Albrecht Dürer, German, Nuremberg, 1471–1528
Samson Rending the Lion, ca. 1496
Woodcut
sheet trimmed to block: 38.5 x 27.9 cm. (15 3/16 x 11 in.)
Bequest of Charles A. Ryskamp (2010-150 )
photo: Bruce M. White

Video Archive

Please enjoy the following Museum-produced videos:

Music

Listen to a concert performance of Ars Moriendi and Reliquary, contemporary works that update the tradition of personal and cultural memorialization in music. Organized by the Princeton University Department of Music as part of the Memory and the Work of Art Project.

Lectures

Lecture by Neuroscientist Eric Kandel, The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Psychology, and the Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present, MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART Distinguished Lecturer. McCosh Hall, Princeton University.

Lecture by Maya Lin, “Time and Memory,” MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART Distinguished Lecturer. Richardson Auditorium in Alexander Hall, Princeton University.

Interviews with Artists

Conversation with Christian Boltanski and Mark Stevens, Memory and the Work of Art distinguished lecture, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University.

Interview with Kendall Buster, Frick Chemistry Laboratory, Princeton University

Interview with Jim Isermann, Sherrerd Hall, Princeton University.

Interview with Odili Donald Odita, Butler Commons, Princeton University.

Behind the Scenes

James Steward, Director, offers an introduction to the Museum and its collections.

James Steward, Director, discussing the reinstallation of the Galleries of Earlier European Art

Caroline Cassells Harris, Curator of Education and Academic Programming, discussing the reinstallation of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Galleries.

Preparators installing George Segal's Circus Acrobats in front of the Princeton University Art Museum.

Special Exhibition Websites with Videos

Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait

Félix Candela: Engineer, Builder, Structural Artist

Asian Art Collection

The Art of Structural Design: A Swiss Legacy

For additional educational web projects, click here.