Summer Preview 

May 11, 2011

Get ready for summer at the Art Museum! The main event of the season is the exhibition The Life and Death of Buildings, opening July 23, which considers the evolution of built environments--their disappearance and excavation, re-use and 

re-invention--as a mode of continuity that defines history and civilization. Cartographies of Time, opening June 25, explores graphic representations of European and American history, the evolution of the modern timeline, and attempts to describe time in visual terms. Both exhibitions are part of the ongoing collaborative investigation MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART.

Late Thursdays

Rome on Film: La Dolce Vita

Director: Federico Fellini

Thursday, May 19, beginning at sundown

Lawn in front of McCormick Hall

Don't miss the Museum's popular outdoor film series in its second annual appearance! Fellini's 1960 masterpiece La Dolce Vita is the first of a series of three films featuring Rome, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Lasting Impressions of the Grand Tour: Giuseppe Vasi's Rome. Be transported to Fellini's Rome by bringing a chair or a blanket, grabbing a complimentary drink and a bag of popcorn, and settling in for a relaxing evening. In case of rain, the film will be screened in McCormick 101.

Be Late. Be Cool. Summer at the Art Museum.

Must See in the Museum 

Of the many artists in Rome who catered to the demand for lasting impressions of the Grand Tour, the printmaker Giuseppe Vasi (1710-1782) was 

one of the most prolific and affordable. Vasi's panoramic etchings, such as a this view of St. Peter's Basilica, functioned as mementos--high-end postcards, as it were--evoking the splendors of the Eternal City in a pre-photographic era. On view in the exhibition Lasting Impressions of the Grand Tour: Giuseppe Vasi's Rome, through June 12.

On the Web and Our Walls  

Discover for yourself why eighteenth-century Rome was the artistic center of the European continent. In celebration of the exhibition Lasting Impressions of the Grand Tour: Giuseppe Vasi's Rome, the Museum highlights seven works in the collection that testify to the city's enduring power to influence and shape Western art. Visit our Facebook album for the rest of the story and to discover where each piece can be found in the galleries.

Family Day  

Family Day: A Passport to Art

Saturday, May 21, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Museum galleries and McCormick Hall

Join us for a day of travel and adventure at the 

Art Museum. Grab your passport and explore 

art through the ages and from around the world. Family Day offers hands-on activities, live performances, storytelling, scavenger hunts, and prizes. Pizza and refreshments will be served. Family Day is free and open to the public. Visitors of all ages are welcome!

Exhibition Highlights 

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

March 5-June 12

Cartographies of Time

June 25-September 18

The Life and Death of Buildings

July 23-November 6 

Credits (top to bottom):

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

Richard Misrach, American, born 1949: White Man Contemplating Pyramids, 1989. Chromogenic print, 47 x 59.5 cm. Gift of Paul Runyon, by exchange, and the artist (2011-2). © Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; and Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York.

2010 Film Series: The 1970s on Film

Giuseppe Vasi, Italian, 1710-1782: Il Prospetto della città Leonina che si vede colla Basilica Vaticana, Ponte e Castel S. Angelo, from Le Basiliche Patriarcali, 1765. Etching on paper, 100 cm. x 69 cm. Lent by Vincent J. Buonanno. Photo courtesy Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

Angelica Kauffmann, British, born in Switzerland, 1741-1807: Pliny the Younger and his Mother at Misenum, 79 A.D., 1785. Oil on canvas, 103.0 x 127.5 cm.; 140.5 x 116.0 cm. (frame). Museum purchase, gift of Franklin H. Kissner (y1969-89). Photo: Bruce M. White.

2010 Family Day: Journey the Silk Road 

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