Princeton University Art Museum - January 28, 2026
PARTNERSHIPS AND EVENTS
Face to Face & Exploring the Princeton University Art Museum Drawings Collection
Wednesday, January 28, 1PM
Princeton University Art Museum, Elm Drive, Princeton University, New Jersey
Face to Face & Exploring the Princeton University Art Museum Drawings Collection
Exhibition Tour and Study Room Session
Led by Laura Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings, Princeton University Art Museum and Jun Nakamura, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton.
Events are free but registration is required. Registration opens on January 7, 2026.
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Ahead of the opening of MDNY 2026 we are offering a special opportunity to visit Princeton to explore the Princeton University Art Museum's new building, which recently opened to the public on October 31, 2025. Laura Giles, Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970, Curator of Prints and Drawings, and Jun Nakamura, Assistant Curator of Prints and Drawings, will welcome attendees to the museum to tour their inaugural thematic exhibit, Face to Face and for a special viewing of highlights from the drawings collection in the study room.
Face-to-Face Exhibition:
Virtual face-to-face interactions have become as commonplace as in-person encounters. Prior to the advent of "moving pictures" in the late nineteenth century, the human face as a still, two-dimensional image was often rendered on paper as both unique and reproductive artworks, ranging from intimate sketches to large print editions. This collections-based exhibition focuses on the universal appeal of the human visage, both revealed and concealed. Depicted by artists across centuries, cultures, and continents and in a wide variety of media, the faces displayed in spatial conversation with each other provoke issues of identity, celebrity, and divinity while positing different modes of engagement, from gentle intimacy to emotional confrontation.
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This DRAWINGS WEEK 2026 event is organized by The Drawing Foundation and Princeton University Art Museum in association with Master Drawings New York 2026.
Image:
Left: Liu Dan 劉丹, Portrait of a Man, 2001. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund; with gifts from the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art; Richard and Ruth Dickes; and David Solo. © 2001, Liu Dan. Photo: Bruce M. White
Right: Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri), Bust of Bearded Man Wearing a Turban, ca. 1645-50. Princeton University Art Museum. Bequest of Dan Fellows Platt, Class of 1895. Photo: Jeffrey Evans