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Last Look | Watercolors by John White Abbott and David Cox

Last Look | Watercolors by John White Abbott and David Cox

Don’t miss your chance to see recent acquisitions by David Cox and John White Abbott, currently on view in the exhibition Landscapes Behind Cézanne —now extended through Sunday, May 20!
Princeton University Art Museum Names Bart J. C. Devolder New Conservator of Collections<

Princeton University Art Museum Names Bart J. C. Devolder New Conservator of Collections

The Princeton University Art Museum is pleased to announce that Bart J. C. Devolder will join the Museum staff as Conservator of Collections, beginning July 1, 2018.
Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking on view beginning May 19<

Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking on view beginning May 19

Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking focuses on a revolutionary period in the artist’s printmaking career, between 1984 and 1999, when Stella executed four ambitious print series – each of which was named after a distinct literary work: the Passover...
Hanne Darboven’s Address—Place and Time on View at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Hanne Darboven’s Address—Place and Time on View at the Princeton University Art Museum

Exhibition explores how the German conceptual artist experimented with the media of modern communication to disrupt cultural norms for the representation of place and time
Major Traveling Exhibition Opening October 2018 Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art History through the Lens of Ecology and Environmental History<

Major Traveling Exhibition Opening October 2018 Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art History through the Lens of Ecology and Environmental History

–Reframing more than three centuries of artistic practice in North America, Nature’s Nation offers an expansive new understanding of American art from the Colonial period to the present and will address urgent global questions about ecology, environmental justice and the...
Princeton University Art Museum Adds Important Japanese Works from Renowned GItter-Yelen Collection<

Princeton University Art Museum Adds Important Japanese Works from Renowned GItter-Yelen Collection

Sixteen major works of Japanese art from the distinguished Gitter-Yelen Collection, also known as the Manyo’an Collection of Art of Dr. Kurt A. Gitter and Alice Yelen Gitter, were recently added to the collection of the Princeton University Art Museum.
Acclaimed Artist and Poet Cecilia Vicuña named 2018 Artist-in-Residence<

Acclaimed Artist and Poet Cecilia Vicuña named 2018 Artist-in-Residence

Renowned Chilean artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña is the Princeton University Art Museum’s 2018 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence.
Museum News | The Public Art of Maya Lin

Museum News | The Public Art of Maya Lin

Two interrelated works of art by Maya Lin will be the latest additions to Princeton University’s campus art collection.
Researching the Arts of Africa

Researching the Arts of Africa

Africa is a continent so vibrant that it cannot have a single “art,” nor a single art history, but arts, with an emphatic plural and their many histories. The collection of African arts at the Princeton University Art Museum presents...
New Acquisition | Black-figure band-cup

New Acquisition | Black-figure band-cup

The Museum welcomes an extraordinary Athenian black-figure "band-cup" from the 6th century B.C. to its collections.

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Last Look | Watercolors by John White Abbott and David Cox

Princeton University Art Museum Names Bart J. C. Devolder New Conservator of Collections

Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking on view beginning May 19

Hanne Darboven’s Address—Place and Time on View at the Princeton University Art Museum

Major Traveling Exhibition Opening October 2018 Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art History through the Lens of Ecology and Environmental History

Princeton University Art Museum Adds Important Japanese Works from Renowned GItter-Yelen Collection

Acclaimed Artist and Poet Cecilia Vicuña named 2018 Artist-in-Residence

Museum News | The Public Art of Maya Lin

Researching the Arts of Africa

New Acquisition | Black-figure band-cup