Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Director's Letter Fall 2014

    Director's Letter Fall 2014

    One of the common criticisms directed at many art museums is that their holdings are gender imbalanced. What I’ll refer to here as the 4% rule is hard to break for an encyclopedic art museum like the Princeton University Art...
  • Director's Letter Winter 2015

    Director's Letter Winter 2015

    Over the past year, one of the hot button topics on university campuses and in certain social media circles has been the perceived threat to the humanities in higher education. The nuances of this dilemma are far more complex than...
  • Art of the Ancient Americas

    Art of the Ancient Americas

    Spanning 5,000 years and covering a vast geography from Alaska to Chile, the Museum’s renowned collection of the art of the ancient Americas illuminates the extraordinary richness of the indigenous art of the western hemisphere. The refurbishment of the galleries...
  • The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980: A Discussion with the Exhibition Curators

    The City Lost & Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980: A Discussion with the Exhibition Curators

    The American city of the 1960s and 1970s witnessed seismic physical changes and social transformations, from shifting demographics and political demonstrations to the aftermath of decades of urban renewal. The works on view in The City Lost and Found blur...
  • Director's Letter Spring 2015

    Director's Letter Spring 2015

    To be at once universal in scope and intimate in scale is an attribute of the Princeton University Art Museum that is nearly unique in American higher education—and may therefore make the experience we afford doubly potent. In a time...
  • John Elderfield at Princeton | Inaugural Lecture Series Spring 2015

    John Elderfield at Princeton | Inaugural Lecture Series Spring 2015

    Join us for a lecture series by celebrated art historian and curator, John Elderfield, on the occasion of his appointment as the Museum’s first Allen R. Adler, Class of 1967, Distinguished Curator and Lecturer.
  • 2015 People's Choice Awards - Vote for Your Favorite Art Museum!

    2015 People's Choice Awards - Vote for Your Favorite Art Museum!

    We need your help! Get out the vote today, and help your favorite art museum, performing arts center, and dance company win a People's Choice Award! Voting ends Februrary 19, so please take a moment to cast your vote today!
  • The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

    The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960-1980

    Acconci was one of a host of different actors—artists, photographers, architects, filmmakers, planners, and activists—who responded to the city and the activity in the streets. Their work is featured in the groundbreaking exhibition The City Lost and Found: Capturing New...
  • In the Classroom: Picturing Ecology

    In the Classroom: Picturing Ecology

    What can an eighteenth-century Chippendale chest, a pre-Civil War genre painting, a Gilded Age group portrait, and a twentieth-century photograph of lichen-covered rock tell us about our evolving modes of environmental perception and ecological thought? During the fall of 2014,...