Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Monumental Commission by Nick Cave to Welcome Visitors

    Monumental Commission by Nick Cave to Welcome Visitors

    When the Museum’s director, chief curator, and curator of modern and contemporary art first sought to commission a work of art for the soaring entrance court of the new Museum, they had only one artist in mind: Nick Cave.
  • Embedded Objects Find a New Home in the New Museum

    Embedded Objects Find a New Home in the New Museum

    The first pieces to grace the interior of the new building include a number of works being physically embedded into the architecture of the facility. Their installation marks the culmination of years-long collaborations between teams of specialist conservators, art handlers,...
  • Exhibition | Helène Aylon: Undercurrent

    Exhibition | Helène Aylon: Undercurrent

    The exhibition Helène Aylon: Undercurrent brings together twenty works from across Aylon’s fifty-year career that illuminate the artist’s openness to contradictions.
  • Six Monumental Artworks Will Debut with the New Building

    Six Monumental Artworks Will Debut with the New Building

    Princeton’s renowned collection of twentieth- and twenty-first-century sculpture and other works of public art will receive a significant boost next year when four large-scale site-specific commissions and two acquisitions of existing works debut with the new building
  • Exhibition | Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography

    Exhibition | Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography

    Contemporary photography plays a key role in communicating the timely themes of cultural identity and environmental consciousness. The exhibition Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography delves deeply into these themes, offering a profound exploration of Australia’s...
  • Fall 2024 | Director’s Letter: The Role of the New Museum in Supporting Humanities

    Fall 2024 | Director’s Letter: The Role of the New Museum in Supporting Humanities

    Uniting excellence of scholarship with accessibility of presentation and engagement, the Museum is poised to be a gathering point for the scholar and the novice, each learning from the other in ways that are shaped by our future galleries, object...
  • Art Matters by Rachael Z. DeLue

    Art Matters by Rachael Z. DeLue

    I am thrilled to be leading the newly minted Princeton Humanities Initiative and excited to think big and capaciously with partners like the Art Museum about what the humanities can accomplish on and off campus in the coming years.