Story Archive

Story Archive

  • The Sky Is the Limit: Princeton's Happening

    The Sky Is the Limit: Princeton's Happening

    Breaking through the limits of a replay of the original, Hendricks’s The Sky Is the Limit provided a unique opportunity for the Princeton community to be incorporated into the tradition of New Jersey’s avant-garde.
  • New Jersey as Non-Site

    New Jersey as Non-Site

    New Jersey as Non-Site explores New Jersey as the catalyst for, as well as the site of, major breakthroughs in the genres of sculpture, Pop, conceptual, performace, land, and black art between 1950 and 1975.
  • Casting New Jersey: George Segal and the Peripheries of Everyday Life

    Casting New Jersey: George Segal and the Peripheries of Everyday Life

    Casting New Jersey , a website of photographs and letters featured in the fall 2013 exhibition New Jersey as Non-Site , offers a glimpse into this archive, particularly via the lens Segal cast on New Jersey’s changing urban landscape and...
  • Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

    Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program

    The first installation of loans from the Rauschenberg Loan Bank Program is currently on view. We recently sat down with Kelly Baum, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, to discuss how the Museum became involved with the Rauschenberg Foundation's...
  • Q&A with Sigalit Landau

    Q&A with Sigalit Landau

    An interview with the artist whose video Dancing for Maya is featured in the special exhibition The Fertile Crescent
  • Q&A with Laila Shawa

    Q&A with Laila Shawa

    A short interview with the artist whose work Refraction of Paradise (2008) is on view at the Princeton University Art Museum as part of the special exhibition The Fertile Crescent
  • Museum Acquires Bruce Nauman Neon

    Museum Acquires Bruce Nauman Neon

    Double Poke in the Eye II (1985) is the first work by Nauman to enter the Museum’s collections.
  • Works by Gabriele Münter

    Works by Gabriele Münter

    The Princeton University Art Museum is now a major repository of paintings by the German artist Gabriele Münter (1877–1962).
  • Shirtfront and Necktie

    Shirtfront and Necktie

    Earlier this year, the museum made an important step in strengthening its collection of avant-garde art from the early twentieth century when it acquired Jean Arp’s assemblage Shirtfront and Necktie from 1927–28.