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| As we welcome the change of season, we also welcome Princeton University parents during Freshman Parents Weekend, beginning October 16. The Museum, located in the heart of the campus, is a Princeton treasure and a vital part of the University experience. During this special weekend, we invite parents and all visitors to discover the breadth and depth of the Museum's collections during introductory highlights tours, offered on Saturday, October 17, from 1 to 4 p.m. on the hour and on Sunday, October 18, at 2 p.m. |
 Lecture and Reception A Life in Photography
October 24, 6 p.m. Location: McCosh 10After thirty-six years of teaching at Princeton University, renowned photographer and teacher Emmet Gowin will retire at the end of 2009. To mark the occasion and to celebrate his artistic legacy, the Art Museum presents Emmet Gowin: A Collective Portrait, on view October 24 through February 21, 2010, featuring works by Gowin's principal mentors; highlights of his career; and photographs by twenty of his students, ranging in graduation year from 1976 to 2008. The lecture will be followed by a reception at the Art Museum. |
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 Late Thursdays Alaska on FilmThe Museum is the place to be on Thursday evenings this fall. In conjunction with the exhibition Gifts from the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, the Museum presents a film series on select Thursdays in October and November that explores the representation of Alaskan Native life in film. A reception will be held each night in the Museum from 9 to 10 p.m. Featured films include: |
Nanook of the North: A Story of Life and Love in the Actual Arctic
October 15, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
This silent documentary film captures the life of Nanook, an Inuit hunter and his family as they struggle to survive the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region. Directed by Robert J. Flaherty, Nanook of the North (1922) is a cinematic milestone that continues to enchant. Film duration: 79 minutes.
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Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner
October 22, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Inuit artists wrote, produced, directed, and acted in the critically acclaimed 2001 film Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner, which brings an ancient Native legend to the screen. Directed by Zacharias Junuk. Film duration: 172 minutes. |
At the Time of Whaling and On the Spring Ice
November 19, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Documentaries by Filmmakers Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling, At the Time of Whaling and On the Spring Ice, depict whale and walrus hunting on St. Lawrence Island on the Bering Sea. Film duration: 20 minutes and 45 minutes respectively. |
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Friends' Day Trip
Wonderful Westchester
Saturday, October 24, 2009
 The Museum's membership program, the Friends, continues its fall travel season with a trip to Westchester, New York. Friends will visit Pound Ridge and one of the premier private art collections in the United States, featuring a veritable "Who's Who" of modern and contemporary art, including works by Magdalena Abakanowicz, Andy Goldsworthy, Jenny Holzer, and Richard Serra. Following lunch, Friends will visit the Katonah Museum of Art to see Bold, Cautious, True: Walt Whitman and American Art of the Civil War Era, an exhibition that explores the changes that took place in American painting, sculpture, and graphic arts during the 1860s, one of the country's most turbulent eras. For more information, click here. |
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Image Credits, top to bottom
Princeton Univeristy Art Museum (photo: Bruce M. White)
Sam Fentress, American, born 1955, Emmet Gowin, ca. 1982. Gelatin silver print. Loaned by Emmet Gowin
© Sam Fentress (photo: Bruce M. White)
Okvik, Provenance unknown, Human Figures. Walrus ivory, h. 3.9-5.6 cm. Princeton University Art Museum, the Lloyd E. Cotsen, Class of 1950, Eskimo Bone and Ivory Carving Collection (1997-109-111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 122), (photo: Bruce M. White)
Katonah Museum of Art (photo: Margaret Fox)
Reproduction of these images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
© 2009 Princeton University Art Museum. All rights reserved.
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