The Princeton University Art Museum hosts Artistic Realization Technologies (A.R.T.) and a very special exhibition of works by artists with physical disabilities. A.R.T. utilizes innovative techniques to help individuals express their creativity despite physical restrictions.

An opening reception will be held in the galleries from 6-8 p.m. on Thursday, February 25.

A special exhibition, on view for a short time only in the Peter B. Lewis Gallery, highlights programs offered by the Museum’s education department. This year’s exhibition celebrates the creativity of children who participated in the Frances Lange Public Schools program and the innovative tools and props used in the Museum's Touchable Tours for the Blind and Partially Sighted. Mini Masters will be open in conjunction with the Museum's Gala, the Black and White Ball. The annual Gala is the sole fundraising event dedicated to supporting the Museum's education and outreach efforts.

These compelling graphic images illustrate the changing appearance of the Devil in Western art from the Renaissance to the Romantic eras.

The exhibition celebrates the ongoing creative career of a great artist and legendary Princeton professor who retires at the end of 2009.

Edith and Moth Flight, Danville, Virginia, Emmet Gowin, SP2004.7, Photo: Bruce M. White

Gifts from the Ancestors is a major exhibition that brings to light the artistry and life practices of the hunters who worked across two millennia in what are now the American and Russian sides of Bering Strait.
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Life Objects: Rites of Passage in African Art features twenty-three superb works from the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African Art, the Princeton University Art Museum, and private collections. The online exhibition is now closed.

Photographers have been presenting Asia to the west through their photographs since the mid-nineteenth century, yet during this period paintings, ceramics, woodblock prints, and other forms of art have also served to document Asian moments, places, people, and events.

The exhibition presents selected works of Japanese and Chinese art from the museum's permanent collection, as well as recent gifts and new acquisitions in honor of Yoshiaki Shimizu, Princeton University Graduate School Class of 1975, the Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University, who will retire this spring after twenty-five years of teaching.

Venturing outside the discipline of art history, this exhibition presents two dozen photographs from the museum's permanent collection in response to a philosophical question posed by Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) in his 1950 lecture "The Thing."

Contemporary "Chinese" art has become the darling of international art exhibitors and collectors, but much of it looks alike to the audience and much of it is made in America. Looking at what is Chinese, contemporary, and American, Outside In: Chinese x American x Contemporary Art and its accompanying publication focus on the diversity of Chinese artistic styles today through an examination of the work and lives of six contemporary artists, often told in their own voices, all of whom are United States citizens and "American" artists deeply engaged in Chinese artistic traditions, style, subject matter, and philosophical outlook.

The recent acquisition of John Flaxman's Angels Guiding a Soul to Heaven provides the occasion to exhibit this unusually large and mystical work together with a small selection from the museum's collection of more than seventy drawings by the artist.

This installation features six works by Nuremberg-born Albrecht Dürer (1471–1528), the most prodigious artist of the German Renaissance.

The Princeton University Art Museum will be the first and only venue in the United States for Myth and Modernity: Ernst Barlach's Images of the Nibelungen and Faust, an exhibition conveying the versatility and narrative power of the German sculptor, printmaker, and playwright Ernst Barlach (1870-1938).

A special exhibition of children's art inspired by works in the museum's collections and exhibitions. The exhibition celebrates the creativity of children who participated in museum programs throughout the year. "Mini Masters" opens in conjunction with the museum's annual Friends Gala, "aMUSEment". The Gala is the sole fundraising event dedicated to supporting the museum's educational and outreach efforts.

Featuring selected works from the permanent collection, More than One explores the nuances of syntax and sense in multi-image photographic art. The exhibition and the 2008 issue of the Record mark the centennial of photographic artist, editor, and educator Minor White (1908-1976).

Recognized as one of the great structural artists of the twentieth century, Spanish-born Felix Candela (1910-1997) designed and built innovative thin shell concrete roof structures using the hyperbolic paraboloid geometric form. The exhibition examines Candela's process of design and construction through several of his most significant works.

The exhibition features twentieth- and twenty-first-century works of art that focus on the body as subject, medium, or expressive device. Prints, drawings, collages, and performance documents will be displayed alongside historical photographs that invite comparison to contemporary art through their diversity of thematic concerns and visual modes.

Frank Gehry: On Line celebrates the inauguration of the Princeton University's Peter B. Lewis Science Library, designed by Gehry Partners. The exhibition features thirty-one original drawings by the renowned architect and several models for his buildings. The sketches, some of which have never been published, represent a wide array of projects culled from the last two decades, ranging geographically from the United States and Canada, to Germany, Spain, Great Britain, and Israel.

The exhibition, organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, focuses on Jasper Johns's first sculpture, Light Bulb I (1958), and brings together for the first time the artist's light bulb sculptures and all of the related drawings and prints, including several from the artist's collection that have never before been exhibited.

Featuring twelve paintings and calligraphies from Qing dynasty (1655-1912) imperial collections, the exhibition examines the provenance of each object and considers the object within its new context, far from its country of origin.

The museum celebrates the fiftieth reunion of distinguished artist and alumnus Frank Stella with an exhibition of his paintings, drawings, and prints. Ranging in date from 1958 to 1997, the works demonstrate Stella's bold experiments with shape, structure, composition, and color.

A group of early paintings and drawings by Andy Warhol on loan from the Ileana and Michael Sonnabend Collection will be presented with works by other artists from the late 1950s and early 1960s to trace Warhol's stylistic influences and evolution.

The museum celebrates its 125th anniversary with an exhibition featuring many of its most important works selected from among the museum's distinguished holdings. An Educated Eye also commemorates the publication of the Princeton University Art Museum Handbook of the Collections, the first comprehensive guide of the permanent collection in more than twenty years.