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Creative Writing and the Museum: An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri

Creative Writing and the Museum: An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
Museum’s Collections at the Core of Innovative Courses

Museum’s Collections at the Core of Innovative Courses

For more than a decade, the Art Museum—through an endowed fund established by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—has been offering grants to Princeton University professors to encourage the development of new courses that use the Museum’s collections in significant ways...
Revealing Pictures Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection

Revealing Pictures Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection

Revealing Pictures presents rich examples of photographs that are more than what they seem. The works on view are drawn entirely from acquisitions made over the past fifteen years by Christopher E. Olofson, Princeton University Class of 1992.
In Depth: The Berlin Painter and His World

In Depth: The Berlin Painter and His World

This spring the Art Museum puts the focus on Greece with the major international loan exhibition The Berlin Painter and His World. The exhibition and its accompanying catalogue celebrate ancient Greece and of the ideals of reason, proportion, and human...
Princeton University Receives $300,000 Grant from Mellon Foundation in Support of Art Museum Collections Research and Discovery<

Princeton University Receives $300,000 Grant from Mellon Foundation in Support of Art Museum Collections Research and Discovery

Museum’s important African, Latin American and Native American holdings will be significantly more accessible to scholars, students and the public.
Nationhood, Place, and Identity Examined Through Exhibition of Global Contemporary Photography<

Nationhood, Place, and Identity Examined Through Exhibition of Global Contemporary Photography

Revealing Pictures: Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection on view at the Princeton University Art Museum Feb. 4–July 2, 2017
First Major Exhibition of One of the Most Admired Artists of the Ancient Mediterranean World<

First Major Exhibition of One of the Most Admired Artists of the Ancient Mediterranean World

Organized by the Princeton University Art Museum, The Berlin Painter and His World: Athenian Vase-Painting in the Early Fifth Century B.C. debuts in Princeton March 4-June 11, 2017
Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

The current installation in the Museum’s gallery of contemporary art, revolves around two important paintings currently on loan to the Museum: Tan Tan Bo – In Communication (2014) by Takashi Murakami and The Little Star Dweller (2006) by Yoshitomo Nara.
Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

Sound cannot be seen, but it can be heard and felt as vibrations, and it has the ability to move the spirit through music and memory. These experiences allow the knowledge and presence of sound to be visualized in painting,...
Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

This exhibition features a range of contemporary art practices that mine and reinterpret visual and narrative traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Envisioned as a conversation with Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art , an...