Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

    Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

    The recent acquisition of a group of artworks—including quilts, sculptures, drawings, and two artist’s books—through gift and purchase from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership marks a significant expansion of the Museum’s collection of twentieth-century American art.
  • Exhibition: Orlando

    Exhibition: Orlando

    Orlando is curated by Tilda Swinton and is inspired by the themes of Virginia Woolf’s revolutionary and lyrical novel Orlando: A Biography (1928), which tells the story of a young aristocrat in Elizabethan England who lives for three centuries without...
  • Campus Collections Outdoor Walking Tours

    Campus Collections Outdoor Walking Tours

    Join a free guided walking tour of the campus collections with a Museum tour and discover a variety of artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Henry Moore to Maya Lin.
  • Art Matters by Yifu Liu, PhD student, Department of Art & Archaeology

    Art Matters by Yifu Liu, PhD student, Department of Art & Archaeology

    How does art survive in a pandemic? How does art help us survive as we deal with the painful realities of racial injustice and political turmoil? These are two of the questions I was considering as I began my McCrindle...
  • Museum Pilots New Schools Program

    Museum Pilots New Schools Program

    The education staff worked to create inquiry-based teaching modules targeted to elementary, middle, and high school students while the Museum is closed during construction.
  • Graduate Voices for the New Museum

    Graduate Voices for the New Museum

    This past academic year Princeton students have orchestrated dialogues about the necessity of equity, collaboration, and transparency across campus and around the world. These conversations have shown that inclusive discourse, when combined with structural transformation, can result in meaningful institutional...
  • Art Matters by Ben Stout, Atelier Art Service

    Art Matters by Ben Stout, Atelier Art Service

    For the past nine months, I have been part of a team of art handlers and registrars occupied with the task of temporarily relocating nearly all of the artworks in the Princeton University Art Museum. . . . In the...
  • Art Matters by Shelby Kinch '22

    Art Matters by Shelby Kinch '22

    As a member of SAB over the past two years, I have seen firsthand the ways that art can bring us together, even in unprecedented circumstances.