Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

    Rethinking Assumptions through Museum Teaching

    Sometimes, or even ideally, a University class visit to the Art Museum is designed not to illustrate course material but rather to upend it, the encounter with works of art productively undoing assumptions and unsettling students’ well-worn ways of engaging...
  • Art Matters by Abbie Vandivere, Class of 2001

    Art Matters by Abbie Vandivere, Class of 2001

    I graduated in 2001 knowing that I wanted to pursue conservation, but first I wanted to gain experience working in a museum. I worked in different areas of the Art Museum: Prints and Drawings, the Museum Store, preparation and art...
  • Increasing Equity in Art Museums

    Increasing Equity in Art Museums

    This summer the Art Museum was pleased to serve as an externship site for the Newark Museum’s internship program formed through the Diversifying Art Museums Leadership Initiative (DAMLI). The aim of the DAMLI, funded by the Ford Foundation and the...
  • 2019 Summer Interns

    2019 Summer Interns

    Meet the Museum's 2019 Summer Interns! This year's class includes students representing hometowns ranging from Beijing to Brasilia to Basking Ridge. The interns are assigned to departments across the Museum, where they work alongside staff on projects advancing our core...
  • Art Matters by Louise S. Sams, Class of 1979

    Art Matters by Louise S. Sams, Class of 1979

    I have found art museums to be welcoming places, a home away from home, a quiet sanctuary of introspection and learning, albeit shared with others. Regardless of the circumstances, I have found comfort and stimulation in museums and a kinship...
  • Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

    Michael Graves and the Art of Drawing

    The Art Museum has recently acquired an extraordinary group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934–2015). The nearly five thousand works, which come to the Museum from Graves’s estate, span the entire range of his...
  • In the Classroom | Minoritarian Aesthetics: Theory, Art, and Literature

    In the Classroom | Minoritarian Aesthetics: Theory, Art, and Literature

    This spring the course “Minoritarian Aesthetics” introduces graduate students to theories and critiques that emphasize the aesthetic or formal dimensions of art, literature, and film made by minorities in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
  • Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

    Art Matters by Andrew Brazer, Class of 2019

    There is an oft-quoted saying that “stories have the power to take you places”—to worlds unseen and ages long past. This is particularly true in a museum, where objects tell tales of culture and creation. As an Art Museum student...