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.
Printing without Limits: Frank Stella, Ken Tyler, and the Making of Juam
Collaborating as artist and craftsman, Stella and Tyler embraced the challenge of expanding the technical capabilities of modern printmaking with each series they made. The result was the development of multimedia prints of unprecedented scale and breathtaking complexity.
Exhibition | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment tells a new environmental history of North American art, tracing evolving ideas about the environment from colonial encounters between Indigenous beliefs and European natural theology through nineteenth-century notions of progress and Manifest Destiny to...
Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum
Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates has been selected as design architect, in collaboration with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, for the new Princeton University Art Museum.
The work of the German artist Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), an important figure in the history of Conceptual art, is the subject of a focused exhibition at the Museum.
Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking
Can an abstract painting tell a story with the same persuasive power and expressive drama as a narrative scene? What is the future for abstract painting—following the artistic brilliance of Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky, and Jackson Pollock, can it continue...
Exhibition Preview | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking
Featuring forty-one works from four major print series, the exhibition is the first to focus on the vital role that literature played in the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of the print medium.
Working from positions of personal or political vulnerability, the artists in this exhibition provide a human context for matters of immense scope and imbue humble materials with spiritual or metaphorical resonance.
During the 1960s, black artists and intellectuals embraced the idea of a black aesthetic as an ideological alternative to Eurocentric notions of beauty and taste. Since then, black aesthetics has served more broadly as a site of convergence across the...
