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Exhibition | Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers

Exhibition | Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers

Alison Saar discusses the ideas and influences for works featured in the exhibition Cycle of Creativity with Mitra Abbaspour, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Masterworks of Abstract Expressionism Gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum

Masterworks of Abstract Expressionism Gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum

When the Princeton University Art Museum opens its new building in early 2025, eight masterpieces of abstract painting, a recent gift from Preston H. Haskell, Class of 1960, will be on view in the galleries.
Spring 2023 | Director’s Letter: The Museum between Preservation and Action

Spring 2023 | Director’s Letter: The Museum between Preservation and Action

With the dawn of a new semester at Princeton, I’m entering the classroom again—this time to lead the second iteration of a course titled “The Museum between Preservation and Action.”
Gala 2023: The Museum Takes Shape Dinner Journal

Gala 2023: The Museum Takes Shape Dinner Journal

The dinner journal for the 2023 gala- The Museum Takes Shape.
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,...
Membership Matters: A Legacy of Philanthropy and a Vision for the Future<

Membership Matters: A Legacy of Philanthropy and a Vision for the Future

For Blair Moll, Princeton Class of 2010, a love of the arts—and a history of cultural philanthropy—has always been a family affair.
Recent Acquisitions of South Asian Art Enhance the Collections

Recent Acquisitions of South Asian Art Enhance the Collections

Four recent acquisitions, made between 2010 and 2022, demonstrate one avenue of our collecting focus: portraiture and images that reify status and rank.
How to Build a Museum One Well-Planned Step at a Time

How to Build a Museum One Well-Planned Step at a Time

Marion Gill, Princeton University’s associate director of special projects, knows museums, and she knows how to help build them.
Parking, Transportation, and Dress Code

Parking, Transportation, and Dress Code
Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

Colony / Dor Guez presents work by the Jerusalem-born artist Dor Guez that explores the layered identities of the city of his birth.