Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Art Matters by Adam Welch

    Art Matters by Adam Welch

    The mission of the Arts Council is Building Community through the Arts. As a nonprofit arts organization supporting artists and promoting art within our gallery and through public art, we play a vital role in providing access to the arts,...
  • Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections
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    Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections

    Each year the Museum’s Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence program welcomes an artist to campus for class visits and public presentations. Created in 2010 through an endowment established by Sarah Lee Elson—a collector, writer, and art adviser...
  • Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

    Exploration and Innovation: New Digital Tools Increase Engagement

    In 2017 the Princeton University Art Museum launched an Application Programming Interface (API) with the goal of making the Museum’s collections of more than 113,000 works of art readily available for students, instructors, curators, and developers around the world.
  • Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

    Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

    Native America: In Translation , curated by the artist Wendy Red Star, considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based artists who pose challenging questions about land rights, identity and heritage, and histories of colonialism.
  • Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

    Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

    Kelly Wang combines contemporary and ancient influences, as well as American and Asian traditions, to create multimedia works infused with elements of cultural identity and personal sorrow.
  • Barkley L. Hendricks
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    Barkley L. Hendricks

    Reflecting the Art Museum’s commitment to representing multiple aspects of the practices of contemporary artists, we are proud to announce the recent acquisition of a landscape painting and two portrait photographs by Barkley Hendricks showcasing the artist’s lifelong devotion to...
  • Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

    Art Matters by Srista Tripathi, Class of 2025

    The effort that the faculty and Art Museum staff made to ensure that we would be able to experience art the way it was intended to be experienced, to be fully immersed within the work, has forever changed my perspective...
  • Centering Object-Based Learning

    Centering Object-Based Learning

    During the period when the main building is offline, university-level teaching with works of art continues thanks to the use of off-site and on-campus classrooms, the superb campus collections, and the exhibition venues at Art@Bainbridge and Art on Hulfish.
  • Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

    Like Working a Puzzle: Art from Souls Grown Deep

    The recent acquisition of a group of artworks—including quilts, sculptures, drawings, and two artist’s books—through gift and purchase from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation and Community Partnership marks a significant expansion of the Museum’s collection of twentieth-century American art.
  • Exhibition: Orlando

    Exhibition: Orlando

    Orlando is curated by Tilda Swinton and is inspired by the themes of Virginia Woolf’s revolutionary and lyrical novel Orlando: A Biography (1928), which tells the story of a young aristocrat in Elizabethan England who lives for three centuries without...