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Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

The Nigerian-Cameroonian artist Samuel Fosso (born 1962) is one of the most compelling photographers working in self-portraiture today. The artist, presented in the survey exhibition Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts , has produced self-portraits that explore Pan-African identities and the relationship...
Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

Fresh eyes and minds are posing new questions that can lead us to discover that a beloved object isn’t quite what we thought it was, or equally that an object long relegated to storage is actually exemplary of its type...
Art Matters by Samuel Shapiro, doctoral student, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

Art Matters by Samuel Shapiro, doctoral student, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

How do you introduce a museum’s methods?
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...
Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Study for Negro Sunshine #2 (2004), a drawing in oil stick and coal dust on paper by the American artist Glenn Ligon (born 1960), repeats across the eleven horizontal lines of its composition the letters that make up the words “negro sunshine.”
Art Matters by Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Class of 1981 Founder, Art Against Racism

Art Matters by Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Class of 1981 Founder, Art Against Racism

As I grow older, I have found a fulfillment in creating that I did not find as a lawyer; I have also grown to understand that art can be a tool to empower individuals and build community.
Membership Matters<

Membership Matters

“Anyone can walk into a museum. You don’t need to be from a certain age group or demographic or income bracket. That’s what I love about art.“
Designing the Future Galleries, Fall 2022

Designing the Future Galleries, Fall 2022

As curatorial planning for the Museum’s future galleries advances and accelerates, the Museum has brought on board New York–based Studio Joseph as partners in the gallery design process.
Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

The act of making a new museum at the heart of the nation’s fourth-oldest university is deeply important—a reaffirmation that a museum of objects and ideas can play a profound role in the University’s commitment to a liberal arts education.

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Exhibition | Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts

Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

Art Matters by Samuel Shapiro, doctoral student, Department of Art & Archaeology, Princeton University

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

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

Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Art Matters by Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Class of 1981 Founder, Art Against Racism

Membership Matters

Designing the Future Galleries, Fall 2022

Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum