“There is much to like about the new Princeton University Art Museum. It is a serious building, aspiring to be worthy of the collection it houses. It does not strain for novelty or make attention-seeking gestures. Nor does it try to compete with its contemporary peers. Its frame of reference runs deeper, and it looks for inspiration in such modernist masterpieces as J.M. Pei’s East Building of the National Gallery of Art and Louis Kahn’s Yale Center for British Art. It has been labeled, not altogether favorably, Brutalist, which has become a vogue word in recent years, but that is not quite right. It represents what might be called an Establishment Modernism, befitting a confident institution secure in its sense of self.” Michael J. Lewis for The Wall Street Journal

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