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Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

The current installation in the Museum’s gallery of contemporary art, revolves around two important paintings currently on loan to the Museum: Tan Tan Bo – In Communication (2014) by Takashi Murakami and The Little Star Dweller (2006) by Yoshitomo Nara.
Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

Sound cannot be seen, but it can be heard and felt as vibrations, and it has the ability to move the spirit through music and memory. These experiences allow the knowledge and presence of sound to be visualized in painting,...
Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

This exhibition features a range of contemporary art practices that mine and reinterpret visual and narrative traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Envisioned as a conversation with Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art , an...
Epic Tales from India

Epic Tales from India

Epic Tales from India includes ninety-one paintings from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art—tiny treasures only a few inches in dimension but outsized in their impact. In this exhibition, the main objective is to present the paintings...
Going to Extremes: Physiognomy, Caricature, and Studies of Expression

Going to Extremes: Physiognomy, Caricature, and Studies of Expression

This selection of prints, drawings, and photographs from several centuries and diverse cultures examines artists’ enduring fascination with depicting and interpreting faces.
Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

This past academic year, numerous Italian language and literature courses visited the Art Museum to discuss Italian style and culture while engaging with original works of art. The classes varied widely in scope and pedagogic approach, and the instructors and...
The Role of Art in Today’s Political Climate | Director's Letter Winter 2017

The Role of Art in Today’s Political Climate | Director's Letter Winter 2017

This winter, the Museum’s galleries are full of works that attest to the continuing vitality of art, the power of close and sustained looking, and the importance of the universal museum.
Princeton University Art Museum Announces Online Access to Vast Minor White Photographic Archive<

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Online Access to Vast Minor White Photographic Archive

Two-year project funded by IMLS provided digitization and cataloguing of White’s most important photographs and materials
Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler

Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler

To celebrate the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century visible in the United States, we have produced Transient Effects , a multimedia online exhibition that focuses on the remarkable career of Howard Russell Butler (1856–1934).
Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Grant from IMLS in Support of Collections Discovery and Access<

Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Grant from IMLS in Support of Collections Discovery and Access

Museum’s Asian art collections to be made substantially more accessible to scholars and the public.