Princeton University Art Museum

10/19/2026

Try something new: join an artist workshop in the Creativity Labs! Coming up:
✂️ October 25: Paper Jewelry Amulet Workshop with Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura https://ow.ly/V9E850ZZ6Rq

❣️ November 1: Memory Jug Workshop with Saba Maheen https://ow.ly/n23Z50ZZ6Ro

🪡 November 8: Embroidery on Paper with Ylvia Asal
https://ow.ly/PsTE50ZZ6Rm

🌟 November 14: Porcelain Memory Vessels with Ryan Lilienthal
https://ow.ly/P9xJ50ZZ6XP

Image credits: Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura, Nathaniel Ryan Thompson, Christina Freeman, Ryan Stark Lilienthal

10/17/2026

Last chance to register for this year’s Collections Costume Contest! 🎃 At our Museum After Dark event on 10.29, collections-inspired costumes could win you some Museum swag! With categories for adults and kids, it’s your chance to flaunt your costuming skills—and your finest strut. Registration closes on Sunday, 10.25.

✨ Get inspired, find object information, and register by tapping to the Museum After Dark listing on our Events page.

Museum After Dark | Thursday, 10.29
Grab your crew and lick off your Halloween weekend at the Museum! It’s a night of free-to-all fun, with:
🎃 a silent disco
🎃 art making
🎃 a film screening
🎃 and the Collections Costume Contest

📷: Kristina Giasi
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Dale Chihuly, “Big Foot,” 1984. Princeton University Art Museum. © Dale Chihuly.
Angelica Kauffmann, “Portrait of Sarah Harrop (Mrs. Bates) as a Muse,” 1780–81. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Surdna Fund and Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Greater Nicoya (Pataky Polychrome, Pataky variety), Sapoá Period, 800–1350, Costa Rica or Nicaragua, Intermediate area, “Jaguar effigy vessel.” Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Selma Alexander in memory of her husband, Dr. Julius Alexander
Magdalene Odundo, “Untitled,” 1990. Princeton University Art Museum. © The Estate of Magdalene Odundo. All rights reserved, ACS.

10/16/2026

Reflecting on a buzz-worthy first year! ✨

Read coverage of the Museum’s opening by tapping to the Press page on our website, linked in our bio!

📹: Jacqui Hance

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Nick Cave, “Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton.” (detail), 2025. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum commission made possible by the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Fund and the Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Nick Cave
 
Jane Irish, “Cosmos Beyond Atrocity,” 2024. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum commission made possible by the Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Jane Irish, 2024 / Courtesy Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
 
Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn, “Naga,” 2024. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum commission made possible by the Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn 
 
Frank Stella, “River of Ponds II,” 1969. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Paul W. H. Hoffmann, Class of 1947, and Camille Oliver-Hoffmann. © Frank Stella / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

10/15/2026

“[The exhibition] makes for a pretty convincing answer to one of the more persistent myths around Basquiat: the idea of the young, instinctive genius pouring images onto canvas almost faster than he could think... Princeton’s answer is mostly to show the receipts. There are the Xeroxes. There are the silkscreens. There are the books he studied and artists he learned from. There are images he drew, reproduced, rearranged, and returned to years later. There are collaborations with other artists, printers, and studio assistants. There is, in other words, a lot of work.”

Read “How Printmaking Changed the Way Jean-Michel Basquiat Painted” from ARTnews: https://ow.ly/xF0150ZXH7K

And visit “Basquiat, The Blue Ribbon Paintings and the Art of Reproduction,” on view through January 31!

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Installation view of "Basquiat, the Blue Ribbon Paintings, and the Art of Reproduction," 2026, at Princeton University Art Museum. Art: © Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat, Licensed by Artestar, New York

10/14/2026

There’s always something new to discover! 🔎 Even if you’ve visited recently, you’re likely to encounter a new piece the next time you visit: objects on view in the Museum’s galleries rotate often! Swipe through to see a few new additions to our galleries, and where to find them.

