Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Exhibition | Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black

    Exhibition | Roberto Lugo / Orange and Black

    Displaying historical and contemporary objects side by side encourages us to look at art in new ways, to ask new questions of each object and each period, and to think diachronically about how a particular artistic practice or mode of...
  • Art Matters by Emmet Gowin

    Art Matters by Emmet Gowin

    For many of us, the experience of seeing a certain work of art changes our lives. I was fifteen and still in high school when I saw Ansel Adams’s photograph Sierra Nevada (1938). That moment changed my life.
  • Commission by Diana Al-Hadid to Fill New East Sculpture Terrace

    Commission by Diana Al-Hadid to Fill New East Sculpture Terrace

    When the Museum’s new building opens later this year, a dramatic, site-specific commission by Diana Al-Hadid will rise fifteen feet above the second-story East Sculpture Terrace, its design hinting at the art collections within.
  • Growing the Presence of African Art
    A dark opalescent vase against a gray background.

    Growing the Presence of African Art

    The Museum’s new gallery for the display of African art will feature nearly 150 works by artists from Africa and its diasporas in a range of media, spanning the ancient to the contemporary and embodying the ways that Africa has...
  • The Future of Conservation at the Princeton University Art Museum

    The Future of Conservation at the Princeton University Art Museum

    Among the features of the new Museum are the state-of-the-art conservation studios that extend over two floors and 3,600 square feet, vastly expanding the conservation team’s spaces for treatment, research, and teaching.
  • New Corporate Advisory Group

    New Corporate Advisory Group

    In September 2024 the Museum launched its first Corporate Advisory Group, which plays a key role in reimagining how the Museum engages with businesses that share our commitment to making the arts accessible to all.
  • The Museum Acquires a Notable Roman Sculpture of Venus

    The Museum Acquires a Notable Roman Sculpture of Venus

    By the second century CE, when the Roman Empire had expanded to include the Greek world, copies of Praxiteles’s Aphrodite or Knidos proliferated as artists creatively experimented with new compositions. One slightly smaller-than-life-size example of Venus—as Aphrodite was known in...
  • Member Spotlight: Dexter E. King

    Member Spotlight: Dexter E. King

    Erin Scheckenbach, manager of individual giving, recently spoke with Dexter E. King, a member of the Princeton University Art Museum since 2019, to learn more about his interests and his relationship with the Museum.
  • Spring/Summer 2025 | Director’s Letter: The Return of and to Objects

    Spring/Summer 2025 | Director’s Letter: The Return of and to Objects

    Imagine, then, my delight as a lifelong museumgoer and as a museum director now in my twenty-seventh year—my sixteenth at Princeton—when, on Monday, February 10, I made my way to the new building, through its staff entrance, up the Grand...