Story Archive

Story Archive

  • The Art and Life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho

    The Art and Life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho

    The art and life of Solomon Nunes Carvalho, one of the first American-born Jewish artists, speak to the extraordinary and unaccustomed degree of freedom available to Jews in antebellum America. His eleven paintings and photographs on view in By Dawn’s...
  • The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

    The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

    The American Arts and Crafts movement emerged full force in the years before and after 1900, at a time when diametrically opposed views of the future clashed. Many Americans believed in the power of the machine, the growth of capitalism,...
  • 2016 Reunions Programming

    2016 Reunions Programming

    Welcome back, Princeton Tigers! Don't miss special Reunions programming organized by the Art Museum on May 26 and 27 and extended hours through May 30.
  • The City Lost & Found Wins SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award

    The City Lost & Found Wins SAH Exhibition Catalogue Award

    The Society of Architectural Historians has awarded the 2016 Philip Johnson Exhibition Catalogue Award to Katherine A. Bussard, Alison Fisher, and Greg Foster-Rice for The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980.
  • Now on View: Recently Acquired Early Work by Elizabeth Catlett

    Now on View: Recently Acquired Early Work by Elizabeth Catlett

    The Museum has acquired an important early work by the renowned African American artist Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012), the fruit of a collaboration with Princeton University’s Department of Art and Archaeology that continues to strengthen Princeton’s art collections.
  • Objects of Andean Art

    Objects of Andean Art

    Ancient Andean art can be challenging to teach to undergraduates. In order to explore the art these civilizations produced, students first have to understand the complex cultural contexts.