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November 23, 2011
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 The highlight of the Museum's winter exhibition season opens on Saturday, December 3. Featuring 60 exceptional sculptures from the finest collection of its kind, Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum examines the most important scenes and saints, offering insights into the spiritual lives, hopes, fears, and religious aspirations of medieval Christians. The exhibition also considers the commerce in these works and their role in European trade, as well as their place both in the home and in chapels and cathedrals. |
 Object of Devotion is accompanied by a 224-page, fully illustrated catalogue, available in the Museum Store. $49.95; Friends member $44.95
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 Slow Down with Yoga and Meditation
Thursday, December 1, 6:30-9 p.m. Art Museum galleries
For thousands of years, yoga and meditation have been tools to quiet the mind, bring transformation, and achieve wisdom--not unlike the benefits of discovering great works of art. Join Princeton's YogaAbove instructor Michael Cremone for an exploration of the healing benefits of yoga, combining a lecture with yoga and meditation practices that you can take home. Bring your own mat or borrow one for the evening. Refreshments in the Museum will follow. Free and open to the public.
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 Tethered Tiger, Captured Dragon: Clearing Out Demons from Mountain Woods
Wednesday, November 30, 4:30 p.m.
106 McCormick Hall
Carma Hinton, documentary filmmaker and Clarence J. Robinson Professor of Visual Culture and Chinese Studies at George Mason University, will lecture on "Searching for Demons on Mount Guankou," a theme explored in two paintings (one from the 13th and the other from the late 15th-early 16th century) currently on view in the exhibition Immortals, Deities, and Sages in Chinese Painting. The lecture is organized by the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art and sponsored by the Program in East Asian Studies, the Department of Religion, and the Princeton University Art Museum.
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 My World in Your World
Lecture by artist Thomas Hirschhorn Tuesday, December 6, 4:30-6 p.m. 101 McCormick
Acclaimed Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn, one of the most exciting artists working today, comes to Princeton in December as the Art Museum's 2011-2012 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist in Residence. Hirschhorn's presentation will be followed by a response from Hal Foster, Townsend Martin, Class of 1917, Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton. The lecture is cosponsored by the International Sculpture Center and the University's Department of Art & Archaeology. A reception will follow in the Art Museum.
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In the Spirit of the Season
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 We all have at least one person on our holiday gift list for whom it's difficult to shop--that person who seems to have everything. Let the Art Museum help you solve that perennial problem with the gift of membership! Museum membership makes the perfect gift for friends, family--and even you. To make the season even jollier this year, when you purchase a gift membership between now and December 31, you get a gift in return!
By giving the gift of membership, you are also supporting the Museum's vibrant exhibitions and educational activities. Memberships are available for purchase both online and in the Museum Store. Learn more by calling the Friends office at (609) 258-4057 or by emailing friends@princeton.edu. |
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The Museum will be closed Thursday, November 24. Happy Thanksgiving!
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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.
British: The Assumption of the Virgin, ca. 1460-90. Alabaster, 41.9 x 26.7 cm. The Victoria and Albert Museum. Image courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Guests enjoy yoga in the galleries.
Chinese, Ming dynasty, 1368-1644, Anonymous: Searching for Demons in Mount Guankou (Guankou sou shan tu), undated; about 1500, detail. Handscroll; ink on silk. Gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951 (y1982-97).
Thomas Hirschhorn, Swiss, born 1957: Ur-Collage A-15, 2008. Cardboard, print media, and transparent scotch tape, 33.5 x 50.5 cm. Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund (2011-36). © 2008, Thomas Hirschhorn.
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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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