Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Museum News | The Public Art of Maya Lin

    Museum News | The Public Art of Maya Lin

    Two interrelated works of art by Maya Lin will be the latest additions to Princeton University’s campus art collection.
  • Researching the Arts of Africa

    Researching the Arts of Africa

    Africa is a continent so vibrant that it cannot have a single “art,” nor a single art history, but arts, with an emphatic plural and their many histories. The collection of African arts at the Princeton University Art Museum presents...
  • New Acquisition | Black-figure band-cup
    Greek, Attic, Black-figure band-cup with the Battle of Gods and Giants, ca. 540–525 B.C.

    New Acquisition | Black-figure band-cup

    The Museum welcomes an extraordinary Athenian black-figure "band-cup" from the 6th century B.C. to its collections.
  • Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

    Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

    This spring, the Museum seeks to broaden the discussion by bringing together works by African and European artists that engage viewers in intercultural conversations beyond the Africa-Europe binary of discovery, influence, or “Otherness.” Installed throughout the Museum’s galleries of European...
  • On view | Photography and Belonging

    On view | Photography and Belonging

    This spring a selection of works from the Museum’s collections investigates the ways in which experiences of belonging and alienation have been both a subject and an effect of photography. Photographers have long sought to depict human relationships and social...
  • Migration and Material Alchemy

    Migration and Material Alchemy

    Working from positions of personal or political vulnerability, the artists in this exhibition provide a human context for matters of immense scope and imbue humble materials with spiritual or metaphorical resonance.
  • Landscapes Behind Cézanne

    Landscapes Behind Cézanne

    It is commonly understood that when you compare very alike things, you notice their differences. When comparing unlike things, it can take a little longer to notice their similarities—but eventually I became aware that, notwithstanding the radicalism of Cézanne’s approach,...
  • In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

    In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

    In their quest to create a new art suited to new times, many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists rejected the official hierarchies of the French Academy, which privileged epic narratives of history, mythology, and religion, choosing instead to paint...
  • Art Matters Winter 2018

    Art Matters Winter 2018

    I feel like I have become so lost in art that I think of parts of my life as paintings: Picasso’s Guernica captures best the state of my war-torn hometown of Aleppo, Syria; Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes...