Tag Princeton University Art Museum

Immortal Oracle: the Berlin Painter Speaks: An Interview with J. Michael Padgett by David Ebony

David Ebony — In dark times of social turmoil, political upset, and the seemingly perpetual war and violence that define our present era, it helps to consider the art of the far distant past for some solace, and a bit of elucidation, perhaps. Today, democracy seems as fragile as it

Continue reading…

Finding the City with Romare Bearden and Hans Haacke

Greg Foster-Rice– The artists Romare Bearden and Hans Haacke are not normally considered together in conventional histories of art, nor are they typically associated with urban planning. But in 1971 they simultaneously made distinctive contributions to our understanding of urbanism, revealing the centrality of the city – both its problems

Continue reading…

The Itinerant Languages of Photography: Exhibition Preview

The Itinerant Languages of Photography, an ambitious exhibition in its final week at the Princeton University Art Museum, examines photography’s capacity to circulate across time and space as well as across other media, such as art, literature, and cinema.  In the eloquent Introduction to the captivating accompanying book, Eduardo Cadava

Continue reading…

New Jersey as Non-Site: Roundtable Conversation with the Curator and Princeton University Faculty

New Jersey bears the weight of many stereotypes and prejudices, and sits eternally in the shadow of the famous city to its east, New York.  It might be argued, however, that New Jersey became a state before New York did, when on December 18, 1787 – 226 years ago –

Continue reading…