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Trenton-Based Artists Investigate Cultural Belonging in New Princeton University Art Museum Exhibition<

Trenton-Based Artists Investigate Cultural Belonging in New Princeton University Art Museum Exhibition

Artworks by Alia Bensliman and Khalilah Sabree, two Trenton, New Jersey–based artists, will go on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery this January.

Threading Memories / MiKyoung Lee to Open at the Princeton University Art Museum's Art@Bainbridge Gallery on October 21<

Threading Memories / MiKyoung Lee to Open at the Princeton University Art Museum's Art@Bainbridge Gallery on October 21

Shaped by a childhood fascination with textiles from her home in South Korea, MiKyoung Lee’s work includes dynamic large-scale sculptures and wall-mounted pieces that reflect her interest in domesticity and the ties of family.

Contemporary Artists Respond to the Old Masters at the Princeton University Art Museum <

Contemporary Artists Respond to the Old Masters at the Princeton University Art Museum

A new exhibition, Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings, invites viewers to discover new connections between iconic artworks in the European canon and art being created today .

Artworks from Across Victor Ekpuk’s Thirty-Year Career to be Shown at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Artworks from Across Victor Ekpuk’s Thirty-Year Career to be Shown at the Princeton University Art Museum

Victor Ekpuk: Language and Lineage (July 22 through October 8) brings together seventeen works that underscore key aspects of Ekpuk’s practice as a visual artist, illustrator, commentator, and global citizen over his thirty-year career.

Contemporary Artists Investigate Human Imprints on the Natural World at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Contemporary Artists Investigate Human Imprints on the Natural World at the Princeton University Art Museum

Traces on the Landscape , a new exhibition, brings together eight contemporary artists who employ still and moving images, poetry, sound, natural materials, and historic photographic technologies to interrogate our understanding of humans’ relationship to the natural world.

Princeton University Art Museum Organizes Exhibition of Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation<

Vincent van Gogh, Tarascon Stagecoach, 1888. The Henry and Rose Pearlman Foundation on loan since 1976 to the Princeton University Art Museum.

Princeton University Art Museum Organizes Exhibition of Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation

Works from the renowned collection of Henry Pearlman, the art collector with a taste for experimental works by Paul Cézanne and other Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, will be presented at two venues in 2023–24 as part of an exhibition organized...

Powerful Artworks by Alison Saar in Dialogue with the Toni Morrison Papers at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Powerful Artworks by Alison Saar in Dialogue with the Toni Morrison Papers at the Princeton University Art Museum

As part of a campus-wide celebration of the life’s work of Toni Morrison (1931–2019)—acclaimed author, essayist, Nobel Laureate, and Princeton professor—the Princeton University Art Museum will present an exhibition bringing together selections from the Toni Morrison Papers with sculptures, prints,...

The Artist Dor Guez Examines the Layered Histories of Jerusalem at the Princeton University Art Museum<

The Artist Dor Guez Examines the Layered Histories of Jerusalem at the Princeton University Art Museum

The Jaffa-based artist Dor Guez’s penetrating transformations of early twentieth-century photographs of Jerusalem will be the subject of a thought-provoking exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum’s galleries at Art@Bainbridge.

The Princeton University Art Museum Reintroduces Its Celebrated American Art Collections in a Boldly Reconsidered Exhibition<

The Princeton University Art Museum Reintroduces Its Celebrated American Art Collections in a Boldly Reconsidered Exhibition

Object Lessons in American Art , drawn entirely from the Museum’s venerable collections, presents more than one hundred works of Euro-American, African American, and Native American art, created between the eighteenth century and today, to ask fundamental questions about artistic...

Acclaimed Photographer and “Man of a Thousand Faces” Samuel Fosso Is the Subject of a Major Survey at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Acclaimed Photographer and “Man of a Thousand Faces” Samuel Fosso Is the Subject of a Major Survey at the Princeton University Art Museum

This fall the Princeton University Art Museum will present Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts , the first major US survey of one of the most renowned contemporary artists based in Africa today.

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