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Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

There is an oft-quoted saying that “stories have the power to take you places”—to worlds unseen and ages long past. This is particularly true in a museum, where objects tell tales of culture and creation. As an Art Museum student...
Exhibition | Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Exhibition | Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

Miracles on the Border features fifty luminous retablos, painted personal expressions of gratitude dedicated to holy figures to consecrate miraculous events. Spanning the entirety of the twentieth century, these particular votives were offered by Mexican migrants or their families to...
In the Galleries: The Figure Abstracted

In the Galleries: The Figure Abstracted

This spring an installation brings together works from the Museum’s collections and a series of spectacular loans from private collections to consider the body as a site and subject of artistic practice in works from the 1970s to today.
Exhibition: Confronting Childhood

Exhibition: Confronting Childhood

Drawn entirely from the Museum’s exceptionally rich holdings in this area, Confronting Childhood can but hint at the complexities of representing children and childhood over a period of about two hundred years.
Exhibition: Gainsborough's Family Album

Exhibition: Gainsborough's Family Album

In the photographic age, representing our families has become a ubiquitous phenomenon, especially in an era of pocket technology that enables each of us to make and share images instantaneously. It requires our special attention, then, to recall a pre-photographic...
The Responsibility for Stewarding Collections | Director's Letter Spring 2019

The Responsibility for Stewarding Collections | Director's Letter Spring 2019

The responsibility for stewarding collections of such diversity demands that we explore both new and traditional ways of using these collections and of considering the wider visual world beyond.
Museum Announces Award of Two 2019 Minor White Archive Research Grants

Museum Announces Award of Two 2019 Minor White Archive Research Grants

The Museum has announced the award of two 2019 Minor White Archive Research Grants by the Minor White Project Committee. These awards of up to $4,000 are intended to help defray costs incurred by scholars traveling to and residing in...
Ronni Baer, Eminent Museum Curator and Scholar, Named Princeton University Art Museum’s Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer<

Ronni Baer, Eminent Museum Curator and Scholar, Named Princeton University Art Museum’s Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer

James Steward, director of the Princeton University Art Museum, today announced the appointment of Ronni Baer, Ph.D., to be the next Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer.
Peter C. Bunnell has made a generous donation of papers to the Princeton University Art Museum

Peter C. Bunnell has made a generous donation of papers to the Princeton University Art Museum

Peter C. Bunnell, David Hunter McAlpin Professor of the History of Photography and Modern Art Emeritus, has made a generous donation of papers to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Music at the Museum: Spring Concert Series

Music at the Museum: Spring Concert Series

Join us for a series of concerts that resonate with the themes of the Museum’s spring exhibitions, Gainsborough’s Family Album and Confronting Childhood .