Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art Matters Fall 2017

    Art Matters Fall 2017

    The Princeton University Art Museum has been a part of my summer for five consecutive years. Whether I was entering through the main or the staff entrance, the Museum’s environment provided me with novel experiences.
  • Perino del Vaga’s Adoration of the Shepherds

    Perino del Vaga’s Adoration of the Shepherds

    A magnificent sixteenth-century painting by the Italian master Perino del Vaga— The Adoration of the Shepherds— recently entered the Museum’s collections as a gift from George R. Goldner, Graduate School Class of 1972. One of the few works by this...
  • New Research on the Art of the Northwest Coast

    New Research on the Art of the Northwest Coast

    The Princeton University Art Museum has in its care a small but exceptional collection of Northwest Coast Native art. Thanks to a few prominent individuals and a well-funded survey expedition, the collection grew from nothing to nearly eight hundred objects...
  • Internship Program Continues to Grow

    Internship Program Continues to Grow

    Since 2002, the Art Museum has held a paid summer internship program that places undergraduates and graduate students in departments across the institution.
  • Making History Visible

    Making History Visible

    This fall, as part of a rich campus-wide initiative examining the University’s historic links to the institution of slavery, the Museum is presenting a broad range of opportunities to explore the ways in which artists represent and engage with American...
  • Rouge: Michael Kenna

    Rouge: Michael Kenna

    The British photographer Michael Kenna began his own work with the Rouge plant in Dearborn, Michigan, in 1992 as an homage to Sheeler. What Kenna has called “pilgrimages” to sites where other photographers have worked helped him develop his own...
  • Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925

    Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895–1925

    One of the most successful and influential self-taught amateur photographers was Clarence H. White (1871–1925), who rose from modest origins in Newark, Ohio, to become an internationally known art photographer and teacher. Clarence H. White and His World celebrates the...
  • The Power of Images | Director's Letter Fall 2017

    The Power of Images | Director's Letter Fall 2017

    In my view, the best public art is not simply pleasing but is also provocative and memorable, inviting us to consider our relationship to it even after we have left that space for another. Great public art should not always...
  • Student Voices: Bernardo Da Silva

    Student Voices: Bernardo Da Silva

    Bernardo Da Silva, a recent graduate in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, shares how the Art Museum acted as a catalyst to his interest in art and art history during his time at Princeton.