Sitting down to write this blog, breaking the routine that was so foreign to me just four weeks ago but already feels comfortable and automatic, is making me realize just how much I’ve experienced in this short time. I’m interning at the Hunan University School of Architecture in the city of Changsha, working for one Read more about Pleasant Garner[…]
All at once, rural Sicily- where I’ve been participating in the American Excavations at Morgantina for the past month- is exactly how you’d imagine it and absolutely different. There are definitely the expected rolling hills with tiny cobblestone-street towns built right into them, and Aidone, where I’ve stayed, is one of many. There is an Read more about Beth Wang[…]
A Walk on Wall Street: Incidental Art I have been in New York City for just over a month now. Long enough, I like to think, that I’ve found ease with the subways and rectangular grid (it’s roughly three blocks to an avenue). Long enough to start noticing the little things. In a city with Read more about Rachel Adler[…]
Creative Minds in Context: Cocteau, Renoir & Cézanne This past week, my family and I traveled to the South of France to celebrate my grandmother’s birthday. During our visit, we stayed in Villefranche-sur- Mer, a fishing village that borders the Mediterranean Sea. The moment we arrived, I was entranced by the seaside town—motorcycles wove Read more about Charlotte Reynders[…]
Washington D.C. is known for its numerous museums (most with free admission, to the joy of those on college budgets): the National Air and Space museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Newseum, the International Spy Museum, and many more. And while most museums operate on 9am – 5pm schedule, which is not ideal for non-tourists, I had Read more about Jane Urheim[…]
I once heard someone say that Philadelphia, stuck as it is between D.C. and New York, often gets overlooked. I’ve found this to be true – despite Princeton’s equidistance from both Philadelphia and New York, I’ve been to the latter dozens of times over the past few years, whereas I could count on one hand the number of Read more about Mairead Horton[…]
Last week I began my internship at Sotheby’s, an art auction house in New York. I had the good fortune of starting just two days before the day auction of American paintings, drawings, and sculptures, which was coordinated by my department. Throughout the week, I was able to glean a sense of how the auction Read more about Margot Yale[…]
“The best thing, though, in that museum was that everything always stayed right where it was. Nobody’d move. You could go there a hundred thousand times, and that Eskimo would still be just finished catching those two fish, the birds would still be on their way south, the deers would still be drinking out of that water hole Read more about Delaney Kerkhof’18 on an ever-changing experience with art[…]
On March 3rd, the SAB had the great pleasure of welcoming artist Patrick Dougherty to campus to give a talk about his internationally showcased body of artworks. He creates large and ephemeral environmental sculptures crafted from tree saplings and twigs. True to his humble character, he sometimes refers to his pieces as “stickworks”, which while technically accurate, belies their Read more about Constantin Weickart’17 Reflects on the Artist Talk, Spring 2016[…]
In the first semester of my freshman year, I took a seminar with Professor Caroline Harris called Behind the Scenes of the Princeton Art Museum, which was held at the museum. In the blurb describing the class, it was promised that we would at some point have an opportunity to see “a Degas pastel or Cézanne watercolor up Read more about Laura Halsey’19 Goes Behind the Scenes at the Art Museum[…]