Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art, Literature, and Illness

    Art, Literature, and Illness

    How do artists use varying stylistic devices to narrate the experiences of illness and caregiving? When we gaze at representations of the sick, are we empathetic to the pain of others or fearful of death? How can the chronology of...
  • Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    During the summers of 2013 and 2016, Princeton University art history graduate students had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to experience in person the distinguished Gitter-Yelen Collection of Japanese art, also known as the Manyo’an Collection of Art,...
  • Exhibition | Picturing Protest

    Exhibition | Picturing Protest

    Fifty years after the watershed events of 1968, the exhibition Picturing Protest examines the visual framing of collective action between 1960 and 1970 around the country and on Princeton’s campus.
  • Researching the Arts of Africa

    Researching the Arts of Africa

    Africa is a continent so vibrant that it cannot have a single “art,” nor a single art history, but arts, with an emphatic plural and their many histories. The collection of African arts at the Princeton University Art Museum presents...
  • Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

    Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

    This spring, the Museum seeks to broaden the discussion by bringing together works by African and European artists that engage viewers in intercultural conversations beyond the Africa-Europe binary of discovery, influence, or “Otherness.” Installed throughout the Museum’s galleries of European...
  • On view | Photography and Belonging

    On view | Photography and Belonging

    This spring a selection of works from the Museum’s collections investigates the ways in which experiences of belonging and alienation have been both a subject and an effect of photography. Photographers have long sought to depict human relationships and social...
  • Landscapes Behind Cézanne

    Landscapes Behind Cézanne

    It is commonly understood that when you compare very alike things, you notice their differences. When comparing unlike things, it can take a little longer to notice their similarities—but eventually I became aware that, notwithstanding the radicalism of Cézanne’s approach,...
  • In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

    In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

    In their quest to create a new art suited to new times, many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists rejected the official hierarchies of the French Academy, which privileged epic narratives of history, mythology, and religion, choosing instead to paint...
  • Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

    Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

    The Art Museum has received on long-term loan from a private collection two rare and intriguing works of art from the Early Modern period. The painting from Central Europe and bust from Italy enhance the Museum’s display and represent aspects...