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Epic Tales from India

Epic Tales from India

Epic Tales from India includes ninety-one paintings from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art—tiny treasures only a few inches in dimension but outsized in their impact. In this exhibition, the main objective is to present the paintings...
Going to Extremes: Physiognomy, Caricature, and Studies of Expression

Going to Extremes: Physiognomy, Caricature, and Studies of Expression

This selection of prints, drawings, and photographs from several centuries and diverse cultures examines artists’ enduring fascination with depicting and interpreting faces.
Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

This past academic year, numerous Italian language and literature courses visited the Art Museum to discuss Italian style and culture while engaging with original works of art. The classes varied widely in scope and pedagogic approach, and the instructors and...
The Role of Art in Today’s Political Climate | Director's Letter Winter 2017

The Role of Art in Today’s Political Climate | Director's Letter Winter 2017

This winter, the Museum’s galleries are full of works that attest to the continuing vitality of art, the power of close and sustained looking, and the importance of the universal museum.
Princeton University Art Museum Announces Online Access to Vast Minor White Photographic Archive<

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Online Access to Vast Minor White Photographic Archive

Two-year project funded by IMLS provided digitization and cataloguing of White’s most important photographs and materials
Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler

Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler

To celebrate the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century visible in the United States, we have produced Transient Effects , a multimedia online exhibition that focuses on the remarkable career of Howard Russell Butler (1856–1934).
Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Grant from IMLS in Support of Collections Discovery and Access<

Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Grant from IMLS in Support of Collections Discovery and Access

Museum’s Asian art collections to be made substantially more accessible to scholars and the public.
Art Matters Fall 2016

Art Matters Fall 2016

Art has the power and versatility to be a plethora of different things for different people. It can be inspirational, cathartic, and ennobling. For me, it has been life changing. Art has led and continues to lead me on the...
Remembering Gillett Griffin (1928–2016)

Remembering Gillett Griffin (1928–2016)

Ancient Andean art can be challenging to teach to undergraduates. In order to explore the art these civilizations produced, students first have to understand the complex cultural contexts.
Adler Distinguished Curator, John Elderﬁeld, Teaches Seminar on Willem de Kooning

Adler Distinguished Curator, John Elderﬁeld, Teaches Seminar on Willem de Kooning

Building on the success of last fall’s upper-level seminar on Paul Cézanne, John Elderfield is teaching a course this fall that addresses aspects of the work of the American artist Willem de Kooning, in particular the relationships in de Kooning’s...

Story Archive

Story Archive

Epic Tales from India

Going to Extremes: Physiognomy, Caricature, and Studies of Expression

Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

The Role of Art in Today’s Political Climate | Director's Letter Winter 2017

Princeton University Art Museum Announces Online Access to Vast Minor White Photographic Archive

Transient Effects: The Solar Eclipses and Celestial Landscapes of Howard Russell Butler

Princeton University Art Museum Receives Major Grant from IMLS in Support of Collections Discovery and Access

Art Matters Fall 2016

Remembering Gillett Griffin (1928–2016)

Adler Distinguished Curator, John Elderﬁeld, Teaches Seminar on Willem de Kooning