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Inside the Newly Reopened Princeton Art Museum
After five years, the institution invited the public for a 24-hour marathon celebration to inaugurate its new boxy, 146,000-square-foot home.
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The Art of Touch
An exhibition explores touch, from the possessive love of a mother holding her child to the violent and coercive contact that sometimes takes place between strangers.
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The Incredible Synergy of Toni Morrison and Alison Saar
At Princeton University, "Cycle of Creativity" sets the writer’s archive in dialogue with the artist’s paintings, prints, and sculptures.
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A Woman-Led Gallery in Princeton Puts Rest First
The Orange Door offers women and nonbinary artists of color “micro-residencies” to recharge and take a break from it all.
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The Beauty and Spirit of Mexican Religious Icons
Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States graces us with images of heavenly Mexican figures and tells stories of people crossing the border.
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Photo Exhibit Adds to the Dialogue on Slavery and American Universities
A photography exhibition on James Collins Johnson is part of a greater initiative at Princeton to investigate and give visibility to the university's ties to slavery.
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"Tortured" Artists Are Actually Less Creative, Study Suggests
In a new paper, two economists argue that artists' creative output suffers in the periods immediately following the death of a loved one.
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An Interactive Database Helps You Explore the Art of Soviet Children's Books
Playing Soviet: The Visual Languages of Early Soviet Children's Books, 1917-1953 is an online interactive from Princeton University exploring children's books in the Soviet Union.
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Rediscovering Charlotte Catherine Patin, a 17th-Century Art Historian
"I view Patin chiefly as an under appreciated pioneer in the field of women’s scholarship rather than just in art historical studies," Nicola J. Shilliam, bibliographer at the library, told Hyperallergic.