Princeton, N.J.

When one of America’s great universities sets out to build a new art museum, we expect much. Faults that might be excused in the work of a less seasoned designer, or a less prosperous institution, weigh heavier on an architect of the stature of David Adjaye and a university as venerable as Princeton. Candor, the critic’s mark of respect, is called for.

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