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Counternarratives of Love: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Toni Morrison

Counternarratives of Love: The Art of Elizabeth Catlett, Wadsworth Jarrell, and Toni Morrison
Art Matters by Shelby Kinch '22

Art Matters by Shelby Kinch '22

As a member of SAB over the past two years, I have seen firsthand the ways that art can bring us together, even in unprecedented circumstances.
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

We recently spoke with Karl Kusserow, co-curator of the Museumʼs groundbreaking 2018 exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment and editor of the forthcoming book Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective . The publication features essays by scholars...
March 2021 | Endings and Beginnings

March 2021 | Endings and Beginnings
Collecting Initiative Expands the Museum's Photography Holdings

Collecting Initiative Expands the Museum's Photography Holdings

Since 2019 the photography department has undertaken an expansive initiative to acquire work by women, whose contributions remain significantly underrepresented across all time periods when compared to our holdings of works made by their male peers.
Recent Acquisition: A Late Formative Maya Figural Sculpture

Recent Acquisition: A Late Formative Maya Figural Sculpture
Lawrence Lek's Virtual Worlds

Lawrence Lek's Virtual Worlds

The very idea of a residency, much like the nature of a campus community, took on a different character in 2020, requiring expansive thinking and new modes of convening.
Winter 2021 | Director's Letter: Collecting Initiatives

Winter 2021 | Director's Letter: Collecting Initiatives

Within the limits of this letter, let me note three multiyear collecting initiatives about which I am particularly excited.
Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum<

Masterpiece of Impressionism by Mary Cassatt Joins Collection of Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum has acquired Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Large Red Hat (ca. 1881), an exceptionally insightful portrayal of young girlhood and a masterpiece of Impressionist painting.
Preparing for a New Museum Building: Conservation Assessments Underway

Preparing for a New Museum Building: Conservation Assessments Underway

As we prepare for the construction of the new Art Museum building, scheduled to begin in 2021, considerable planning is underway for the safe removal of all works of art currently on display in the Museum. For works that are...