Music in the Museum Tonight! 

April 13, 2011

Don't miss two great performances beginning at 

7 p.m. tonight in the Art Museum: Ars Moriendi, composed by Steven Mackey and performed by the Jack Quartet, and Geoffrey Burleson's solo recital of Reliquary, composed by Barbara White. A conversation will follow the concert, organized by the Princeton University Department of Music as part of the yearlong project MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART. Tickets are $15 and are available through University Ticketing until 5 p.m. today--call (609) 258-9220 or visit the website. Tickets will be sold at the door starting at 6 p.m. Tickets are free for students and can be picked up at the door or the Frist Campus Center Ticket Office.

For individuals unable to attend in-person, a live broadcast of the production will be available via MediaStreaming at 7 p.m. Click here to watch.

Community Connections

Communiversity

Saturday, April 30, 12-5 p.m. (rain or shine)

Campus and Downtown Princeton  

Free and open to all

Mark your calendar to spend part of your day with us at the Art Museum's presentation booths. We will have a free collage activity for children inspired by the exhibition Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage, and the must-visit Museum Store tables for a wide selection of artisanal jewelry, stationery, toys, and other gifts. And don't forget to stop by the Membership table to enter the drawing for a free family membership, along with hourly prize giveaways donated by the Friends of the Art Museum, including a tote bag filled with Museum Store goodies for the Tiger in us all!

Communiversity is held on Nassau and Witherspoon Streets, Palmer Square, and the Princeton University Campus. Look for the Art Museum booths on campus near the Fitz-Randolph Gate.

Must See in the Museum

Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage

Through June 26

German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most influential figures to have emerged from the international avant-garde in the years following the First World War. In response to the turmoil and changes then affecting German society, Schwitters developed a unique artistic practice, one that merged art and life, utilizing found objects and everyday materials. Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage explores the significance of color and light to the artist's work, as well as the relationship between painting and collage. In addition to a full-scale reconstruction of the Merzbau, the exhibition includes roughly eighty collages, assemblages, reliefs, and sculptures from 1918 to 1947. Don't miss the exhibition that The New York Times heralded as "a gift of a show"!

Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage is organized by the Menil Collection, Houston.

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Late Thursdays

This is Collage

Student Advisory Board Gala

Thursday, April 14, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.

Museum galleries

Students and Princeton Previewers: Join us for the second annual Student Gala, this year honoring Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage. This popular event invites the entire Princeton University student community to come together in exploring the Museum's diverse collections and temporary exhibitions. This year's theme manifests in the form of a large-scale collaborative collage that evokes Schwitters's work and spirit in exciting ways. Explore the galleries, eat tasty hors d'oeuvres, participate in a collage-based scavenger hunt, enjoy live music, and, with the aid of fortune-tellers, tap into your subconscious like a true Dadaist.

Upcoming Highlights 

Ars Moriendi and Reliquary: Memorialization in Music

April 13, 7 p.m.

Princeton University Art Museum

Lasting Impressions of the Grand Tour: Giuseppe Vasi's Rome

March 5-June 12

Princeton University Art Museum 

Credits (top to bottom):

Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Bruce M. White.

Steven Mackey. Photo: Jane Richey.

2010 Communiversity

Peter Bissegger: Reconstruction of Kurt Schwitters's Merzbau, 1981-83. Original Merzbau built ca. 1923-36, destroyed 1943. Sprengel Museum Hannover. Photo Michael Herling / Aline Gwose © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ProLitteris, Zürich.

Mexico, Veracruz, Late Classic, A.D. 600-900: ceremonial ballgame yoke. Granite with traces of red pigment, 12 x 37 x 40.5 cm. Museum purchase, gift of the Friends of the Art Museum in honor of the sixtieth birthday of Gillett G. Griffin (y1988-12). Photo: Bruce M. White.

2010 Student Advisory Board Gala

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