Story Archive

Story Archive

  • A Year with the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of Latin America

    A Year with the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art of Latin America

    Although the Princeton University Art Museum is well known for its extraordinary holdings of art of the ancient Americas, its significant collection of modern and contemporary art from Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America has not yet received...
  • Painting Community and Honoring History

    Painting Community and Honoring History

    A new series of portraits by the artist Mario Moore, recipient of the 2018–19 Mary MacKall Gwinn Hodder Fellowship in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center for the Arts, celebrates individuals who help to shape the character of a university...
  • Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Celebrating a Transformative Gift

    Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Celebrating a Transformative Gift

    Frankenthaler was the most prolific printmaker of her generation, and she is renowned for her innovative approach to traditional processes. The Princeton University Art Museum is honored to be among the first ten institutions included in the Frankenthaler Prints Initiative,...
  • Recent Acquisition | Our Home

    Recent Acquisition | Our Home

    The Museum has acquired Our Home , a relief carving by First Nations artist Rande Cook. Cook combines the tradition of graphic aesthetics of his home community, the Kwakwaka’wakw, inhabitants of the coastal areas of northeastern Vancouver Island and mainland...
  • Exhibition | Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity

    Exhibition | Helen Frankenthaler Prints: Seven Types of Ambiguity

    One of the most influential American artists to emerge during the mid-twentieth century, Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) is best known for her innovative abstract paintings in which she poured washes of color over great expanses of raw canvas.
  • Exhibition | Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

    Exhibition | Miracles on the Border: Retablos of Mexican Migrants to the United States

    Miracles on the Border features fifty luminous retablos, painted personal expressions of gratitude dedicated to holy figures to consecrate miraculous events. Spanning the entirety of the twentieth century, these particular votives were offered by Mexican migrants or their families to...
  • In the Galleries: The Figure Abstracted

    In the Galleries: The Figure Abstracted

    This spring an installation brings together works from the Museum’s collections and a series of spectacular loans from private collections to consider the body as a site and subject of artistic practice in works from the 1970s to today.
  • Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

    Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

    The Art Museum is pleased to present the extraordinary Surface Series from Currents —eighteen provocative screenprints created by Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), one of the most influential American artists in the second half of the twentieth century. This rarely seen series,...
  • Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

    Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

    Convened in conjunction with the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment , this two-day symposium extends the exhibition’s focus and approach to the visual cultures of diverse times and places. Seventeen international speakers offer compelling ecocritical analysis of a...