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Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

How do we do this without a proper museum during the next few years? Well, we start by working creatively. We shape gallery installations in two downtown Princeton venues, each of them with exhibitions chosen for their potential to forge...
Elizabeth Colomba's First Solo Exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum's Art@Bainbridge Gallery This Spring<

Elizabeth Colomba's First Solo Exhibition at the Princeton University Art Museum's Art@Bainbridge Gallery This Spring

Elizabeth Colomba: Repainting the Story , the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s gallery space Art@Bainbridge in downtown Princeton from March 12 through May 8, 2022.
Construction Begins on a New Home for the Princeton University Art Museum, Slated to Open in Late 2024<

Construction Begins on a New Home for the Princeton University Art Museum, Slated to Open in Late 2024

Construction has begun on the new Princeton University Art Museum, an entirely new building on the site of the former Museum, at the heart of the Princeton campus. Roughly doubling the square footage of the existing facility, the 144,000-square-foot facility...
Test- Vintage Museum Photographs

Test- Vintage Museum Photographs
The Museum Deconstructed Gala

The Museum Deconstructed Gala

The dinner journal for the 2022 gala- The Museum Deconstructed.
Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

In 2017 the Princeton University Art Museum launched an Application Programming Interface (API) with the goal of making the Museum’s collections of more than 113,000 works of art readily available for students, instructors, curators, and developers around the world.
Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

Native America: In Translation , curated by the artist Wendy Red Star, considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based artists who pose challenging questions about land rights, identity and heritage, and histories of colonialism.
Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

Kelly Wang combines contemporary and ancient influences, as well as American and Asian traditions, to create multimedia works infused with elements of cultural identity and personal sorrow.
Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L. Hendricks

Reflecting the Art Museum’s commitment to representing multiple aspects of the practices of contemporary artists, we are proud to announce the recent acquisition of a landscape painting and two portrait photographs by Barkley Hendricks showcasing the artist’s lifelong devotion to...
Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

The effort that the faculty and Art Museum staff made to ensure that we would be able to experience art the way it was intended to be experienced, to be fully immersed within the work, has forever changed my perspective...