Story Archive

Story Archive

  • 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...
  • 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.