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January 18, 2012
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 Midnight in the Garden
Annual Museum Benefit Gala
Saturday, February 4, 6 p.m.-12 a.m.
Drawing inspiration from one of the Museum's most renowned works of art--Sir Edward Burne-Jones's stained-glass panel Saint Cecilia--and celebrating the upcoming exhibition Princeton and the Gothic Revival: 1870-1930, the Art Museum's annual Gala is an evening of cocktails, dinner, and dancing that is both a highlight of the Princeton calendar and a great way to support the Museum's educational mission. Set in the Museum and in one of the gems of Victorian Princeton, Prospect House, the Gala is not to be missed! Contact our events office for details at (609) 258-5013 or email jveerasa@princeton.edu.
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 Multiple Hands: Collective Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Painting
Closes January 22
Collective creativity played--and still plays--a major role in Japanese art making. Multiple Hands explores the collective art-making process, focusing on workshop and collaborative painting practices in eighteenth-century Japan. Now in its final days, the exhibition offers an intimate look at paintings from the Museum's own holdings as well as exceptional loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a private collection. Multiple Hands affords an important new perspective on Japanese painting.
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 The Fifth Sign of the Last Judgment
On view in Object of Devotion: Medieval English Alabaster Sculpture from the Victoria and Albert Museum
Through February 12
Fifteen "last signs" signify the coming of the Last Judgment, as explained in a text attributed to Saint Jerome. In the fifth sign the grass will ooze with a dew of blood and all species of bird will gather together in fear. The scroll would have borne a text identifying the scene. Amid the surreal undergrowth flecked with blood, three men witness the terrifying omens. Around them congregate birds, including an owl peeping from a hole in a tree. Discover this and other masterpieces of English medieval sculpture on view in Object of Devotion through February 12. |
 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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 Guerrilla Girls in Our Midst
Thursday, February 16, 7-9 p.m.
McCosh 50, Princeton University
Join two representatives from the Guerrilla Girls--an acclaimed organization of anonymous female artists who fight sexism and racism in politics, art, and pop culture--as they discuss their activism and expose the social truths of the art world today. A reception at the Art Museum will follow.
Late Thursday programming is made possible by the generous support of Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.
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 Spring Day Trips
Attention Museum members: Would you like to visit the James A. Michener Art Museum and two beautiful private homes along the Delaware River in New Hope? Celebrate the Neue Galerie's tenth anniversary and see the newest addition to the Frick Collection? Discover the wonders held within the walls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Or visit a stellar private collection and the one-of-a-kind Bruce Museum in Greenwich, Connecticut?
Watch your mailbox for information about the Museum's exciting spring day trips! Only Museum members can sign up for these fantastic opportunities. Not a member? Join today and you'll receive a personal invitation to travel with the Friends. |
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Credits (top to bottom):
Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Bruce M. White.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones, British, 1833-1898, made by William Morris & Co., London, est. 1875: Saint Cecilia, ca. 1900, detail. Stained and painted glass. Museum purchase, Surdna Fund (y1974-84). Photo: Bruce M. White.
Multiple Hands: Collective Creativity in Eighteenth-Century Japanese Painting closes January 22, 2012. Photo Bruce M. White.
British: The Fifth Sign of the Last Judgment, ca. 1440-1470. Alabaster and polychromy, 38.5 x 23.2 cm. The Victoria and Albert Museum, gift of W. L. Hildburgh (A.118-1946). Image courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Image courtesy the Guerrilla Girls.
Image courtesy of Bruce Museum.
Reproduction of all images is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without written permission from the copyright holder. © 2012 Princeton University Art Museum
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