Story Archive

Story Archive

  • The Language of Portraiture

    The Language of Portraiture

    The influential seventeenth-century artist Charles Le Brun posited that facial expressions make visible the movements of the heart and effects of the passions, while bodily actions convey passions of the soul. This idea that there is a language spoken by...
  • Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum

    Great British Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum

    British art is the focus of this summer’s special exhibition, which features more than one hundred rarely seen treasures from the renowned collection of some 10,000 works on paper in the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.
  • A Conversation with Collector Christopher E. Olofson

    A Conversation with Collector Christopher E. Olofson

    Christopher Olofson, Class of 1992, recently sat down with Katherine Bussard, Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography, to discuss the exhibition of works from his collection on view in the Art Museum.
  • Revealing Pictures Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection

    Revealing Pictures Photographs from the Christopher E. Olofson Collection

    Revealing Pictures presents rich examples of photographs that are more than what they seem. The works on view are drawn entirely from acquisitions made over the past fifteen years by Christopher E. Olofson, Princeton University Class of 1992.
  • Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

    Contemporary Reflections on the Celestial

    The current installation in the Museum’s gallery of contemporary art, revolves around two important paintings currently on loan to the Museum: Tan Tan Bo – In Communication (2014) by Takashi Murakami and The Little Star Dweller (2006) by Yoshitomo Nara.
  • Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

    Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

    Sound cannot be seen, but it can be heard and felt as vibrations, and it has the ability to move the spirit through music and memory. These experiences allow the knowledge and presence of sound to be visualized in painting,...
  • Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

    Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

    This exhibition features a range of contemporary art practices that mine and reinterpret visual and narrative traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Envisioned as a conversation with Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art , an...
  • Epic Tales from India

    Epic Tales from India

    Epic Tales from India includes ninety-one paintings from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art—tiny treasures only a few inches in dimension but outsized in their impact. In this exhibition, the main objective is to present the paintings...