A new installation of highlights from the Museum's collection of eighteenth-century European art has recently gone on view on the Museum's upper level. Featuring English, French, and Italian masterworks, including portraits by Nathaniel Dance and Angelica Kauffmann, William Hogarth's famous Election series, and drawings by Henry Fuseli and others, these rarely seen gems are on view only through February 20--don't miss them!

Last Chance

Nobody's Property:  

Art, Land, Space, 2000-2010

Midcentury

Closing February 20

Don't miss the last chance to see these two thought-provoking exhibitions. Each considers moments in time when changes in the world drove artists to respond through art, forging new paths in the field. Nobody's Property tackles questions about the economic, geopolitical, and phantasmatic conditions of land and space. Midcentury explores how artists in the 1940s and 1950s began to view their work as a microcosm in which forces in the larger universe (harmony, conflict, and complexity) came into focus.

New Exhibition 

The Tōkaidō Road:  

19th- and 20th-Century Journeys

through Japanese Prints

February 8-June 5

Tōkaidō, the three-hundred-mile route with fifty-five stops from Edo (present-day Tokyo) to Kyoto, has been a popular subject for Japanese artists since the nineteenth century. Andō Hiroshige (1797-1858), one of the most important Japanese woodblock print artists, created over twenty editions of his celebrated series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō between 1833 and his death in 1858. This exhibition features the variations in size, format, and composition among the more than one thousand Tōkaidō prints designed by Hiroshige, and illustrates the continued popularity of the subject among twentieth-century artists.

Late Thursdays  

Failed Love

Thursday, February 10, 7-9 p.m.

Art Museum galleries

"I had a lot of dates but I decided to stay home and dye my eyebrows."  -Andy Warhol

Heartbreak can be a great muse. Whether you are happily in love, boycotting it forever, or somewhere in between, the Museum's Student Advisory Board invites you to share your pain with Princeton singers, songwriters, poets, and performance artists at Failed Love, our annual Late Thursday event celebrating the power of a broken heart to inspire great art. Drown your sorrows in art, music, poetry--and lots of chocolate. For a full list of performers, please visit our website.

Be Late. It's Fate.

Campus Connections   

Lecture by Artist Tania Bruguera

Cosponsored by the Program in Latin American Studies and the

Princeton University Art Museum

Wednesday, February 9, 5:30 p.m.

McCormick 106

Artist Tania Bruguera will speak on her most recent work, including current projects in Havana and Europe, in the context of contemporary Cuban art. This is a rare opportunity to hear from this major, boundary-crossing artist, one of the leading politically informed performance artists of her generation.

Francois Marius Granet, French, 1775-1849: View of Tivoli with the Church of San Silvestro, 1807.
Oil on canvas, 25.2 x 32.7 cm. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (2002-295). Photo by Bruce M. White.

Matthew Day Jackson, American, born 1974: August 6, 1945, 2010, detail. Burnt wood and lead on wood panels,  

243.8 x 313.7 cm. Museum purchase, Kathleen Compton Sherrerd Fund for Acquisitions in American Art, and Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (2010-126 a-b). © 2010 Matthew Day Jackson / Photo by Bruce M. White.

Japanese, Edo period, 1600-1868. Andō Hiroshige, 1797-1858: Shōno, from the series The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, 1832-34. Woodblock print (ōban yoko-e format), ink and color on paper, 24 x 36.4 cm. Gift from the collection of Anne van Biema (1997-550). Photo by Bruce M. White.

Tania Bruguera. Photo by Nashashiki Skaer.

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