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,”...
  • 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...