Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

    Spring 2024 | Director's Letter: Rediscovering Old Friends in New Settings

    All of this is a precursor to what awaits us in Princeton’s own galleries when they open next year. How exciting to rediscover old friends in new settings—in the company of equally familiar works or accompanied by chronologically or culturally...
  • Summer 2023 | Director’s Letter: The History of Exhibition as Inquiry

    Summer 2023 | Director’s Letter: The History of Exhibition as Inquiry

    Several exhibition ideas long in development—from monographic presentations of Minor White and Jean-Michel Basquiat to thematic exhibitions rethinking the place of women in nineteenth-century Victorian art or offering a fresh look at early Chinese painting—are candidates for presentation in the...
  • Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

    Winter 2023 | Director’s Letter: Fresh Eyes and Minds

    Fresh eyes and minds are posing new questions that can lead us to discover that a beloved object isn’t quite what we thought it was, or equally that an object long relegated to storage is actually exemplary of its type...
  • Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

    Fall 2022 | Director’s Letter: Making and Remaking the Museum

    The act of making a new museum at the heart of the nation’s fourth-oldest university is deeply important—a reaffirmation that a museum of objects and ideas can play a profound role in the University’s commitment to a liberal arts education.
  • Summer 2022 | Director’s Letter: Renewal

    Summer 2022 | Director’s Letter: Renewal

    Seeing the campus in a fresh light reminded me of how vivid the pleasures of rediscovering this beautiful place will be for so many alumni and other friends who have been away so long—and how vivid the surprise of seeing...
  • Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

    Spring 2022 | Director’s Letter: Putting Art in the Path of Everyday Life

    How do we do this without a proper museum during the next few years? Well, we start by working creatively. We shape gallery installations in two downtown Princeton venues, each of them with exhibitions chosen for their potential to forge...