Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Guercino Caricatures

    Guercino Caricatures

    Guercino’s drawings, rendered with spare expressive lines, reveal the artist’s extraordinary ability to observe and capture on paper both the physical deformities and the psychological states of mind of many of his contemporaries.
  • Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

    Recent Acquisition: Crucifixion by Jacopo del Casentino

    The Museum recently acquired a Crucifixion by the fourteenth-century Florentine painter Jacopo del Casentino and a Virgin and Child, dated around 1500, by the Northern painter known as the Master of the Magdalen Legend. The paintings once belonged to Allan...
  • Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print, Masterworks from the Museum of Modern Art, New York

    Although most recognized for his celebrated paintings—including The Scream (1893)—Edvard Munch was among the most innovative printmakers of the modern era. His mastery of a broad variety of print media paralleled his rapid development as a painter in the last...
  • Pearlman Collection Embarks on International Tour

    Pearlman Collection Embarks on International Tour

    The Impressionist and early modern works from the Pearlman Collection that are usually on view in the galleries of 19th- and early 20th-century art are currently traveling in a five-venue international tour entitled Cézanne and the Modern: Masterpieces of European...
  • 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 on View: Rauschenberg Redux

    New on View: Rauschenberg Redux

    The Art Museum is currently hosting its second set of loans from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, giving students, faculty, and visitors the chance to learn more about the work of this groundbreaking artist, one of the most important of the...
  • Exhibition as Classroom

    Exhibition as Classroom

    This fall, students in seminars from the departments of Art and Archaeology, Comparative Literature, English, Spanish, and Visual Arts visited the Art Museum to engage with the exhibition The Itinerant Languages of Photography.
  • New Acquisition: Joel Meyerowitz photographs
    Joel Meyerowitz, Hills, Dusk, 1991. Vintage chromogenic contact print, 19.4 x 24.4 cm. Gift of M. Robin Krasny, Class of 1973 (2012-116)

    New Acquisition: Joel Meyerowitz photographs

    Joel Meyerowitz first started shooting color photographs in the late 1960s, both in New York City and on trips overseas, but it was his Cape Light series from a decade later that brought him national recognition. Thanks to a generous...
  • New Acquisition: Magdalene Odundo Ceramic
    Magdalene Odundo (Kenyan, born 1950, active in the United Kingdom), Untitled, 1990. Burnished clay, height 35.2 cm. Museum purchase, Mary Trumbull Adams Art Fund (2013-28). Photo: Bruce M. White

    New Acquisition: Magdalene Odundo Ceramic

    Considered one of the premier ceramicists working today, Magdalene Odundo, born in Kenya, produces ceramic objects whose beauty emanates from their voluptuous forms and shimmering surfaces. These qualities characterize the Museum’s recent acquisition of an early classic Odundo work from...
  • New Discoveries in the Gallery of African Art
    Mbun artist (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kwilu-Kongo River Basin), Woman’s skirt, before 1912. Raffia palm fiber, 10.2 x 73.7 x 113 cm. Museum purchase, Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams, and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund (2012-94).

    New Discoveries in the Gallery of African Art

    A new selection of works in the African gallery features extraordinary examples of African design, sculptures whose form is influenced both by practical need and by material and aesthetic qualities.