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Exhibition | Picturing Protest

Exhibition | Picturing Protest

Fifty years after the watershed events of 1968, the exhibition Picturing Protest examines the visual framing of collective action between 1960 and 1970 around the country and on Princeton’s campus.
Legacy Collecting and Collections at Princeton | Director's Letter Summer 2018

Legacy Collecting and Collections at Princeton | Director's Letter Summer 2018

James Steward discusses the audacity of purchasing to one's personal taste, against the market.
Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Can an abstract painting tell a story with the same persuasive power and expressive drama as a narrative scene? What is the future for abstract painting—following the artistic brilliance of Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky, and Jackson Pollock, can it continue...
Major Traveling Exhibition Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art Through the Lens of Environmental History and Changing Ideas About Nature<

Major Traveling Exhibition Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art Through the Lens of Environmental History and Changing Ideas About Nature

Reframing more than 300 years of diverse artistic practice in North America, from the colonial period to the present, Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment examines for the first time how American artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding...
Exhibition Preview | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Exhibition Preview | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Featuring forty-one works from four major print series, the exhibition is the first to focus on the vital role that literature played in the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of the print medium.
Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

On a sunny Monday afternoon at the Princeton University Art Museum, we piled plates with salad and sandwiches and waited for an artist’s entrance. We made up a smattering of people whose fascination with art blends with all sorts of...
2018 Reunions Programming

2018 Reunions Programming

Programming highlights from the 2018 Reunions programming at the Art Museum
New on View | Nelson’s Jacket and Fanny’s Dress

New on View | Nelson’s Jacket and Fanny’s Dress

A new acquisition by the acclaimed British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare debuted in the Museum’s central gallery this spring, on view through the summer.
Last Look | Clarence H. White and His World at the Davis Museum through June 3

Last Look | Clarence H. White and His World at the Davis Museum through June 3

See the exhibition Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895 – 1925 in its final weeks at the Davis Museum, Wellesley College.
Art Matters Spring 2018

Art Matters Spring 2018

The questions of what is art and why it matters are central to the self-definition of modernity and what it means to make sense of the world through the manipulation of sensible matter. As a scholar of Latin American cultures...