Picturing Protest Captures Era of Upheaval 50 Years Ago in the U.S.
The civil rights movement and the movement against the U.S. war in Vietnam came to a head in the 1960s, inspiring protests across the country. Fifty years after the watershed events of 1968, Picturing Protest examines the visual framing of...
New Commission by Internationally Acclaimed Maya Lin at Princeton University
A monumental new two-part commission by the internationally acclaimed artist Maya Lin has been commissioned to enhance the grounds adjacent to the new Lewis Center for the Arts Complex at Princeton University. A continuation of a series of recent works...
Major Traveling Exhibition Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art Through the Lens of Environmental History and Changing Ideas About Nature
Reframing more than 300 years of diverse artistic practice in North America, from the colonial period to the present, Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment examines for the first time how American artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding...
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 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
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
–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
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
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.
American and European Modern Masters Featured in Two Exclusive Exhibitions at Princeton University Art Museum
Innovative works by great modern artists – including Paul Cézanne, Georges Braque, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, Arthur Dove, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley and Milton Avery – will be included in two exhibitions opening this winter at the Princeton University Art...