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The Princeton University Art Museum Reintroduces Its Celebrated American Art Collections in a Boldly Reconsidered Exhibition<

The Princeton University Art Museum Reintroduces Its Celebrated American Art Collections in a Boldly Reconsidered Exhibition

Object Lessons in American Art , drawn entirely from the Museum’s venerable collections, presents more than one hundred works of Euro-American, African American, and Native American art, created between the eighteenth century and today, to ask fundamental questions about artistic...
Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Study for Negro Sunshine #2 (2004), a drawing in oil stick and coal dust on paper by the American artist Glenn Ligon (born 1960), repeats across the eleven horizontal lines of its composition the letters that make up the words “negro sunshine.”
Art Matters by Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Class of 1981 Founder, Art Against Racism

Art Matters by Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Class of 1981 Founder, Art Against Racism

As I grow older, I have found a fulfillment in creating that I did not find as a lawyer; I have also grown to understand that art can be a tool to empower individuals and build community.
Membership Matters<

Membership Matters

“Anyone can walk into a museum. You don’t need to be from a certain age group or demographic or income bracket. That’s what I love about art.“
Designing the Future Galleries, Fall 2022

Designing the Future Galleries, Fall 2022

As curatorial planning for the Museum’s future galleries advances and accelerates, the Museum has brought on board New York–based Studio Joseph as partners in the gallery design process.
Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

The act of making a new museum at the heart of the nation’s fourth-oldest university is deeply important—a reaffirmation that a museum of objects and ideas can play a profound role in the University’s commitment to a liberal arts education.
Exhibition | Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks

Exhibition | Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks

Alexis Rockman’s work focuses on the malign effects of human development on the natural world—particularly for those without agency—and conjures possible futures should we continue to ignore them.
Exhibition | Time’s Relentless Melt

Exhibition | Time’s Relentless Melt

The photographic and time-based works in the exhibition Time’s Relentless Melt consider the multifaceted nature of time, which can be linear, cyclical, disjointed, or compressed.
Acclaimed Photographer and “Man of a Thousand Faces” Samuel Fosso Is the Subject of a Major Survey at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Acclaimed Photographer and “Man of a Thousand Faces” Samuel Fosso Is the Subject of a Major Survey at the Princeton University Art Museum

This fall the Princeton University Art Museum will present Samuel Fosso: Affirmative Acts , the first major US survey of one of the most renowned contemporary artists based in Africa today.
Human Folly and the Natural World Intersect in Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, on View at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Human Folly and the Natural World Intersect in Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, on View at the Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum presents Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, an exhibition of new paintings and works on paper that depict contemporary interpretations of historical shipwrecks while confronting current environmental crises, on view at Art@Bainbridge from September 24 to November 27, 2022.

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The Princeton University Art Museum Reintroduces Its Celebrated American Art Collections in a Boldly Reconsidered Exhibition

Drawn into Conversation: Glenn Ligon, Gertrude Stein, and Study for Negro Sunshine #2

Art Matters by Rhinold Lamar Ponder, Class of 1981 Founder, Art Against Racism

Membership Matters

Designing the Future Galleries, Fall 2022

Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

Exhibition | Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks

Exhibition | Time’s Relentless Melt

Acclaimed Photographer and “Man of a Thousand Faces” Samuel Fosso Is the Subject of a Major Survey at the Princeton University Art Museum

Human Folly and the Natural World Intersect in Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks, on View at the Princeton University Art Museum