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For the Family
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November 9, 2011
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 Experience art with your family during the final two sessions of our Art for Families program this fall. Drop in anytime between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. on Saturday, November 12, for Celebrating Nature in Japanese Art and the opportunity to decorate your own scroll. Join us again on Saturday, November 19, to hear stories from around the world and to make your own puppet.
For an engaging activity your family can do together over Thanksgiving weekend, come to the Art Museum! Our popular Animal Bingo is a self-guided program that is fun for families of all ages, with game cards available at the information desk. |
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Memory and the Work of Art
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 Author Nicole Krauss
Writing The History of Love
Tuesday, November 15, 6:30 p.m.
Richardson Auditorium
Named one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists and among The New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, Nicole Krauss will present the final distinguished lecture for MEMORY AND THE WORK OF ART. The author of The History of Love (2005) and Great House (2010) will discuss the crafting of The History of Love out of memories, histories, and imagination. Her novel is the focus of Princeton Reads, a program of the Princeton Public Library. Free tickets will be available at the box office starting at 5:30 p.m., November 15, or can be reserved by calling (609) 258-9220.
And don't miss the third speaker in the distinguished lecture series, when neuroscientist Eric Kandel speaks on The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Psychology, and Brain from Vienna 1900 to the Present tomorrow, November 10, at 4:30 p.m. in McCosh 50. |
Mark your calendar for the opening of Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum on Saturday, December 3. The 60 sculptures on view come from the world's most important collection of English medieval sculpture and offer insight into the spiritual lives, hopes, and fears of medieval Christians. Join us on the exhibition's opening day as Stephen Perkinson, associate professor at Bowdoin College, discusses "Copying and Creativity in English Medieval Sculpture," at 5 p.m. in McCormick 101, with a reception afterward at the museum.
Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum was organized and circulated by Art Services International, Alexandria, Virginia, and is supported by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation.
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 The exhibition is accompanied by a 224-page, fully illustrated catalogue.
$49.95; Friends member $44.95
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 Bamboo and Pomegranate
On view in Multiple Hands
Through January 22, 2012
Bamboo and Pomegranate (on loan from the Philadelphia Museum of Art) represents one of the three aspects of collective creativity (workshop painting, collaborative art-making, and copying) examined in this exhibition. Painted by two Kano workshop painters--Kano Naganobu and his son Osanobu--this is a collaborative work. Naganobu painted the pomegranate after a similar painting attributed to Muqi, a 13th-century Chinese monk/painter, while Osanobu, the son, painted the bamboo and rocks after Tan Zhirui, a Chinese painter known for his renderings of bamboo. |
 Thomas Hirschhorn, the Museum's 2011-2012 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist in Residence has two works on view in our galleries from his Ur-Collage series. His work reclaims the practice of collage for the present day, positioning him in a long line of artists who test the boundaries between politics and aesthetics. Hirschhorn's art is concerned not just with the precariousness of materials, but also with the precariousness of human bodies in the face of weapons, media, and poverty.
Save the date for a lecture by the artist on Tuesday, December 6, at 4:30 p.m., with a reception to follow in the Museum. |
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The Museum will be closed Thursday, November 24. Happy Thanksgiving!
Please join us for the remainder of the holiday weekend--we will be open during our regular hours.
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 MEMORY 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.
Children enjoying art in the Museum.
Nicole Krauss, author of The History of Love.
British: The Adoration of the Magi, ca. 1460-1500. Alabaster, 43 x 26.7 cm. The Victoria and Albert Museum. Image courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Japanese, Edo period, 1600-1868, Kano Osanobu, 1796-1846, and Kano Naganobu, 1775-1828: Bamboo and Pomegranate, detail. Hanging scroll; ink on silk. Philadelphia Museum of Art: purchased with Museum funds from the Simkhovitch Collection, 1929 (1929-40-234). Image courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Thomas Hirschhorn, Swiss, born 1957: Ur-Collage B-XXIV, 2008. Cardboard, print media, and transparent scotch tape; 37 x 55.5 cm. Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund (2011-37). © 2008, Thomas Hirschhorn.
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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