Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art Matters by Robbie LeDesma, PhD candidate, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

    Art Matters by Robbie LeDesma, PhD candidate, Molecular Biology, Princeton University

    After beginning my graduate studies at Princeton, I fell in love with the Art Museum’s collections, often spending my lunch breaks and free time wandering the galleries and attending the Museum’s educational lectures and programs. These events fostered a growing...
  • Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

    Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

    Sometimes, or even ideally, a University class visit to the Art Museum is designed not to illustrate course material but rather to upend it, the encounter with works of art productively undoing assumptions and unsettling students’ well-worn ways of engaging...
  • Exhibition | Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings

    Exhibition | Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings

    It is rare for art historians or curators to be able to see the actual subjects of paintings made in the past; however, a number of Paul Cézanne’s landscapes continue to have a strong enough resemblance to his canvases to...
  • Painting Community and Honoring History

    Painting Community and Honoring History

    A new series of portraits by the artist Mario Moore, recipient of the 2018–19 Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellowship in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts, celebrates individuals who help to shape the character of a university...
  • Hugh Hayden / Creation Myths

    Hugh Hayden / Creation Myths

    For his site-responsive exhibition Creation Myths at Bainbridge House, the artist Hugh Hayden created four distinct but interconnected spaces—a kitchen, dining room, study, and classroom—that together craft a narrative that is part fiction, part history.
  • Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7<

    Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings opens March 7

    Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings is the first exhibition to examine essential but underestimated aspects of the revolutionary French painter’s work: his profound interest in rocks and geological formations, and his use of such structures to shape the compositions...
  • Hugh Hayden Sculpture Installation Examines American History and Identity<

    Hugh Hayden Sculpture Installation Examines American History and Identity

    Artist Hugh Hayden explores history, identity and the creation of the America we know today through a series of site-responsive installations at Art@Bainbridge, the Princeton University Art Museum’s gallery space in downtown Princeton featuring the work of emerging contemporary artists.