Story Archive

Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery across the Black Atlantic

Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery across the Black Atlantic

How should our institutions represent slavery in their exhibitions and collections? Anna Arabindan-Kesson, assistant professor in the departments of Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, investigated this question this past spring together with eight undergraduate students in her new...
Creative Writing and the Museum: An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri

Creative Writing and the Museum: An Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri
Museum’s Collections at the Core of Innovative Courses

Museum’s Collections at the Core of Innovative Courses

For more than a decade, the Art Museum—through an endowed fund established by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation—has been offering grants to Princeton University professors to encourage the development of new courses that use the Museum’s collections in significant ways...
Going to Extremes: Physiognomy, Caricature, and Studies of Expression

Going to Extremes: Physiognomy, Caricature, and Studies of Expression

This selection of prints, drawings, and photographs from several centuries and diverse cultures examines artists’ enduring fascination with depicting and interpreting faces.
Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

Benvenuti al Museo! (Welcome to the Museum!)

This past academic year, numerous Italian language and literature courses visited the Art Museum to discuss Italian style and culture while engaging with original works of art. The classes varied widely in scope and pedagogic approach, and the instructors and...
Art Matters Fall 2016

Art Matters Fall 2016

Art has the power and versatility to be a plethora of different things for different people. It can be inspirational, cathartic, and ennobling. For me, it has been life changing. Art has led and continues to lead me on the...
Artist Talks

Artist Talks

The Museum is excited to present a very special series of artists’ talks this fall. The season begins with Pat Steir—long one of the most important abstract painters on the New York scene—whose work is currently on view at the...
Freshmen Draw Inspiration from Museum Collection

Freshmen Draw Inspiration from Museum Collection

This spring, freshman students explored color in a new course offered by Anya Klepikov, a lecturer in Theater through the Lewis Arts Center, and a New York based set and costume designer for theater and opera.
Art Matters Summer 2016

Art Matters Summer 2016

What is it like to be a docent at the Princeton University Art Museum? We work in a treasure house of art and artifacts illustrating five thousand years of world history. Our job is to cherish these pieces and introduce...
Light and Lighting Design in the Museum

Light and Lighting Design in the Museum

When we first met to discuss her class “Lighting Design” (THR 318/VIS 318), it was immediately apparent that Jane’s passion for the performing arts is matched by her enthusiasm for her students and the visual arts.