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Peter Paul Rubens's The Abduction of Ganymede

Peter Paul Rubens's The Abduction of Ganymede

In 1636 the great Flemish artist Sir Peter Paul Rubens was commissioned to provide about sixty mythological paintings for the Torre de la Parada, King Philip IV’s hunting lodge outside Madrid. Approximately fifty oil sketches for the project still survive...
Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

H istorical representations of Native North Americans by non-Native artists, often reflecting ethnographic stereotypes and tainted by histories of scientific racism, have long saturated the visual field while failing to offer accurate and nuanced portraits of Indigeneity in American history...
Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections

Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections

Each year the Museum’s Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence program welcomes an artist to campus for class visits and public presentations. Created in 2010 through an endowment established by Sarah Lee Elson—a collector, writer, and art adviser...
Exhibition | Elizabeth Colomba: Repainting the Story

Exhibition | Elizabeth Colomba: Repainting the Story

A strong commitment to the figurative tradition defines the narratives of the artist Elizabeth Colomba, a French citizen of Martinican descent.
Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

How do we do this without a proper museum during the next few years? Well, we start by working creatively. We shape gallery installations in two downtown Princeton venues, each of them with exhibitions chosen for their potential to forge...
Elizabeth Colomba's First Solo Exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum's Art@Bainbridge Gallery This Spring<

Elizabeth Colomba's First Solo Exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum's Art@Bainbridge Gallery This Spring

Elizabeth Colomba: Repainting the Story , the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s gallery space Art@Bainbridge in downtown Princeton from March 12 through May 8, 2022.
Construction Begins on a New Home for the Princeton University Art Museum, Slated to Open in Late 2024<

Construction Begins on a New Home for the Princeton University Art Museum, Slated to Open in Late 2024

Construction has begun on the new Princeton University Art Museum, an entirely new building on the site of the former Museum, at the heart of the Princeton campus. Roughly doubling the square footage of the existing facility, the 144,000-square-foot facility...
Test- Vintage Museum Photographs

Test- Vintage Museum Photographs
The Museum Deconstructed Gala

The Museum Deconstructed Gala

The dinner journal for the 2022 gala- The Museum Deconstructed.
Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

In 2017 the Princeton University Art Museum launched an Application Programming Interface (API) with the goal of making the Museum’s collections of more than 113,000 works of art readily available for students, instructors, curators, and developers around the world.