Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

    Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

    The Art Museum has received on long-term loan from a private collection two rare and intriguing works of art from the Early Modern period. The painting from Central Europe and bust from Italy enhance the Museum’s display and represent aspects...
  • Studying Emotions in Art and Science

    Studying Emotions in Art and Science

    Alexander Todorov, professor of psychology, recently spoke with Veronica White, the Museum’s curator of academic programs, about his fall 2016 freshman seminar “Expressing the Passions of the Soul: The Study of Human Emotions in Art and Science.”
  • Clarence H. White

    Clarence H. White

    Based on major collections of Clarence H. White’s prints and archives owned by the Princeton University Art Museum and the Library of Congress, and supplemented by loans from other museums and private collections, Clarence H. White and His World highlights...
  • The Rouge: Michael Kenna

    The Rouge: Michael Kenna

    It is with Kenna’s images of the Rouge that many of the artist’s longstanding photographic concerns—photographing under low-light conditions or at night, an interest in the strong contrast between the linearity of the built environment and the effacing atmosphere around...
  • Collecting African American Art

    Collecting African American Art

    In acquiring prints and drawings by African American artists, the goal has been to provide a rich cross section of figurative and abstract images that explore the black experience from a variety of perspectives, past and present.
  • Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics

    Hold: A Meditation on Black Aesthetics

    During the 1960s, black artists and intellectuals embraced the idea of a black aesthetic as an ideological alternative to Eurocentric notions of beauty and taste. Since then, black aesthetics has served more broadly as a site of convergence across the...
  • Earning the Public's Trust | Director's Letter Winter 2018

    Earning the Public's Trust | Director's Letter Winter 2018

    A number of my columns share an underlying theme—the ways in which museums operate in the public trust. In an age in which public trust in institutions seems perpetually on the decline, it is a happy thing that in many...