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Call for Submissions - Art in Prospect House

Call for Submissions - Art in Prospect House

Princeton University is pleased to invite undergraduate and graduate students, alumni, faculty, and current staff to submit original works of art for consideration in an installation at Prospect House, due to reopen in August 2024. The deadline for submission is April 28, 2024.
Student Voices | Guerrilla Girls

Student Voices | Guerrilla Girls
Art Matters by Ben Stout, Atelier Art Service

Art Matters by Ben Stout, Atelier Art Service

For the past nine months, I have been part of a team of art handlers and registrars occupied with the task of temporarily relocating nearly all of the artworks in the Princeton University Art Museum. . . . In the...
Preparing for a New Building: Art Evacuation

Preparing for a New Building: Art Evacuation
Spring 2021 | Director's Letter: Museum without Walls

Spring 2021 | Director's Letter: Museum without Walls

The temporary closing of our galleries asks us to think expansively about the meaning and idea of the word campus .
Pivotal Works by African American Artists Enrich the Collections

Pivotal Works by African American Artists Enrich the Collections

This article introduces in chronological sequence five recently acquired works by leading Black modern and contemporary artists, made between the 1940s and the recent present.
Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Large Red Hat

Mary Cassatt’s Little Girl in a Large Red Hat

Mary Cassatt is triply distinguished as among the greatest American artists, the greatest artists of the nineteenth century, and one of the finest female painters of the Western tradition. Little Girl in a Large Red Hat , completed at the...
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...