Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

    Treating the Frames for Object Lessons

    The painting’s frame is the “setting” that translates a two-dimensional idea into a three-dimensional world.
  • Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

    Museum Launches Summer Academy for High School Students

    This summer the Museum partnered with Sharyse Porter, director of the health and wellness nonprofit Dawn of Hope, and Danielle Miller-Winrow, headmaster of Sprout U School of the Arts in Trenton, to pilot an intensive two-week academy for high school...
  • A Major Gift of American Prints

    A Major Gift of American Prints

    The Museum’s collection of American prints and drawings has been substantially augmented by a recent gift from Richard Reinis, Class of 1966, and Lois Reinis.
  • 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...
  • Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

    Art about Art: Contemporary Photographers Look at Old Master Paintings

    This fall an exhibition at Art on Hulfish presents modern meditations on canonical paintings from early modern Europe. Organized around the genres of portraiture and still life, the exhibition probes the relationship between art and image.