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Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

Native America: In Translation , curated by the artist Wendy Red Star, considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based artists who pose challenging questions about land rights, identity and heritage, and histories of colonialism.
Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

Kelly Wang combines contemporary and ancient influences, as well as American and Asian traditions, to create multimedia works infused with elements of cultural identity and personal sorrow.
Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L. Hendricks

Reflecting the Art Museum’s commitment to representing multiple aspects of the practices of contemporary artists, we are proud to announce the recent acquisition of a landscape painting and two portrait photographs by Barkley Hendricks showcasing the artist’s lifelong devotion to...
Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

The effort that the faculty and Art Museum staff made to ensure that we would be able to experience art the way it was intended to be experienced, to be fully immersed within the work, has forever changed my perspective...
Centering Object-Based Learning

Centering Object-Based Learning

During the period when the main building is offline, university-level teaching with works of art continues thanks to the use of off-site and on-campus classrooms, the superb campus collections, and the exhibition venues at Art@Bainbridge and Art on Hulfish.
Princeton University Art Museum Premieres Native America: In Translation<

Princeton University Art Museum Premieres Native America: In Translation

A new exhibition debuting February 5 at the Princeton University Art Museum gathers work by Indigenous artists who consider the complex histories of colonialism, identity, and heritage. The exhibition spans a diverse array of intergenerational practitioners, offering new perspectives by...
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective<

Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Offering a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, PICTURE ECOLOGY: ART AND ECOCRITICISM IN PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE presents a diverse array of art historical criticism formulated within an ecological context.
Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery<

Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery

New York-based artist Kelly Wang (born 1992) combines ancient and contemporary influences to create multimedia works resonant with elements of cultural identity and personal grief.
Winter 2022 | Director’s Letter: Opportunities during Closure

Winter 2022 | Director’s Letter: Opportunities during Closure

My thoughts increasingly turn both to the opportunities afforded by the years of construction and to the vigorous efforts now fully underway to shape our new building curatorially.
Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

The recent acquisition of a group of artworks—including quilts, sculptures, drawings, and two artist’s books—through gift and purchase from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership marks a significant expansion of the Museum’s collection of twentieth-century American art.