning in 2023 that feature works from Museum’s collections.
Vittore Carpaccio: Master Storyteller of Renaissance Venice
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,
through February 12, 2023
Palazzo Ducale, Venice, March 18–June 18, 2023
Vittore Carpaccio (ca. 1460–ca. 1526) was a leading figure in the art of Renaissance Venice, best known for his spectacular narrative paintings that brought sacred history to life. Although the artist was celebrated in his native city for his observant eye, fertile imagination, and storytelling prowess, this exhibition marks the first retrospective of his work ever held outside Italy. Some forty-five paintings are displayed with thirty drawings, including Princeton’s Two Standing Women, One in Mamluk Dress (1501–8).
ON VIEW THROUGH JANUARY 16, 2023
Life Magazine and the Power of Photography
Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“ A new Life magazine exhibition at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts is revelatory—and riveting” —Sebastian Smee, Washington Post
Object Lessons in American Art: Selections from the Princeton University Art Museum
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, February 4 to May 14, 2023
Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut,
June 3 to September 10, 2023
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky,
September 29, 2023, to January 7, 2024
Inspired by the concept of the object lesson—the study of a material thing to communicate a larger idea—Object Lessons in American Art features four centuries of works from the Museum’s collections that collectively explore American history, culture, and society. Incorporating works by Euro-American, Native American, and African American artists, the exhibition demonstrates the value of juxtaposing diverse objects to generate new questions and new understanding. Its focus on race, gender, and the environment will afford new insights into the American past and present. Object Lessons is curated by Karl Kusserow, John Wilmerding Curator of American Art.
Object Lessons in American Art was made possible by the leadership support of the Terra Foundation for American Art. The accompanying publication is made possible by the generous support of Annette Merle-Smith and by additional support from the Barr Ferree Foundation Fund for Publications, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University.
Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii
San Antonio Museum of Art, February 24 to May 21, 2023
The first exhibition in the United States to explore landscape scenes as a genre of ancient Roman art, Roman Landscapes features sixty-five wall paintings, sculptures, mosaics, and cameo glass and silver vessels created in Roman Italy between 100 BCE and 250 CE, including Princeton’s first-century Roman cup with Bacchic motifs. The works on view depict a fascinating yet imaginary vision of a countryside dotted with seaside villas and rural shrines, where gods and mythological heroes mingle with travelers, herdsmen, and worshippers.
Princeton University Art Museum Winter 2023 Magazine
