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Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

The Art Museum has recently acquired an extraordinary group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934–2015). The nearly five thousand works, which come to the Museum from Graves’s estate, span the entire range of his...
Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

Exhibition | Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection

This summer the Art Museum celebrates the life and career of one of its most renowned curators in Legacy: Selections from the Gillett G. Griffin Collection . The exhibition will feature a group of artworks and artifacts from among the...
Reaching Broad Audiences through Miracles on the Border

Reaching Broad Audiences through Miracles on the Border

Beyond school visits, the gallery’s bilingualism has been an impetus to reach new audiences and expand the Museum’s program offerings.
Personal Relationships with Great Works of Art | Director's Letter Summer 2019

Personal Relationships with Great Works of Art | Director's Letter Summer 2019

It is that very fact—that many of us forge deeply personal relationships with great works of art, including great buildings—that brings me to meditate now on the meaning of Notre-Dame, its fire, and the aftermath.
Princeton University Art Museum Acquires Major Cache of Drawings from the Estate of Architect and Designer Michael Graves<

Princeton University Art Museum Acquires Major Cache of Drawings from the Estate of Architect and Designer Michael Graves

The Princeton University Art Museum recently acquired a significant group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934-2015).
Exhibition Celebrates Five Decades of Helen Frankenthaler's Innovation in Printmaking<

Exhibition Celebrates Five Decades of Helen Frankenthaler's Innovation in Printmaking

More than 50 prints by the artist, spanning five decades and more than a dozen printmaking processes, including lithography, woodcut, etching and engraving, will be on view at the Princeton University Art Museum from June 29 through Oct. 20, 2019.
2019 Reunions Programming

2019 Reunions Programming

2019 Reunions programming at the Art Museum
Recent Acquisition | Mingo Boys with Water Snake

Recent Acquisition | Mingo Boys with Water Snake
Recent Acquisition | The Hidden Self-Portraits of Jonathan Richardson

Recent Acquisition | The Hidden Self-Portraits of Jonathan Richardson
In the Classroom | Minoritarian Aesthetics: Theory, Art, and Literature

In the Classroom | Minoritarian Aesthetics: Theory, Art, and Literature

This spring the course “Minoritarian Aesthetics” introduces graduate students to theories and critiques that emphasize the aesthetic or formal dimensions of art, literature, and film made by minorities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.