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Mexican Folk Paintings Explore Migration, Faith, and Human Vulnerability in the 20th Century<

Mexican Folk Paintings Explore Migration, Faith, and Human Vulnerability in the 20th Century

More than 50 Mexican retablos – folk paintings dedicated to Christ, the Virgin Mary or saints to commemorate a miraculous event – will be presented in a profound and timely exhibition this spring and summer.
The Modern Museum: Between Preservation and Action

The Modern Museum: Between Preservation and Action
Recent Acquisition | Nolan Amphora

Recent Acquisition | Nolan Amphora

The Museum recently acquired a Nolan Amphora, notable for its beauty, condition, and pedigree.
Art Matters by Izzy Kasdin, Class of 2014, Executive Director, Historical Society of Princeton

Art Matters by Izzy Kasdin, Class of 2014, Executive Director, Historical Society of Princeton

All visitors to museums can experiment with being at once consumers, critics, and creators of museum content, even if just in their private musings. How lucky are we that museums give everyone the access and autonomy to contemplate the physical...
Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

The Art Museum is pleased to present the extraordinary Surface Series from Currents —eighteen provocative screenprints created by Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), one of the most influential American artists in the second half of the twentieth century. This rarely seen series,...
Naming and Claiming: The Language of Indigenous Art

Naming and Claiming: The Language of Indigenous Art

What is in a name? I have spent the last few months pondering just this question as the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Research Specialist for Understudied Collections in Native American Art. The second of three specialists who will work with...
Blackness and Media

Blackness and Media

As early as the nineteenth century, African American cultural producers, critics, writers, consumers, and visual practitioners creatively confronted the vexed, and often exciting, relationship between race and media. This interplay was at the heart of my fall 2018 course “Blackness...
Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

How can paintings from the nineteenth century reflect views about westward expansion? What can a high chest of drawers from Philadelphia reveal about the trade of mahogany? How have works by contemporary artists contributed to modern ecological consciousness? These are...
Vote Today! Princeton University Art Museum Nominated for Favorite Art Museum

Vote Today! Princeton University Art Museum Nominated for Favorite Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum is thrilled to announce its nomination for Favorite Art Museum in the 2019 JerseyArts.com People’s Choice Awards.
A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

Three galleries in the Art Museum are currently filled with this prodigious output in the exhibition Picturing Place in Japan . Each gallery treats a different theme: Imagined Places, Famous Places, and Sacred Places, with a final coda of photographs...