Story Archive

Story Archive

  • New Acquisition: Royal Yoruba Tunic

    New Acquisition: Royal Yoruba Tunic

    Covered with thousands of glass beads in intricate patterns, a Yoruba king’s V-neck tunic adds new depth to the Museum’s collection of African art.
  • In Depth: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

    In Depth: Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe

    This selection of over sixty European paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, books, and decorative objects, dating from around 1480 to around 1605, includes memorable images and riveting portraits of Africans, some of whose identities are known and others who remain anonymous.
  • The Princeton Maya Vase Conservation Project

    The Princeton Maya Vase Conservation Project

    Sarah Nunberg, conservator, was first introduced to the Princeton University Art Museum’s Maya vase project when curator Bryan Just approached her to treat the Museum’s Ik’-kingdom vessels. Nunberg recounts her story.
  • In Depth: City of Gold

    In Depth: City of Gold

    The form and presentation of art in Cyprus is independent of and at the same time deeply connected to the arts of its neighbors in Greece, Egypt, and the Near East. This duality is explored in City of Gold: Tomb...
  • Q&A with Sigalit Landau

    Q&A with Sigalit Landau

    An interview with the artist whose video Dancing for Maya is featured in the special exhibition The Fertile Crescent
  • Q&A with Laila Shawa

    Q&A with Laila Shawa

    A short interview with the artist whose work Refraction of Paradise (2008) is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum as part of the special exhibition The Fertile Crescent
  • Princeton University Art Museum joins Google Art Project

    Princeton University Art Museum joins Google Art Project

    The Princeton University Art Museum is one of 30 institutions recently added to the Google Art Project. The Google Art Project offers public access to high-resolution images of artworks housed in partnering institutions, which now includes 190 partners worldwide. This...
  • New on View: Recently Acquired Japanese Screens

    New on View: Recently Acquired Japanese Screens

    The Museum is pleased to announce the recent installation of an elegant pair of newly acquired screens painted by Kano Tan’yū, together measuring more than twenty-three feet in width. Tan’yū, a pivotal figure in 17th-century Japanese art, composed a minimalist...
  • Works by Gabriele Münter

    Works by Gabriele Münter

    The Princeton University Art Museum is now a major repository of paintings by the German artist Gabriele Münter (1877–1962).
  • New Acquisition: Valentine Green mezzotint

    New Acquisition: Valentine Green mezzotint

    One of the most forwardthinking artists of the eighteenth century, Joseph Wright of Derby (1734–1797) was at the heart of England’s advanced scientific and artistic circles—a friend to Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood, fellow members of the Lunar Society, a...