Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art, Literature, and Illness

    Art, Literature, and Illness

    How do artists use varying stylistic devices to narrate the experiences of illness and caregiving? When we gaze at representations of the sick, are we empathetic to the pain of others or fearful of death? How can the chronology of...
  • Hanne Darboven's Address Place and Time

    Hanne Darboven's Address Place and Time

    The work of the German artist Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), an important figure in the history of Conceptual art, is the subject of a focused exhibition at the Museum.
  • Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    During the summers of 2013 and 2016, Princeton University art history graduate students had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to experience in person the distinguished Gitter-Yelen Collection of Japanese art, also known as the Manyo’an Collection of Art,...
  • Exhibition | Picturing Protest

    Exhibition | Picturing Protest

    Fifty years after the watershed events of 1968, the exhibition Picturing Protest examines the visual framing of collective action between 1960 and 1970 around the country and on Princeton’s campus.
  • Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

    Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

    Can an abstract painting tell a story with the same persuasive power and expressive drama as a narrative scene? What is the future for abstract painting—following the artistic brilliance of Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky, and Jackson Pollock, can it continue...
  • Major Traveling Exhibition Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art Through the Lens of Environmental History and Changing Ideas About Nature<

    Major Traveling Exhibition Offers Expansive New Vision of American Art Through the Lens of Environmental History and Changing Ideas About Nature

    Reframing more than 300 years of diverse artistic practice in North America, from the colonial period to the present, Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment examines for the first time how American artists have both reflected and shaped environmental understanding...
  • Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

    Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

    On a sunny Monday afternoon at the Princeton University Art Museum, we piled plates with salad and sandwiches and waited for an artist’s entrance. We made up a smattering of people whose fascination with art blends with all sorts of...
  • 2018 Reunions Programming

    2018 Reunions Programming

    Programming highlights from the 2018 Reunions programming at the Art Museum