Save the Date 

July 20, 2011

Thursday, July 28, 6-9 p.m.

Art Museum galleries

Join us as we celebrate our summer season with three exhibitions that explore time, transformation, and memory: The Life and Death of Buildings, Cartographies of Time, and The Bunnell Decades. The evening will include light refreshments. These exhibitions are presented as part of the yearlong collaborative investigation MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART.

Exhibition Opening  

July 23-November 6

The Life and Death of Buildings, opening this weekend, considers buildings, photographs, and the ways they embody time and perpetuate memory. The camera reveals historical continuity in the long-term flux of built environments: their birth, evolution, decline, excavation, re-use, and re-invention. The exhibition is a cornerstone event in a yearlong collaborative exploration, MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART, organized by arts and cultural organizations at Princeton University and in the Princeton community.

Late Thursdays

Memory and the Moving Image: Stand By Me (1986)

Director: Rob Reiner

Thursday, July 21, sundown

Brown/Dodd Quad

"For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life. But for everyone, it's the time that memories are made of."  

- Stand By Me, 1986

Stand By Me tracks a writer as he recounts a childhood journey to find the body of a missing boy (R). Part of MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART, this film series explores themes of memory and loss. Popcorn and soda will be served; please bring your own seating.

In case of rain, the film will be screened in McCormick 101. 

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

Students in the Museum

As part of the Museum's lively program of summer internships, we welcome two students working

with our Asian collections: Miriam Chusid, doctoral student in Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology, and Eunjeong Chi, Class of 2011.  

Miriam is a specialist in Japanese Buddhist art and is researching the recently acquired Portrait of Fujiwara no Kamatari as a Shinto Deity---this remarkable 14th- or 15th-century painting will be featured in the Japanese galleries in August. Eunjeong is working on the collections database as part of the Museum's ongoing collections-wide inventory project, and is studying the 12th-century Korean Celadon Ewer with Lotus Flower Design, on display in the Asian galleries.

Just for Friends

Consider becoming a member today! Already a Friend and want an invitation to the next Curator's Tour? Call the membership office at (609) 258-4057 or send an e-mail to friends@princeton.edu to upgrade your current level of support.

Highlights  

MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART is a collaborative investigation into the relationship between the arts and cultural memory.

Cartographies of Time, through September 18

The Bunnell Decades, through October 23 

The Life and Death of Buildings, July 23-November 6 

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

Tim Davis, American, born 1969: Colosseum Pictures (The New Antiquity), 2009. Chromogenic print, 41.9 x 53.3 cm. Museum purchase, gift of the Charina Foundation (2009-130). © 2009, Tim Davis / image courtesy Greenberg Van Doren Gallery.

Zhang Dali, Chinese, born 1963: Demolition---World Financial Center, Beijing, 1998. Chromogenic print, 89.5 x 59.7 cm. Collection of David Solo. © 1998, Zhang Dali / photo: Bruce M. White.

Stand By Me © 1986 Columbia Pictures / Act III

Summer interns discuss a recent acquisition on view in the galleries. 

Friends enjoy a behind-the-scenes tour with Curator of Education and Academic Programming Caroline Harris.

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