Princeton University Art Museum will open its new building on October 31, 2025, with two inaugural exhibitions: *Princeton Collects* and *Toshiko Takaezu: Dialogues in Clay*. *Princeton Collects*, curated by director James Steward and the museum’s curatorial team, features approximately 150 works donated during a “campaign for art” that began in 2021, including pieces by Sean Scully, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, and Zanele Muholi. *Toshiko Takaezu: Dialogues in Clay* highlights the pioneering ceramic artist and longtime Princeton professor, showcasing her “closed forms” alongside works by her teachers and contemporaries.
The opening marks a transformative moment for the museum, which has been reshaped by more than 200 benefactors donating over 2,000 works in the last four years. The exhibitions emphasize the museum’s deep history of philanthropy dating to the 1750s and position Takaezu as a key experimental voice of the 1960s–70s, reflecting the institution’s commitment to both historical and contemporary art within a university context.