Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Making History Visible

    Making History Visible

    This fall, as part of a rich campus-wide initiative examining the University’s historic links to the institution of slavery, the Museum is presenting a broad range of opportunities to explore the ways in which artists represent and engage with American...
  • Student Voices: Bernardo Da Silva

    Student Voices: Bernardo Da Silva

    Bernardo Da Silva, a recent graduate in Molecular Biology at Princeton University, shares how the Art Museum acted as a catalyst to his interest in art and art history during his time at Princeton.
  • Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery across the Black Atlantic

    Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery across the Black Atlantic

    How should our institutions represent slavery in their exhibitions and collections? Anna Arabindan-Kesson, assistant professor in the departments of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, investigated this question this past spring together with eight undergraduate students in her new...
  • Museum’s Collections at the Core of Innovative Courses

    Museum’s Collections at the Core of Innovative Courses

    For more than a decade, the Art Museum—through an endowed fund established by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—has been offering grants to Princeton University professors to encourage the development of new courses that use the Museum’s collections in significant ways...
  • Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

    Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

    This past academic year, numerous Italian language and literature courses visited the Art Museum to discuss Italian style and culture while engaging with original works of art. The classes varied widely in scope and pedagogic approach, and the instructors and...
  • Art Matters Fall 2016

    Art Matters Fall 2016

    Art has the power and versatility to be a plethora of different things for different people. It can be inspirational, cathartic, and ennobling. For me, it has been life changing. Art has led and continues to lead me on the...
  • Artist Talks

    Artist Talks

    The Museum is excited to present a very special series of artists’ talks this fall. The season begins with Pat Steir—long one of the most important abstract painters on the New York scene—whose work is currently on view at the...
  • Freshmen Draw Inspiration from Museum Collection

    Freshmen Draw Inspiration from Museum Collection

    This spring, freshman students explored color in a new course offered by Anya Klepikov, a lecturer in Theater through the Lewis Arts Center, and a New York based set and costume designer for theater and opera.