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Happy Holidays from the
Princeton University Art Museum!
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 What better way to enrich time with family and friends than a visit to the Art Museum! Our special exhibitions and collections galleries are sure to entice and challenge, and for kids (and the young at heart) we've designed lively scavenger hunts to help you discover the whole Museum.
Don't forget to stop by the Museum Store on your way out for last-minute stocking stuffers--including a Museum membership that will bring the gift of art the whole year round. Now becoming a Friend of the Art Museum is easier than ever with our NEW online sign-up!
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 Gauguin's Paradise Remembered:
The Noa Noa Prints
Closes January 2, 2011
Be sure to visit (or revisit) Gauguin's Paradise Remembered during its final days and discover a side of Paul Gauguin you may never have known. Made in Paris in the winter and early spring of 1894, Gauguin created these
self-consciously primitive woodcuts as illustrations for his own book, Noa Noa (Fragrant Scent), written in the form of an idealized journal that recalled his first Tahitian journey from 1891-93.
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 Jade's verdant translucence and exceptional hardness render it the most prized and the most challenging Mesoamerican natural resource to work. As exemplified by this fine pectoral, the Olmec mastered carving this resilient mineral to suggest smooth, soft flesh. Centuries later, a Maya nobleman also appreciated the quality of this object, labeling the work as his possession on the reverse. Discover all of the treasures on view in the galleries of art of the ancient Americas.
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 Faces and Feelings
December 24, 2010, through January 2, 2011
Looking for an indoor activity the whole family can do together? Faces and Feelings is a self-guided tour exploring expressive faces throughout the Museum and the artists who created them, from fierce Asian tomb guardians to smiling Remojadas ceramic figures. Like all of our family programming, this activity will provoke thoughtful discussion and help families of all ages interact with the art and each other.
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 Visitors to the Museum in February will find an entirely new look to the galleries devoted to European art from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Featuring a new color palette and a new selection of works including old friends and new acquisitions, the galleries will also more dramatically integrate highlights from the Museum's holdings of decorative arts and prints and drawings, including such masterpieces as Albrecht Dürer's original woodblock for the Holy Family with Three Hares and Rembrandt van Rijn's Three Crosses. As with the reinstallation of the Museum's galleries for medieval and nineteenth-century art, completed earlier this year, the updated European galleries will include a new emphasis on interpretation with thoughtful and varied insights supporting every object on view.
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| The Museum will be closed December 24, 25, and 31, 2010; and January 1, 2011. Happy Holidays! |
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Credits (top to bottom):
Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Bruce M. White
Abbott Handerson Thayer, American, 1849-1921. Monadnock, Winter Sunrise, 1919. Oil on canvas, 133 x 158 cm. Gift of Frank Jewett Mather Jr. (y1953-56). Photo: Bruce M. White
Paul Gauguin, French, 1848-1903. Printed by Pola Gauguin. L'Univers est créé (The Universe Is Created), 1894, printed in 1921. Woodcut printed in black and light gray ink on light gray Japanese paper, pasted onto light blue-gray mount, 26.8 x 43.2 cm. Museum purchase, Felton Gibbons Fund (2009-106). Photo: Bruce M. White
Olmec, Gulf Coast, Mexico, Middle Preclassic, 900-500 B.C. Plaque with modeled deity face. Reverse: Maya, said to have been found on Isla Piedras, Campeche, Mexico, Early Classic, 50 B.C.-A.D. 200. Reworked heirloom with hieroglyphic inscription. Jadeite, 8.4 x 12.1 x 2.9 cm. Anonymous loan. Photo: Stefan Hagen
Art for Families program, 2010.
Museum preparators readying a new installation with Abraham Bloemaert's The Four Evangelists in the Museum's galleries of earlier European art.
Reproduction of all images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the written permission from the copyright holder. © 2010 Princeton University Art Museum
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