Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art Matters

    Art Matters

    I don’t know where inspiration comes from, but it is essential for scientific discovery, and we will take it wherever we can find it.
  • Art, Literature, and Illness

    Art, Literature, and Illness

    How do artists use varying stylistic devices to narrate the experiences of illness and caregiving? When we gaze at representations of the sick, are we empathetic to the pain of others or fearful of death? How can the chronology of...
  • Hanne Darboven's Address Place and Time

    Hanne Darboven's Address Place and Time

    The work of the German artist Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), an important figure in the history of Conceptual art, is the subject of a focused exhibition at the Museum.
  • Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    During the summers of 2013 and 2016, Princeton University art history graduate students had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to experience in person the distinguished Gitter-Yelen Collection of Japanese art, also known as the Manyo’an Collection of Art,...
  • Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

    Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

    Can an abstract painting tell a story with the same persuasive power and expressive drama as a narrative scene? What is the future for abstract painting—following the artistic brilliance of Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky, and Jackson Pollock, can it continue...
  • Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

    Lunch with Cecilia Vicuña, Princeton’s New International Artist-in-Residence

    On a sunny Monday afternoon at the Princeton University Art Museum, we piled plates with salad and sandwiches and waited for an artist’s entrance. We made up a smattering of people whose fascination with art blends with all sorts of...
  • 2018 Reunions Programming

    2018 Reunions Programming

    Programming highlights from the 2018 Reunions programming at the Art Museum
  • Art Matters Spring 2018

    Art Matters Spring 2018

    The questions of what is art and why it matters are central to the self-definition of modernity and what it means to make sense of the world through the manipulation of sensible matter. As a scholar of Latin American cultures...
  • Migration and Material Alchemy

    Migration and Material Alchemy

    Working from positions of personal or political vulnerability, the artists in this exhibition provide a human context for matters of immense scope and imbue humble materials with spiritual or metaphorical resonance.