Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Disaster and Disruption

    Disaster and Disruption

    The first gallery visitors discover as they enter the Museum, Marquand Mather Court, gets a new face this season in response to an extraordinary work of art. Takashi Murakami has emerged in the past fifteen years as one of the...
  • Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations

    Ursula von Rydingsvard and Others: Materials and Manipulations

    For decades, the sculptor Ursula von Rydingsvard has explored organic and inorganic materials, the familiar and the unfamiliar. The works by von Rydingsvard on view illustrate a concern for the aesthetic potential and emotional power of materials that is shared...
  • A New Commission by Ursula von Rydingsvard

    A New Commission by Ursula von Rydingsvard

    An exceptional sculpture by Ursula von Rydingsvard has been commissioned to highlight the entrance to the new Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment at Princeton University.
  • El Anatsui's "Another Place"

    El Anatsui's "Another Place"

    On the eve of the arrival at Princeton of El Anatsui, our 2014–2015 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence, the Museum purchased an extraordinary recent work by the artist: Another Place (2014).
  • Collecting Contemporary, 1960-2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection

    Collecting Contemporary, 1960-2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection

    Collecting Contemporary, 1960–2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection features paintings, drawings, and photographs acquired by Lenore and Herbert Schorr, Graduate School Class of 1963, over the last forty-five years. Created by a range of pioneering artists, these works serve as...
  • Major New Sculpture Installed at Museum Entrance

    Major New Sculpture Installed at Museum Entrance

    The Museum’s front lawn has been home to a number of compelling works of art. Now the lawn is the site of a new commission designed especially for the site by Doug and Mike Starn.
  • El Anatsui at Princeton

    El Anatsui at Princeton

    Join us for a conversation between influential Ghanaian artist El Anatsui and Chika Okeke-Agulu, associate professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology. This public program takes place during Anatsui’s tenure as the 2015 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984,...
  • New York Times praises Lee Bontecou exhibition at Princeton

    New York Times praises Lee Bontecou exhibition at Princeton

    “'Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds,' at the Princeton University Art Museum, is as stimulating an exhibition of works on paper as you might expect from an artist known for “drawing” with a blowtorch," says Karen Rosenberg in her review of Lee...
  • Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds

    Lee Bontecou: Drawn Worlds

    Though Lee Bontecou is best known for her three-dimensional work, drawing has always been an equally important component of her artistic practice. Calling her drawings “worldscapes,” Bontecou has produced an incredible body of work that propels us into fantastic spaces...