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Barkley L. Hendricks

Barkley L. Hendricks

Reflecting the Art Museum’s commitment to representing multiple aspects of the practices of contemporary artists, we are proud to announce the recent acquisition of a landscape painting and two portrait photographs by Barkley Hendricks showcasing the artist’s lifelong devotion to...
Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

The effort that the faculty and Art Museum staff made to ensure that we would be able to experience art the way it was intended to be experienced, to be fully immersed within the work, has forever changed my perspective...
Centering Object-Based Learning

Centering Object-Based Learning

During the period when the main building is offline, university-level teaching with works of art continues thanks to the use of off-site and on-campus classrooms, the superb campus collections, and the exhibition venues at Art@Bainbridge and Art on Hulfish.
Princeton University Art Museum Premieres Native America: In Translation<

Princeton University Art Museum Premieres Native America: In Translation

A new exhibition debuting February 5 at the Princeton University Art Museum gathers work by Indigenous artists who consider the complex histories of colonialism, identity, and heritage. The exhibition spans a diverse array of intergenerational practitioners, offering new perspectives by...
Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective<

Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Offering a broad reexamination of visual culture through the lenses of ecocriticism, environmental justice, and animal studies, PICTURE ECOLOGY: ART AND ECOCRITICISM IN PLANETARY PERSPECTIVE presents a diverse array of art historical criticism formulated within an ecological context.
Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery<

Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang on view at the Princeton University Art Museum’s Art@Bainbridge gallery

New York-based artist Kelly Wang (born 1992) combines ancient and contemporary influences to create multimedia works resonant with elements of cultural identity and personal grief.
Winter 2022 | Director’s Letter: Opportunities during Closure

Winter 2022 | Director’s Letter: Opportunities during Closure

My thoughts increasingly turn both to the opportunities afforded by the years of construction and to the vigorous efforts now fully underway to shape our new building curatorially.
Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

The recent acquisition of a group of artworks—including quilts, sculptures, drawings, and two artist’s books—through gift and purchase from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership marks a significant expansion of the Museum’s collection of twentieth-century American art.
Fall 2021 | Director's Letter: Investments in the New

Fall 2021 | Director's Letter: Investments in the New

It feels particularly important that we are offsetting the loss of the old with a lively investment in the new, not just for when construction is complete but right now.
Exhibition: Orlando

Exhibition: Orlando

Orlando is curated by Tilda Swinton and is inspired by the themes of Virginia Woolf’s revolutionary and lyrical novel Orlando: A Biography (1928), which tells the story of a young aristocrat in Elizabethan England who lives for three centuries without...