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The Princeton University Art Museum eagerly awaits the arrival of returning alumni, family, and friends to campus this weekend to celebrate Reunions 2010! We welcome all of Princeton's great classes to explore the galleries, get reacquainted with favorite works of art, and discover new treasures, too. |
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 Inner Sanctum: Memory and Meaning in Princeton's Faculty Room at Nassau Hall
May 28 - October 31, 2010
From British monarchs to American presidents, from clergymen to economists, the portraits in the Faculty Room at Nassau Hall embody the narrative of Princeton's history. This narrative is the focus of Inner Sanctum, a special exhibition organized by the Art Museum that explores Nassau Hall's Faculty Room as the symbolic center of the University and its role in shaping and reflecting Princeton's identity. Of special note is the painstakingly restored historic frame surrounding Charles Willson Peale's George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, one of the great icons in American art. |
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 Architecture as Icon and The Question of Landscape
 On view through June 6, 2010
Two of the Museum's exciting spring exhibitions are rapidly coming to a close. Architecture as Icon is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the great treasures of Byzantine art, many on view for the first time in the United States. The Question of Landscape, on view in the Museum's Asian galleries, examines the meaning of landscape in Chinese and Western landscape works from the 12th century to the present, and asks how Asian notions of land may differ from Western concepts. Don't wait to see these two great exhibitions before they close on Sunday, June 6! |
 Picture of PicturesThis exciting new exhibition explores the many ingenious ways artists have invented one image by reinventing another. Through a playful but thought-provoking sequence of objects--photographs, paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture--the exhibition travels to fifteenth-century Germany by way of Ming Dynasty China and onward to the twenty-first century, uniting the postmodern craft of "appropriation" with its ancestors from throughout the history of art. Picture of Pictures is a stunning new way to think about art, and a great opportunity to make new connections across the cultural landscape. |
Want up-to-the-minute insights on what's happening at the Art Museum? Monday, May 17, was the launch of the Museum's Twitter page! Follow us @PUArtMuseum to get the inside scoop on the Art Museum and the arts on and off campus. |
Image credits, top to bottom:
Princeton University Art Museum
Photo: Bruce M. White
Princeton University's Faculty Room in Nassau Hall Photo: Bruce M. White
Chinese Qing dynasty, 1644 - 1912
Xiao Chen, ca. 1645 - ca. 1715
Valley and Mountains, after Zhao Boju
Undated; late 17th - early 18th centuries
Hanging scroll; ink and colors on silk
Gift of DuBois Schanck Morris, Class of 1893
(y1947 - 100)
Photo: Bruce M. White
Icon of Saint Dimitrios
Crete (?), late 16th - early 17th centuries
Tempera on wood, 108 x 82.5 x 9 cm.
Museum of Antivouniotissa, Corfu, Greece
Photo courtesy of the Museum of Antivouniotissa, Corfu, Greece
Chinese
Modern period, 1912 - present
Wang Ruihui
Grandparents and Grandchildren Before a Portrait of Mao
Gouache on paper, 57 x 43.2 cm.
Museum purchase
(2003 - 28)
Photo: Bruce M. White
Reproduction of these images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the written permission from the copyright holder. © 2010 Princeton University Art Museum. All rights reserved. |
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