Making History Visible

This fall, as part of a rich campus-wide initiative examining the ties of early University trustees, presidents, faculty, and students to the institution of slavery, the Museum is presenting a broad range of opportunities to explore the ways in which artists represent and engage with American history and wrestle with a legacy that puts Princeton not just at the center of our nation’s struggle for freedom but also at the heart of its long association with slavery.

Sir David Adjaye to Design the Museum’s New Home

Sir David Adjaye to Design the Museum’s New Home

Even as the Art Museum welcomes visitors and organizes exhibitions that will run through 2020, Museum staff and many of our University colleagues are busily at work planning for the new Museum facility that will replace most of the current...
Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Celebrating a Transformative Gift

Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Celebrating a Transformative Gift

Frankenthaler was the most prolific printmaker of her generation, and she is renowned for her innovative approach to traditional processes. The Princeton University Art Museum is honored to be among the first ten institutions included in the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative,...
Exhibition | Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Exhibition | Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Miracles on the Border features fifty luminous retablos, painted personal expressions of gratitude dedicated to holy figures to consecrate miraculous events. Spanning the entirety of the twentieth century, these particular votives were offered by Mexican migrants or their families to...
In the Galleries: The Figure Abstracted

In the Galleries: The Figure Abstracted

This spring an installation brings together works from the Museum’s collections and a series of spectacular loans from private collections to consider the body as a site and subject of artistic practice in works from the 1970s to today.
Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

The Art Museum is pleased to present the extraordinary Surface Series from Currents —eighteen provocative screenprints created by Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), one of the most influential American artists in the second half of the twentieth century. This rarely seen series,...
Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

How can paintings from the nineteenth century reflect views about westward expansion? What can a high chest of drawers from Philadelphia reveal about the trade of mahogany? How have works by contemporary artists contributed to modern ecological consciousness? These are...
Teaching Nature's Nation

Teaching Nature's Nation

Among the most enjoyable aspects of producing the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment is the opportunity it has afforded to teach related courses at different stages in the project’s gestation.
Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Convened in conjunction with the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment , this two-day symposium extends the exhibition’s focus and approach to the visual cultures of diverse times and places. Seventeen international speakers offer compelling ecocritical analysis of a...
Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Postcommodity’s time at the Museum as the 2017 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artists-in-Residence resulted in a sound art performance and the acquisition of N13: 31°20'50.88"N; 109°29'47.62"W , one of twenty-six large-scale balloons from their 2015 land art...

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