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Princeton University Art Museum Announces Enhanced Online Access to Asian Art Collection<

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Enhanced Online Access to Asian Art Collection

A dynamic new look at the world-renowned Asian art collection at the Princeton University Art Museum has been made possible through a $150,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
Object Highlight | The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man," 1979–2009

Object Highlight | The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man," 1979–2009

The Museum recently acquired the work The Life of an Image: “Molotov Man,” 1979–2009 , by photographer Susan Meiselas
Art Matters

Art Matters

As I anticipate the opening of Nature’s Nation , I am reminded of the great potential of art to create a shared experience in which our eyes are directed to what is lost to sight or routinely overlooked, challenging our...
Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Postcommodity’s time at the Museum as the 2017 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artists-in-Residence resulted in a sound art performance and the acquisition of N13: 31°20'50.88"N; 109°29'47.62"W , one of twenty-six large-scale balloons from their 2015 land art...
Printing without Limits: Frank Stella, Ken Tyler, and the Making of Juam

Printing without Limits: Frank Stella, Ken Tyler, and the Making of Juam

Collaborating as artist and craftsman, Stella and Tyler embraced the challenge of expanding the technical capabilities of modern printmaking with each series they made. The result was the development of multimedia prints of unprecedented scale and breathtaking complexity.
Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

Picturing Place in Japan focuses on Japanese representations of place from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Three long-standing traditions of place in the visual arts form the core of the exhibition: “imagined places,” “famous places,” and “sacred places,”...
Museums as "activist" institutions | Director's Letter Fall 2018

Museums as "activist" institutions | Director's Letter Fall 2018

James Steward discusses how art museums have operated, and might now operate, as “activist” institutions by asking important questions and showing work that fosters debate and a reconsideration of accepted readings, and thus act as agents of change.
Exhibition | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Exhibition | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment tells a new environmental history of North American art, tracing evolving ideas about the environment from colonial encounters between Indigenous beliefs and European natural theology through nineteenth-century notions of progress and Manifest Destiny to...
Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates has been selected as design architect, in collaboration with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, for the new Princeton University Art Museum.
New Princeton University Art Museum Envisioned as "Cultural Gateway"; Architects Selected<

New Princeton University Art Museum Envisioned as "Cultural Gateway"; Architects Selected

Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates has been selected as design architect, in collaboration with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, for the new Princeton University Art Museum.