Story Archive

A Trio of Torch Songs: Resistance, Survival, and Celebration

A Trio of Torch Songs: Resistance, Survival, and Celebration

Three of Saar’s four versions of Torch Song , each created in a different medium—a freestanding sculpture, a painting on a carved wood tabletop, and a linocut print—are united for the first time in Cycle of Creativity .
Two Firms, One Team: From Outlets to Exteriors, Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson Partner to Shape Princeton’s New Museum, Summer 2023

Two Firms, One Team: From Outlets to Exteriors, Adjaye Associates and Cooper Robertson Partner to Shape Princeton’s New Museum, Summer 2023
Exhibition | Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

Exhibition | Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

The history of art is a history of grappling with tradition. Art about Art features contemporary artists who use photography and video to reimagine paintings by the early modern European artists who are often called old masters by art historians.
Exhibition | Traces on the Landscape

Exhibition | Traces on the Landscape

On view this summer at Art on Hulfish, Traces on the Landscape brings together eight contemporary artists who employ still and moving images, poetry, sound, natural materials, and historical photographic technologies to interrogate our understanding of humans’ relationship to the...
Art Matters by Eloise Schrier, Class of 2023

Art Matters by Eloise Schrier, Class of 2023

Understanding art engenders a greater understanding of humanity—it has certainly unlocked the world for me.
New Acquisition: Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks)

New Acquisition: Martin Johnson Heade’s Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks)

The Museum has recently acquired Martin Johnson Heade’s compelling Newburyport Marsh (Marsh Haystacks) (ca. 1871–75), depicting the Massachusetts shore north of Boston.
Summer 2023 | Director’s Letter: The History of Exhibition as Inquiry

Summer 2023 | Director’s Letter: The History of Exhibition as Inquiry

Several exhibition ideas long in development—from monographic presentations of Minor White and Jean-Michel Basquiat to thematic exhibitions rethinking the place of women in nineteenth-century Victorian art or offering a fresh look at early Chinese painting—are candidates for presentation in the...
Contemporary Artists Investigate Human Imprints on the Natural World at the Princeton University Art Museum<

Contemporary Artists Investigate Human Imprints on the Natural World at the Princeton University Art Museum

Traces on the Landscape , a new exhibition, brings together eight contemporary artists who employ still and moving images, poetry, sound, natural materials, and historic photographic technologies to interrogate our understanding of humans’ relationship to the natural world.
Celebrating the Career of Cary Y. Liu: Curator, Teacher, Scholar, Mentor

Celebrating the Career of Cary Y. Liu: Curator, Teacher, Scholar, Mentor

Cary Y. Liu, the Nancy and Peter Lee Curator of Asian Art, retired from the Museum at the end of February after a distinguished thirty-three-year career.
Art Matters by Alan Lo, Class of 2003

Art Matters by Alan Lo, Class of 2003

While museums continue to be spaces that inspire and provide near spiritual encounters with art, I believe they can also test limits, trigger debate, and coax you out of your comfort zone.