This Wednesday: Designing a New Art Museum for Princeton with Architect Sir David Adjaye and Museum Director James Steward
This Wednesday, join us live at 1 p.m. (EDT) when architect Sir David Adjaye and Museum Director James Steward will reveal the design for the new Museum, slated to open in 2024.
This richly illustrated talk will explore the ways in which the new Museum will
present new approaches to collections display, break down barriers to
participation, invite entry by all, and shape new ways of encountering art.
“Sir David’s architecture will invite visitors to see themselves as citizens of
a broader set of communities,” notes Steward, “which in turn, we hope, will
nurture a deeper sense of our shared humanity. The design will give us a building
that truly allows the collections to sing, fosters new modes of investigation,
and affords new moments of aspiration and inspiration.”
“The reconstruction of the
Princeton University Art Museum is conceived as a campus within the campus,”
said Adjaye, “a space of genuine inquiry where the exhibition of diverse
practices, learning as a synthesis of knowledge, and cross-cultural connections
weave together into a singular experience that encompasses a multiplicity of
ideas and peoples.”
Be among the first to explore the concepts and ideas that have shaped the new
design, and to see glimpses of the facility. Please join us.
This event will include live closed-captioning in English and Spanish.
Image credits:
Left: Sir David Adjaye, photo by Ed Reeve; Right: James Steward, photo by Carter Berg
