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 Failed Love -- Broken Heart. Great Art.February 11, 7 - 10 p.m.
Heartbreak can be a great muse. Whether you are happily in love, boycotting it forever, or somewhere in between, come share your pain with Frida Kahlo, Vincent van Gogh, singers, songwriters, poets, and "just" friends at Failed Love, an anti-Valentine's event. You might not be looking for a relationship right now, but anyone can commit to chocolate, cynicism, and art. The Art Museum's Student Advisory Board (who love you but aren't in love with you) invites you to drown your pain in dark and twisty refreshments and mend your broken heart with great art.
Be Late. It's Fate. |
 The Art Museum Dresses Up for the
Black and White Ball
Art patrons, Friends, and other community members will gather this Saturday, February 6, for the Museum's annual gala -- the Black and White Ball! Inspired by the Museum's outstanding collection of Abstract Expressionist painting and Truman Capote's legendary 1966s Party of the Century, the Gala is presented by the Friends and is the Museum's major annual fundraising event, raising essential support for the Museum's educational and outreach programs.
Open in conjunction with the Gala is Mini Masters, a special installation in the Peter B. Lewis Gallery that highlights programs offered by the Museum's Education Department. This year we celebrate the creativity of children who participated in the Frances Lange Public Schools Program, as well as the innovative tools used in the Museum's new Touchable Tours for the Blind and Partially Sighted. Mini Masters is on view through February 7. |
 Exhibition Opening and Gallery Talk
Opening on Saturday, February 20, The Making of a Masterpiece: Nosadella's Annunciation reveals the artistic processes of Italian Mannerist painter of Nosadella through an in-depth exploration of one of his great masterworks. Preparatory drawings, x-radiographs, and other works by the artist trace his process from initial composition to finished masterpiece. Join us on February 19 at 12:30 p.m. and February 21 at 3 p.m. for a special gallery talk with the exhibition's curator Norman Muller, Museum conservator. |
 Tunic by Sanford Biggers
Originally created as part of the 2003 exhibition Shuffling the Deck, a presentation of contemporary artwork that reinterpreted pieces in the Museum's collections in new and unexpected ways, Tunic by Sanford Biggers takes inspiration from a plumed tunic from Cameroon in the African gallery. Biggers's updated version is a down jacket completely covered with feathers and similar in dramatic impact to the original African garment. Now on view in the Marquand Mather Court, Tunic was originally exhibited with a tongue-in-cheek label that mimicked the scholarly style of museum labelling by describing the role the piece played in rituals of urban "protection."
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 Handmade Cards Give your loved one a handmade piece of art from the Museum Store this Valentine's Day. Created by artist Jeanine Abels, these unique frameable collages using hand-screened Asian papers, acrylics, and watercolors are an unforgettable gift from the heart.
Regularly, $9.95 - $12.95 each
Friends member price, $8.95 - $11.65 each |
Image credits, top to bottom:
Princeton University Art Museum
Photo: Bruce M. White
Albert Sands Southworth, American, 1811-1894
Josiah Johnson Hawes, American, 1808-1901
Untitled, ca. 1851-54
Whole-plate daguerreotype
Image: 19.9 x 14.8 cm.
Princeton University Art Museum, Gift of the Advisory Council of the Art Museum in honor of Peter C. Bunnell and Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund [2000-348]
Photo: Bruce M. White
Nosadella (Giovanni Francesco Bezzi), Italian, active ca. 1550-1571
(formerly attributed to Pellegrino Tibaldi, Italian, 1527-1596)
The Annunciation
Oil on wooden panel
107.3 x 78.8 cm.
Princeton University Art Museum, Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund [y1976-25]
Photo: Bruce M. White
Sanford Biggers, American, born 1970
Tunic, 2003
Bubble down jacket and feathers
91.4 x 91.4 x 47.0 cm.
Princeton University Art Museum, Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund [2003-147]
© 2003, Sanford Biggers
Photo: Bruce M. White
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