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Welcome Parents! 

October 12, 2011

Students in front of Washington portraitParents Weekend is just days away, and we invite all Princeton students to introduce your families to your Art Museum! We're featuring special programs this weekend, from Art for Families on Saturday morning to concerts by the renowned Princeton Singers on both Saturday and Sunday evenings. Our fall exhibitions, updated galleries, and refreshed Museum Store make this a great weekend to discover (or rediscover) the museum at the heart of Princeton.

Final Days 

Beahan and McPhee The Bunnell Decades
Closing October 23

The Bunnell Decades celebrates Princeton Professor Peter C. Bunnell, who mentored a generation of scholar-curators while building one of the nation's great photography collections. The exhibition takes the form of a timeline, with each major exhibition that Bunnell mounted between 1972 and 2002 represented by one photograph. Also featured are objects that demonstrate the evolution of photographic technology, from daguerreotypes and stereographs to contemporary print processes.

Must See in the Museum 

Alejandro Cesarco's Zeide Isaac
On view in Marquand Mather Court

Make time in your visit to experience the collaborative 2009 video Zeide Isaac in the Museum's contemporary gallery. In this touching work, Alejandro Cesarco's zeide ("grandfather" in Yiddish)--a Holocaust survivor--performs for the artist's camera, reading from a script prepared by his grandson. Rather than detailing his grandfather's personal experience during the 1930s, Cesarco highlights the gap between event and recollection, reflecting on the vagaries of memory and the imperfect reconstruction of past events in the present.

Explore highlights from our modern and contemporary art collections online.

Community Connections 

Princeton Singers Myths/Multiforms/Minimalism
Princeton Singers
Artistic Director Steven Sametz
Saturday, October 15, 5:30 and 8 p.m.
Sunday, October 16, 5:30 p.m.
Museum galleries

For two nights this weekend, the Princeton Singers, in conjunction with the Museum's exhibition of Mark Rothko's No. 3/No. 13, explore the artist's inspiration from classical mythology and the ways in which his later work presages musical minimalism. This concert includes works by Randall Thompson, William Byrd, Pulitzer Prize-winner Steven Stucky, and Steve Reich, and features Gyorgy Ligeti's 16-part Lux Aeterna.

No. 3/No. 13 is on loan from the Museum of Modern Art through January 8, 2012.

Performance tickets are $15 and are available through University Ticketing by calling (609) 258-9220 or visiting princeton.edu/utickets.

Late Thursdays 

Sze Tsung Leong A Public Conversation with Sze Tsung Leong
Thursday, October 20, 6:30-9 p.m.
McCormick Hall 101
Reception in the Museum galleries to follow

Join us for a special look at The Life and Death of Buildings, featuring one of the most acclaimed artists represented in the exhibition. Photographer Sze Tsung Leong will discuss--and share images of--his History Images, Cities, and Horizons series. Leong also will address the "global landscape" in contemporary photography and examine broader thematic issues in the exhibition.
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Memory and the Work of ArtMEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART is a collaborative investigation into the relationship between the arts and cultural memory.

 

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Credits (top to bottom):

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

 

Students and visitors contemplate art at the recent 3rd annual Nassau Street Sampler. 

 

Virginia Beahan, American, born 1946, and Laura McPhee, American, born 1958: Artificial Volcano Erupting, Mirage Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, 1995. Chromogenic print, 47.2 x 59.7 cm. Museum purchase, gift of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (1995-386). © 1995, Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee / photo: Bruce M. White. 

 

Alejandro Cesarco, Uruguayan, born 1975, based in the United States: Zeide Isaac, 2009. 16mm film transferred to digi-beta; duration: 5 minutes, 45 seconds. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund (2010-16).  

 

The Princeton Singers in the galleries for Medieval, Byzantine, and Islamic art at the Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Kal Sostarecz. 

 

Sze Tsung Leong, American and British, born Mexico City, 1970: Jiangsheng Cun, Shanxi Province, from the series History Images, 2004. Chromogenic print, ed. 9/10; 101.6 x 121.9 cm. Gift of David Solo (2010-222). © Sze Tsung Leong / image courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York. 

 

Reproduction of all images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without written permission from the copyright holder. © 2011 Princeton University Art Museum

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