Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

    Exhibition | Picturing Place in Japan

    Picturing Place in Japan focuses on Japanese representations of place from the sixteenth to the early twentieth century. Three long-standing traditions of place in the visual arts form the core of the exhibition: “imagined places,” “famous places,” and “sacred places,”...
  • Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest
    Gillett G. Griffin in the galleries of the Art Museum

    Highlights from the Gillett G. Griffin Bequest

    Gillett G. Griffin, curator of Pre-Columbian and Native American art, emeritus, bequeathed more than 3,500 works of art to the Princeton University Art Museum in 2016. This story explores highlights of his bequest from several collecting areas.
  • Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    Teaching Inspires Major Acquisition

    During the summers of 2013 and 2016, Princeton University art history graduate students had the opportunity to travel to New Orleans to experience in person the distinguished Gitter-Yelen Collection of Japanese art, also known as the Manyo’an Collection of Art,...
  • The Art of Calligraphy

    The Art of Calligraphy

    The Art Museum’s collection of Chinese calligraphy may be considered one of the finest outside of Asia. Its formation is primarily the legacy of John B. Elliott and Wen C. Fong, two Princetonians who first met as members of the...
  • Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

    Echoes of One Hand Clapping Picturing Sound in Asian Art

    Sound cannot be seen, but it can be heard and felt as vibrations, and it has the ability to move the spirit through music and memory. These experiences allow the knowledge and presence of sound to be visualized in painting,...
  • Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

    Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

    This exhibition features a range of contemporary art practices that mine and reinterpret visual and narrative traditions from the Indian subcontinent. Envisioned as a conversation with Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art , an...
  • Epic Tales from India

    Epic Tales from India

    Epic Tales from India includes ninety-one paintings from the collection of the San Diego Museum of Art—tiny treasures only a few inches in dimension but outsized in their impact. In this exhibition, the main objective is to present the paintings...
  • Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

    Contemporary Stories: Revisiting South Asian Narratives

    This fall we extend our season of South Asian art into the twenty-first century by examining the continuing role of narrative and the use of traditional imagery in the arts of the Indian subcontinent.
  • Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art

    Epic Tales from India: Paintings from the San Diego Museum of Art

    Epic Tales from India presents 91 paintings representing the major schools of South Asian painting from the 16th through the 19th century. The paintings have been selected from the Edwin Binney 3rd Collection, one of the most important collections of...
  • Gifts from the Tang Center

    Gifts from the Tang Center

    This spring will mark the Tang Center’s fifteenth anniversary, and to celebrate this occasion the installation Gifts from the Tang Center is on view in the Asian galleries.