Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

    Women, Art, and Social Change: The Newcomb Pottery Enterprise

    The exhibition includes more than fifty examples of their ceramics, as well as an equally large array of embroidered table runners and wall hangings, chased brass and silver metal wares, jewelry.
  • Gifts from the Tang Center

    Gifts from the Tang Center

    This spring will mark the Tang Center’s fifteenth anniversary, and to celebrate this occasion the installation Gifts from the Tang Center is on view in the Asian galleries.
  • Disaster and Disruption

    Disaster and Disruption

    The first gallery visitors discover as they enter the Museum, Marquand Mather Court, gets a new face this season in response to an extraordinary work of art. Takashi Murakami has emerged in the past fifteen years as one of the...
  • The British Passion for Landscape

    The British Passion for Landscape

    Currently on view in Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape are scenes of the agricultural, pastoral, and wild regions of the British Isles together with views of the industrial and mining operations that launched the...
  • Director's Letter Spring 2016

    Director's Letter Spring 2016

    Landscape and the land are much on my mind lately. Whether reflecting on the recent talks in Paris that reached an international agreement in the face of climate change, or seeing roses blooming in Princeton in December this year, or...
  • New Acquisition | Walter Fryer Stocks's Mrs. Fanny Eaton

    New Acquisition | Walter Fryer Stocks's Mrs. Fanny Eaton

    The Museum recently added to its collections of British art a captivating portrait of the mixed-race model Fanny Eaton that captures a quintessential feature of Pre-Raphaelitism: iconic representations of female beauty.
  • Film Series | Art on Screen

    Film Series | Art on Screen

    This spring a special film series at the Princeton Garden Theatre expands the investigation of the meanings of landscape in the exhibition Pastures Green and Dark Satanic Mills: The British Passion for Landscape .
  • Where Art Meets Science

    Where Art Meets Science

    “Fundamentals of Environmental Studies: Population, Land Use, Biodiversity, and Energy,” a class recently held at the Art Museum, provoked spontaneous remarks from students in front of works of art that led to unforeseen topics of discussion.