Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art Matters

    Art Matters

    As I anticipate the opening of Nature’s Nation , I am reminded of the great potential of art to create a shared experience in which our eyes are directed to what is lost to sight or routinely overlooked, challenging our...
  • Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

    Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

    Postcommodity’s time at the Museum as the 2017 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artists-in-Residence resulted in a sound art performance and the acquisition of N13: 31°20'50.88"N; 109°29'47.62"W , one of twenty-six large-scale balloons from their 2015 land art...
  • Printing without Limits: Frank Stella, Ken Tyler, and the Making of Juam

    Printing without Limits: Frank Stella, Ken Tyler, and the Making of Juam

    Collaborating as artist and craftsman, Stella and Tyler embraced the challenge of expanding the technical capabilities of modern printmaking with each series they made. The result was the development of multimedia prints of unprecedented scale and breathtaking complexity.
  • Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

    Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

    Picturing Place in Japan focuses on Japanese representations of place from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Three long-standing traditions of place in the visual arts form the core of the exhibition: “imagined places,” “famous places,” and “sacred places,”...
  • Museums as "activist" institutions | Director's Letter Fall 2018

    Museums as "activist" institutions | Director's Letter Fall 2018

    James Steward discusses how art museums have operated, and might now operate, as “activist” institutions by asking important questions and showing work that fosters debate and a reconsideration of accepted readings, and thus act as agents of change.
  • Exhibition | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

    Exhibition | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

    Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment tells a new environmental history of North American art, tracing evolving ideas about the environment from colonial encounters between Indigenous beliefs and European natural theology through nineteenth-century notions of progress and Manifest Destiny to...
  • Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

    Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

    Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates has been selected as design architect, in collaboration with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, for the new Princeton University Art Museum.
  • Importance of Place in Japanese Art is Explored Through Special Exhibition Opening This Fall<

    Importance of Place in Japanese Art is Explored Through Special Exhibition Opening This Fall

    The exhibition includes nearly forty paintings, prints, books and photographs, from the sixteenth through the twenty-first centuries, that collectively explore the varied meaning of place to Japanese artistic practice over these epochs. Picturing Place in Japan will be on view...