Story Archive

Story Archive

  • In the Classroom: Summer Internships Go Virtual

    In the Classroom: Summer Internships Go Virtual

    This summer the Art Museum was able to quickly pivot in response to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19 and offer its annual summer internship program as a virtual experience. Eleven interns from locations across the globe, including California, India, New Jersey,...
  • Art Matters by Deborah Prentice

    Art Matters by Deborah Prentice

    One of the most enjoyable aspects of my job as Princeton’s provost is overseeing the Princeton University Art Museum. The Museum, with its extraordinary collections, talented staff, and generous supporters, is a continual source of exciting new projects and creative...
  • The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder

    The Eclectic Eye: A Tribute to Duane Wilder

    When does someone who enjoys living with art become a collector? I’m often provoked by this question in the face of people who have filled their homes with art and yet resist being termed collectors, perhaps because they feel it...
  • Bwa and Wé Masks

    Bwa and Wé Masks

    Two significant additions have recently been made to the Art Museum’s noteworthy collection of African masks: a Bwa buffalo mask and a Wé mask, from Burkina Faso and Ivory Coast respectively, regions under French colonial rule from the late nineteenth...
  • Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Painting

    Looking at 17th-Century Dutch Painting

    With its groundbreaking stock exchange and merchant ships plying the seas, the northern Netherlands became Europe’s center of international trade, and many of its people enjoyed unprecedented prosperity. As the middle classes grew and became wealthier, they decorated their homes...
  • A New Museum Takes Shape

    A New Museum Takes Shape

    Two years ago Princeton University engaged the services of Sir David Adjaye, his team at Adjaye Associates, and his collaborators at Cooper Robertson to design a new Museum facility, one that would meet a need that has been understood for...
  • Rembrandt's The Three Trees

    Rembrandt's The Three Trees

    The Art Museum recently acquired an exceptional impression of The Three Trees , made at the apex of the artist’s career and a year after his most celebrated painting, The Night Watch (1642, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).
  • Vik Muniz: Artist and Activist

    Vik Muniz: Artist and Activist

    Made using unconventional materials—including trash, puzzle pieces, precious gems, and even chocolate syrup—Muniz’s large-scale works re-presenting iconic images consider photography’s relation to the history of art and the circulation of popular images in the media.
  • Design for New Princeton University Art Museum Announced<

    Design for New Princeton University Art Museum Announced

    The Princeton University Art Museum today revealed the design for its new building embodying flexibility, openness and connectivity to break down barriers to participation and invite entry by all.