Like many past summers, I’ve spent the past few months in the heart of New York. But for the first time, I ventured out to visit Mass MoCA! I drove up to North Adams, Massachusetts one Saturday morning at 8am. It’s a winding path through the Taconic State Parkway with stunning views of the Hudson Read more about Art & Socio-Politics at the Mass MoCA – Sarah Cho ’18[…]
New York City is full of some of the world’s best museums and greatest art. The visit or experience I want to share, however, is not of a trip to The MET, MOMA, or The Whitney, but rather to a more solemn, but nevertheless artistic, site: the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. Growing up in New Read more about The Art of Remembrance – Nick Peabody ’18[…]
When I used to think of Greece, it came in a package: “Ancient Greece and Rome.” My lifetime of museum-based travels, combined with Princeton’s year-long Western literature course the Humanities Sequence, had tied the concept of Greece firmly to its past. When I read about the country’s economic troubles or and influx of migrants Read more about Beyond Art: A Different Side of Greece – Alice Maiden ’19[…]
For the past two months, I’ve been reporting and writing about South Asian migrants in Italy. The project has taken me to three different cities: Udine (a small town in the northeastern Friuli Venezia Giulia region marked by a distinct Austrian flavor), Milan, and Rome. I spent the majority of my time in the Italian Read more about An Awe-Inspiring Look at the Vatican Museum – Mohammad Adnan ’19[…]
Glass appears as liquid light as swirls of color meld in gravity defying shapes. Dale Chihuly’s Glass Forest is electrifying, an experiment created by blowing molten glass dropped from a stepladder. The glass that pools at the bottom has the most visual weight. Still, the eye is drawn to the bright stalks that seem to Read more about Every Color is Beautiful: Chihuly Glass and Garden – Sonia Hashim ’18[…]
This summer I am proudly working at the National Museum of American Jewish History to help run its internship program (composed of 22 interns!) and to conduct research on the cost-effectiveness of internship programs for cultural nonprofits in comparison to those in the private sector. When people have asked me what I am doing this Read more about Museums are for Everyone! – Saying Shalom to my Summer in a Jewish Museum – Delaney Kerkhof ’18[…]
The city of Pula is similar to many other Croatian coastal locales, with sun-dried orange rooftops, a harbor full of fishing boats, and the Adriatic breeze whistling through alleyways in early morning. Most major cities in Croatia have an “Old Town” that boasts historical monuments and cultural artifacts within bygone city walls. Dubrovnik for example, Read more about Rocks and Rock: The Pula Coliseum – Cathleen Kong ’20[…]
Thin lips peeled back in a roar reveal a rigid tongue and canine teeth. Swollen, bulging eyes leap outward as if the sockets simply cannot hold anything more than the ceaseless torrent of tears. The chin clenches and trembles in extreme sorrow. The nostrils flare like two dark tunnels. Even the handkerchief poised by Read more about The Tooth is a Tooth – Liana Cohen ’20 in Toledo, Spain[…]
Most art enthusiasts who venture to New York City’s Meatpacking District have their sights set on the Whitney Museum, which boasts a staggering collection of 20th-century and contemporary American art. But last week, as my sister and I wandered the side streets of the industrial neighborhood, we had another destination in mind. A few days Read more about A Gallery of Groceries: Lucy Sparrow’s Felt Art Pop-Up Shop – Charlotte Reynders ’19[…]
The students of the 2017 Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies Global Seminar in Moscow were fortunate enough to visit the city’s Tretyakov gallery of Russian art during their first week of the class. The Tretyakov started as a private collection that was granted to the Russian nation at the end of the 19th Read more about Hannah Waxman ’19 visits the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow![…]