Story Archive

A Trio of Torch Songs: Resistance, Survival, and Celebration

A Trio of Torch Songs: Resistance, Survival, and Celebration

Three of Saar’s four versions of Torch Song , each created in a different medium—a freestanding sculpture, a painting on a carved wood tabletop, and a linocut print—are united for the first time in Cycle of Creativity .
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...
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.
Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

Colony / Dor Guez presents work by the Jerusalem-born artist Dor Guez that explores the layered identities of the city of his birth.
Exhibition | Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks

Exhibition | Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks

Alexis Rockman’s work focuses on the malign effects of human development on the natural world—particularly for those without agency—and conjures possible futures should we continue to ignore them.
Mario Moore’s The Great Reckoning | Installed in Robertson Hall

Mario Moore’s The Great Reckoning | Installed in Robertson Hall

In Mario Moore’s monumental work The Great Reckoning (2020–21), which was recently installed in the lobby of Robertson Hall, the artist calls on the familiar symbolism of history painting to expand the presence of Black narratives in public spaces.
Exhibition | Witness / Rose B. Simpson

Exhibition | Witness / Rose B. Simpson

The following text is excerpted from an interview with the artist, Rose B. Simpson, conducted by Curator Bryan R. Just.
Exhibition | Body Matters / Martha Friedman

Exhibition | Body Matters / Martha Friedman

Body Matters presents two new series of sculptures by the artist Martha Friedman, whose multimedia practice incorporates choreography, printmaking, drawing, poured and cast rubber, mold-blown glass, plaster, wax, and concrete into works that encompass her interdisciplinary interests.
Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

Historical representations of Native North Americans by non-Native artists, often reflecting ethnographic stereotypes and tainted by histories of scientific racism, have long saturated the visual field while failing to offer accurate and nuanced portraits of Indigeneity in American history and...