Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

    Liu Xiaodong’s The Loafers

    In partnership with Princeton University’s P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and in celebration of the Center’s twentieth anniversary, the Museum recently acquired The Loafers by Liu Xiaodong, one of the most prominent social realist...
  • Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

    Azul: An Amazigh Indigenous Relationality

    Tifinagh is an ancient script used to write Tamazight that was preserved by the Indigenous Tuareg communities. The centrality of the Tamazight language is what kept the Amazigh people resilient.
  • Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

    Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

    Seen together in Reciting Women , Khalilah Sabree and Alia Bensliman's paintings take on a contemplative form of storytelling, or recitation, that draws on memories and histories to peer into the future with resilience and hope.
  • The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox

    The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox

    The Ten Commandments of Renée Cox , the artist’s first career-spanning museum exhibition, explores themes of motherhood, liberation, isolation, self-realization, and joy.
  • Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

    Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

    The painting’s frame is the “setting” that translates a two-dimensional idea into a three-dimensional world.
  • Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

    Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

    This summer the Museum partnered with Sharyse Porter, director of the health and wellness nonprofit Dawn of Hope, and Danielle Miller-Winrow, headmaster of Sprout U School of the Arts in Trenton, to pilot an intensive two-week academy for high school...
  • A Major Gift of American Prints

    A Major Gift of American Prints

    The Museum’s collection of American prints and drawings has been substantially augmented by a recent gift from Richard Reinis, Class of 1966, and Lois Reinis.