Explore more in our collections search: https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/search

Shahzia Sikander, “The Elusive Motif,” 2016
📍Gallery of South Asian Art

Sol LeWitt, “Four Pointed Star” (shown here) and “Eight Pointed Star,” 1993
📍Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Gallery, Modern Art

Jennifer Bartlett, “Four Right Angles,” 1972
📍Mitchell Wolfson Jr. Gallery, Modern Art

Ibrahim El-Salahi, “Alphabet No. 1,” 1960
📍Theodora Walton William Walton III Pavilion of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Shahzia Sikander, “The Elusive Motif,” 2016. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, and gift of the artist. © Shahzia Sikander

Sol LeWitt (1928–2007; born Hartford, CT; died New York, NY; active New York), Printed at Watanabe Studio, Published by Parasol Press, Ltd., Four Pointed Star, 1993. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of James Kraft, Class of 1957. © Sol LeWitt/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Jennifer Bartlett, “Four Right Angles,” 1972. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Estate of Jennifer Bartlett

Ibrahim El-Salahi, “Alphabet No. 1,” 1960. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Ibrahim El-Salahi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

10/13/2026

“‘Clay remembers from whence it came. It is from whence it came.’ Motivated by the scholar Vanessa Agard-Jones’s insight, "Clay Has Memory" investigates how artists from Africa and its diasporas use clay to sustain the legacies of their creative predecessors.

The exhibition highlights the intergenerational lineages that have transmitted ceramic knowledge through time and centers the contributions of women artists across geographies and generations. It invites reflection on their continued innovation with an ancient material and challenges the social and institutional hierarchies that have historically undervalued their creative labor. Dredged from the earth and worked by human hands, clay holds the potential to serve as a literal and metaphoric repository of memory. ”

Read more from curator Perrin Lathrop about the exhibition, "Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa," on view now:
https://ow.ly/o9uh50ZXjYv

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Installation view, "Clay Has Memory: Creative Lineages from Africa." Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Joseph Hu

10/11/2026

Raise a glass to Eleanor Roosevelt, born on this day in 1884! 🥂 Roosevelt commissioned a punch bowl with a New York theme from artist Victor Schreckengost while her husband was the governor of the state. Known as the “Jazz Bowl”, she loved the piece so much that she ordered two additional copies, and Cowan Pottery, where Schreckengost worked as a ceramicist and designer, produced a limited edition of about twenty-five bowls with slight variations, including the one in the Museum’s collections. 

Learn more about the object by tapping to our Collections Search, and see it on view in the Philip & Nancy Anschutz Gallery in the Wilmerding Pavillion of American Art.
 
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Viktor Schreckengost, Cowan Pottery Studio, “Jazz Bowl,” 1930-31. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James Eells. © Viktor Schreckengost. Photos: Bruce White
 
📹: Jacqui Hance

10/10/2026

The Museum for All Ball is just two weeks away—and tickets are almost sold out! 🪩 On Saturday, Oct. 24, join us at the Museum for a fabulous evening of art and fashion, music and dancing, and drinks and delicious bites. Even better? By supporting the ball, you further our mission of providing access to world-class art for all.

Be a part of the celebration! Buy your tickets now: https://ow.ly/967r50ZWsyh

📷: Kristina Giasi

10/09/2026

“The Princeton University Art Museum has been home to the Minor White Archive since the leading photographer gifted his estate upon his death in 1976. On the fiftieth anniversary of his bequest, we reflect on the ways in which White’s archive and legacy have achieved unprecedented visibility among audiences at Princeton and on a global scale.”

Read more from Peter C. Bunnell Senior Curator of Photography, Katherine Brussard:

The Princeton University Art Museum has been home to the Minor White Archive since the leading photographer gifted his estate upon his death in 1976.

10/08/2026

: new Museum loading! With our first anniversary just weeks away, we’re sharing a few behind-the-scenes photos of the energy, care, and excitement that went into preparing the new Museum for opening day. 
 
📷: Jeff Evans, Kristina Giasi, Joseph Hu
 
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Jane Irish, “Cosmos Beyond Atrocity,” 2024. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum commission made possible by the Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Jane Irish, 2024, Courtesy Locks Gallery, Philadelphia.
George Segal, “The Dancers,” 1971. Princeton University Art Museum. Gift of The Locks Foundation. © The George & Helen Segal Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Josiah McElheny, “A Twilight Labyrinth (Alchemy),” 2019. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Josiah McElheny
Nick Cave, “Let me kindly introduce myself. They call me MC Prince Brighton.,” 2025. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum commission made possible by the John B. Putnam Jr. Memorial Fund and the Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund. © Nick Cave.
El Anatsui, “Another Place,” 2014. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, Fund for the International Artist-in-Residence Program at the Princeton University Art Museum. © El Anatsui. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York