Story Archive

Story Archive

  • 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...
  • New Acquisition- Marble Peplophoros

    New Acquisition- Marble Peplophoros

    Acquired in 2016, this elegant sculpture in white marble is a notable addition to the Museum’s distinguished collection of ancient Greek art.
  • Women Artists at the Princeton University Art Museum

    Women Artists at the Princeton University Art Museum

    In late March, while leading a discussion on the University’s new gender-neutral housing policy during a meeting of Princeton Students for Gender Equality (PSGE), the group, inclined to free-flowing discussion, became distracted by a question about the intersection of art,...