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| The Art Museum Gears up for the Holiday Season |
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| As the air becomes crisper and leaves continue to fall, the Art Museum gears up for the holidays with Friends Shopping Days and more exciting fall programs. Come see the final installment of the Alaskan Film series, a special Art for Families, and an evening of warm cider and violins. |
 Late Thursdays: Alaska on Film November 19, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.
This Thursday sees the final installment of the Alaskan Film series. In conjunction with the exhibition Gifts of the Ancestors: Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait, we explore Alaskan Native life via documentary filmmakers Sarah Elder and Leonard Kamerling's depiction of whale and walrus hunting on St. Lawrence Island. The films, At the Time of Whaling followed by On the Spring Ice, will be shown at 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. and are twenty minutes and forty-five minutes respectively. A reception will be held in the Museum from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. |
 Art for Families Tales of Six Works of Art: What's the Story?
Join us for this special Art for Families as docents lead families and children through an exploration of six of the Museum's most beloved works. Sharing the stories behind the paintings, tales begin on each half hour and last thirty minutes. For a full schedule of this and other family events, visit the Museum's online calendar. There is no need to register - simply drop in as your schedule allows. |
| Prints of Darkness: Imaging Satan
November 7, 2009 - January 24, 2010
 Now on view in the Kienbusch galleries is a new installation on the dark side of prints from the fifteenth through the nineteenth centuries. These compelling graphic images, including master works by Jacques Callot, William Blake, and John Martin, illustrate the changing appearance of Satan in Western art from the Renaissance to the Romantic eras. These works, all part of the Museum's collection, allow visitors to explore artists' interpretation of Satan as diabolical iconography was made available to a wider audience with the advent of printmaking. |
 Friends Shopping Days
November 19 and 20, 2009
Continuing its annual tradition, the Museum Store will welcome all of the Friends of the Art Museum on Thursday, November 19, and Friday, November 20, for special discounts and free gift wrapping. As an additional thank you for your loyal support of the Museum, we will also have warm cider and live music as you shop. Get a head start on your holiday shopping and join us for an event that's sure to bring lots of holiday cheer! |
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Image Credits, top to bottom
Princeton University Art Museum (photo: Bruce M. White)
Punuk
Whale-tail ornament
Walrus ivory
16.6 x 3.9 x 0.1 cm.
The Lloyd E. Cotsen, Class of 1950, Eskimo Bone and Ivory Carving Collection
[1997-207] (photo: Bruce M. White)
Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635
Detail, The Temptation of St. Anthony (second version), 1635
Etching, first state
35.3 x 45.6 cm.
Princeton University Art Museum, gift of Junius S. Morgan, Class of 1888
[x1934-358]
An amazing conversation piece: the Cardboard Cheyenne liquid sculpture.
$15.95; Friends member price $14.36
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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