Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Probing Colonial Fictions with Denilson Baniwa

    Probing Colonial Fictions with Denilson Baniwa

    The Indigenous Amazonian artist Denilson Baniwa (born 1984) tries to lay these biases bare in his work, exposing “colonial fictions” and calling attention to the ongoing effects of colonization.
  • Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History

    Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History

    This spring and summer, Art@Bainbridge hosts Denilson Baniwa: Under the Skin of History , co-organized by the Museum, Princeton University’s Brazil LAB, and the Department of Anthropology.
  • Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

    Reciting Women: Alia Bensliman & Khalilah Sabree

    Seen together in Reciting Women , Khalilah Sabree and Alia Bensliman's paintings take on a contemplative form of storytelling, or recitation, that draws on memories and histories to peer into the future with resilience and hope.
  • Doug Aitken’s migration (empire)

    Doug Aitken’s migration (empire)

    Doug Aitken’s video work migration (empire) is a poetic allegory of modernity and its effects, conveyed by the actions and behavior of a series of undomesticated animals improbably placed in contemporary human environments.
  • Conversation: Victor Ekpuk: Language and Lineage

    Conversation: Victor Ekpuk: Language and Lineage

    The Nigerian American artist Victor Ekpuk is internationally known for his multimedia artworks inspired by Nsibidi, an ancient nonspoken system of communication from the Cross River basin of Nigeria and Cameroon. The following text is excerpted from an interview with...
  • 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...