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African Objects Explored Through the Lens of Layered Surface Accumulations and Meanings<

African Objects Explored Through the Lens of Layered Surface Accumulations and Meanings

Surfaces Seen and Unseen: African Art at Princeton will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum July 2–Oct. 9, 2016.
Innovative American Arts and Crafts Pottery Collective is Chronicled in Comprehensive, Engrossing Exhibition<

Innovative American Arts and Crafts Pottery Collective is Chronicled in Comprehensive, Engrossing Exhibition

Women, Art and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum from May 7 through July 10, 2016.
Objects of Andean Art

Objects of Andean Art

Ancient Andean art can be challenging to teach to undergraduates. In order to explore the art these civilizations produced, students first have to understand the complex cultural contexts.
Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

The exhibition includes more than fifty examples of their ceramics, as well as an equally large array of embroidered table runners and wall hangings, chased brass and silver metal wares, jewelry.
Gifts from the Tang Center

Gifts from the Tang Center

This spring will mark the Tang Center’s fifteenth anniversary, and to celebrate this occasion the installation Gifts from the Tang Center is on view in the Asian galleries.
By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

By Dawn's Early Light: Jewish Contributions to American Culture from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War

Exhibition features some of the earliest novels, poems, religious works, paintings, photographs, newspapers, maps, and scientific treatises produced by Jews in the United States.
Disaster and Disruption

Disaster and Disruption

The first gallery visitors discover as they enter the Museum, Marquand Mather Court, gets a new face this season in response to an extraordinary work of art. Takashi Murakami has emerged in the past fifteen years as one of the...
The British Passion for Landscape

The British Passion for Landscape

Currently on view in Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape are scenes of the agricultural, pastoral, and wild regions of the British Isles together with views of the industrial and mining operations that launched the...
Director's Letter Spring 2016

Director's Letter Spring 2016

Landscape and the land are much on my mind lately. Whether reflecting on the recent talks in Paris that reached an international agreement in the face of climate change, or seeing roses blooming in Princeton in December this year, or...
New Acquisition | Walter Fryer Stocks's Mrs. Fanny Eaton

New Acquisition | Walter Fryer Stocks's Mrs. Fanny Eaton

The Museum recently added to its collections of British art a captivating portrait of the mixed-race model Fanny Eaton that captures a quintessential feature of Pre-Raphaelitism: iconic representations of female beauty.