Story Archive

Story Archive

  • March 2020 | Great art can be a source of solace

    March 2020 | Great art can be a source of solace

    The health and safety of our human family—students, faculty, staff, volunteers, and visitors—is our highest priority. So I’d like to offer a few updates and insights into the continuing work of the Art Museum.
  • Donor Profile: John and Susie Diekman<

    Donor Profile: John and Susie Diekman

    Working closely with Museum Director James Steward and University leadership as we complete design and prepare for construction of the new Museum building, due to begin in 2021, John calls the new Museum facility essential—and he can hardly wait.
  • Art Matters by Robbie LeDesma, PhD candidate, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

    Art Matters by Robbie LeDesma, PhD candidate, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

    After beginning my graduate studies at Princeton, I fell in love with the Art Museum’s collections, often spending my lunch breaks and free time wandering the galleries and attending the Museum’s educational lectures and programs. These events fostered a growing...
  • Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

    Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

    Sometimes, or even ideally, a University class visit to the Art Museum is designed not to illustrate course material but rather to upend it, the encounter with works of art productively undoing assumptions and unsettling students’ well-worn ways of engaging...
  • Exhibition | Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings

    Exhibition | Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings

    It is rare for art historians or curators to be able to see the actual subjects of paintings made in the past; however, a number of Paul Cézanne’s landscapes continue to have a strong enough resemblance to his canvases to...
  • Painting Community and Honoring History

    Painting Community and Honoring History

    A new series of portraits by the artist Mario Moore, recipient of the 2018–19 Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellowship in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts, celebrates individuals who help to shape the character of a university...
  • Hugh Hayden / Creation Myths

    Hugh Hayden / Creation Myths

    For his site-responsive exhibition Creation Myths at Bainbridge House, the artist Hugh Hayden created four distinct but interconnected spaces—a kitchen, dining room, study, and classroom—that together craft a narrative that is part fiction, part history.
  • Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7<

    Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7

    Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings is the first exhibition to examine essential but underestimated aspects of the revolutionary French painter’s work: his profound interest in rocks and geological formations, and his use of such structures to shape the compositions...