Life Magazine and the Power of Photography

Yale University Press, April 2020By Katherine Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum, and Kristen Gresh, the Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Senior Curator of Photographs at the Museum of Fine Continue Reading →

Nature’s Nation. How American art shaped our environmental perspectives

By Catherine Zandonella When landscape artist Thomas Cole visited New Hampshire’s White Mountains in the summer of 1839, he sketched the telling signs of deforestation and human encroachment on a once pristine wilderness. But his Continue Reading →

Chigusa and the Art of Tea

Edited by: Louise Allison Cort and Andrew Watsky Publisher: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, 2014 This book of essays by multiple authors tells the story of an extraordinary tea-leaf storage jar named Chigusa. The Continue Reading →

The City Lost and Found: Exhibition examines creative responses to urban changes in ’60s, ’70s America

THE AMERICAN CITY OF THE 1960S AND 1970S witnessed seismic physical changes and social transformations, including shifting demographics and political protests as well as the aftermath of decades of urban renewal. In this climate of Continue Reading →

Italian Master Drawings: Exhibition goes beneath the surface

A new exhibition, 500 Years of Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, on view from Jan. 25 through May 11, 2014, explores the mental process behind creation through nearly 100 rarely seen Continue Reading →