Story Archive

Story Archive

  • 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...
  • Blackness and Media

    Blackness and Media

    As early as the nineteenth century, African American cultural producers, critics, writers, consumers, and visual practitioners creatively confronted the vexed, and often exciting, relationship between race and media. This interplay was at the heart of my fall 2018 course “Blackness...
  • A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

    A Double Take on Picturing Place in Japan

    Three galleries in the Art Museum are currently filled with this prodigious output in the exhibition Picturing Place in Japan . Each gallery treats a different theme: Imagined Places, Famous Places, and Sacred Places, with a final coda of photographs...
  • Art Matters

    Art Matters

    As I anticipate the opening of Nature’s Nation , I am reminded of the great potential of art to create a shared experience in which our eyes are directed to what is lost to sight or routinely overlooked, challenging our...
  • Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

    Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

    Picturing Place in Japan focuses on Japanese representations of place from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Three long-standing traditions of place in the visual arts form the core of the exhibition: “imagined places,” “famous places,” and “sacred places,”...
  • Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

    Architects Selected for New Princeton University Art Museum

    Sir David Adjaye of Adjaye Associates has been selected as design architect, in collaboration with Cooper Robertson as executive architect, for the new Princeton University Art Museum.
  • Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest
    Mochica: Vessel in the form of a notable wearing a turban, A.D. 500–800. (2016-1073).

    Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

    Gillett G. Griffin, curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American art, emeritus, bequeathed more than 3,500 works of art to the Princeton University Art Museum in 2016. This series will explore the highlights of his bequest, beginning with the art of...