by lindaoppenheim | Sep 9, 2018 | Exhibit
Two relevant shows are on exhibit at Princeton University. Civil Rights in Comics, Bernstein Gallery, Robertson Hall. Open through November 15, 2018 The exhibition features two comic books: Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (1958), and March (2013-16), a...
by lindaoppenheim | May 8, 2018 | Article, Truth and Reconciliation
Sarah E. Bond answers “Yes” to the question about the role of art museums vis a vis the history of slavery in the United States. Describing efforts in a number of museums, including the Princeton University Art Museum, Bond “explor[es] exhibit...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2017 | Events, Exhibit, Video
Shown in conjunction with Princeton University Art Museum’s exhibition Revealing Pictures, director Ousmane Sembene’s critically acclaimed Black Girl explores the struggles of a young woman from Senegal who becomes a servant in France. In French with...
by lindaoppenheim | Jul 20, 2016 | Exhibit
Christa Clarke, a specialist in historical and contemporary African art from the Newark Museum, will offer a history of Western responses to the surfaces of African sculpture and will explore the symbolic, ritual, and aesthetic meanings of materials for works on view...
by lindaoppenheim | Jan 7, 2016 | Opinion
Katherine Bussard, who is the curator of photography at the Princeton University Art Museum, writes about street photography during civil rights struggle. In her book “Unfamiliar Streets: the photography of Richard Avedon, Charles Moore, Martha Rosler, and...
