Story Archive

Story Archive

  • A Landmark “Fancy Basket” Enters the Collections

    A Landmark “Fancy Basket” Enters the Collections

    The Museum recently acquired an exceptional basket produced by perhaps the most famous Mono Lake Paiute artist, Wutoni (Tina Charlie). This basket is thought to be the artist’s first “fancy basket”—a larger basket with more complex designs than those typically...
  • Celebrating Fifty Years of Photography at Princeton

    Celebrating Fifty Years of Photography at Princeton

    The visionary gift McAlpin made fifty years ago ensured that Princeton would become a pioneer in the study of photography; that legacy is now in our DNA and will remain at the heart of our work for decades to come.
  • China’s Objects: Opulence and Innovation

    China’s Objects: Opulence and Innovation

    In the spring semester of 2022, one of the freshman seminars offered was “China’s Objects: Opulence and Innovation,” which curator Zoe S. Kwok taught, making use of the Museum’s collections.
  • Exhibition | Body Matters / Martha Friedman

    Exhibition | Body Matters / Martha Friedman

    Body Matters presents two new series of sculptures by the artist Martha Friedman, whose multimedia practice incorporates choreography, printmaking, drawing, poured and cast rubber, mold-blown glass, plaster, wax, and concrete into works that encompass her interdisciplinary interests.
  • Summer 2022 | Director’s Letter: Renewal

    Summer 2022 | Director’s Letter: Renewal

    Seeing the campus in a fresh light reminded me of how vivid the pleasures of rediscovering this beautiful place will be for so many alumni and other friends who have been away so long—and how vivid the surprise of seeing...
  • Video Portrait Collaborative Project

    Video Portrait Collaborative Project

    The Princeton University Art Museum invites you to submit a video portrait in celebration of Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, on view at Art on Hulfish.