Story Archive

Guadalupe Maravilla’s I crossed the border

Guadalupe Maravilla’s I crossed the border

Last year the Museum acquired Guadalupe Maravilla’s I crossed the border (2021). In this piece, made during the COVID-19 pandemic, Maravilla reflects on their Mestizo heritage, combining Mesoamerican imagery, Catholic iconography, and healing practices from multiple spiritual and shamanic traditions...
Princeton University Art Museum Summer Academy

Princeton University Art Museum Summer Academy

Join us for a two-week program designed to offer high school students from Trenton Central and Ewing High Schools the opportunity to learn about careers in art museums and the visual arts while working with mentors, artists, and professionals from...
Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

Major Stone Works Undergo Cleaning, Conservation

In 2020 and 2021, the removal of more than one hundred large-scale and embedded works from the old building was a particularly complicated task; installing these objects again in the new building will also be a massive undertaking. Since nearly...
2024 Alumni in the Arts Reunions Events

2024 Alumni in the Arts Reunions Events

2024 Alumni in the Arts Reunions Events
Princeton University Art Museum Organizes Exhibition of Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation<

Princeton University Art Museum Organizes Exhibition of Modern Masterpieces from the Pearlman Foundation

Works from the renowned collection of Henry Pearlman, the art collector with a taste for experimental works by Paul Cézanne and other Impressionist and Post-Impressionist artists, will be presented at two venues in 2023–24 as part of an exhibition organized...
Exhibition | You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography

Exhibition | You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography

Curator Pilar Tompkins Rivas writes about how she created the exhibition You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography.
Exhibition | Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers

Exhibition | Cycle of Creativity: Alison Saar and the Toni Morrison Papers

Alison Saar discusses the ideas and influences for works featured in the exhibition Cycle of Creativity with Mitra Abbaspour, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.
Masterworks of Abstract Expressionism Gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum

Masterworks of Abstract Expressionism Gifted to the Princeton University Art Museum

When the Princeton University Art Museum opens its new building in early 2025, eight masterpieces of abstract painting, a recent gift from Preston H. Haskell, Class of 1960, will be on view in the galleries.
Spring 2023 | Director’s Letter: The Museum between Preservation and Action

Spring 2023 | Director’s Letter: The Museum between Preservation and Action

With the dawn of a new semester at Princeton, I’m entering the classroom again—this time to lead the second iteration of a course titled “The Museum between Preservation and Action.”
Gala 2023: The Museum Takes Shape Dinner Journal

Gala 2023: The Museum Takes Shape Dinner Journal

The dinner journal for the 2023 gala- The Museum Takes Shape.