As a second semester senior in high school, my friends and I had no shortage of trips to DC. After school we’d take short, 30 minute metro rides to the city, and arrive at different stops each week: Dupont Circle, Gallery Place, Smithsonian, and occasionally, U-Street. Our adventures were varied, one day we’d check out Read more about Wave After Wave – Cathleen Kong ’20[…]
I first saw the Unicorn Tapestries when I was about ten. My fifth-grade class took a field trip to the Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park in New York, a hidden, castle-like museum which displays medieval art. Our tour guide led us through the maze of corridors before depositing us in the Unicorn Tapestries Room. Read more about Unicorn in Captivity – Liana Cohen ’20[…]
In the fall of 2015, I took a class called “Notes on Color,” taught by visiting professor James Welling, who recently opened an exhibit at the David Zwirner Gallery. Throughout the class, we examined neurological color perception, philosophical color theories, and artistic usages of color. This was all particularly interesting to me because I have Read more about Laura Herman ’18 on a Close and Colorful Look at Albers’ Work[…]
As a freshman in the fall of 2013, I don’t think I even knew that Princeton had an Art Museum. When my mom, a lifelong art enthusiast, informed me of that fact and encouraged me to visit the museum, I shrugged it off. I’m busy. Museums are kind of boring. I don’t know much about Read more about Nick Peabody on Discovering the Magic of the PUAM[…]
“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[…]
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[…]
Until recently, I viewed the Princeton Art Museum through an escapist lens. After wandering the galleries for the first time in the fall, I equated the museum with intellectual repose. The museum was a timeless space where I could lose myself in the luminescent haze of impressionist paintings or in the meandering patterns of Greek mosaics. I Read more about Charlotte Reynders Reflects on a Perspective-Shifting Museum Experience with a Curator[…]
As someone who has loved art history and art museums my entire life, it excited me to no end that I would have a free museum with Monets and Warhols at my doorstep. I’ve gone to the Princeton University Art Museum more than your average student has, since I was in a freshman seminar that took place literally Read more about Julia Cury on her favorite gallery of the PUAM[…]