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Happy New Year!
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January 4, 2012
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Resolve to make the visual arts a cornerstone of the new year by visiting the Princeton University Art Museum. There is always something to discover--from new works on view in our collections galleries every month to special exhibitions, such as Multiple Hands, replete with subtly exquisite examples of collaborative art making from eighteenth-century Japan, and Object of Devotion, which highlights the world's richest collection of medieval alabaster sculpture. With activities ranging from artist's talks and film screenings to art making and yoga in the galleries, the Museum is the place to refresh both body and soul. |
 "I stared at the horse who had just sprung from the wheelchair: a huge white stallion. But where its neck should be was the upper body of my Latin teacher, smoothly grafted to the horse's trunk."
The Lightning Thief: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1 (2005), 74.
The centaurs of ancient Greek mythology stand--like humanity itself--with legs in two worlds. Wild and violent, like Nessos, who assaulted the wife of Herakles, centaurs also could be noble and wise, like Cheiron, the teacher of Achilles, Jason, and Asklepios. Their bifurcated form--half horse, half man--perfectly symbolizes the fundamentally ambivalent nature--part beast, part angel--of all human beings.
Explore more of our Ancient Art collection online. |
 Family Movie Night:
Percy Jackson & the Olympians:
The Lightning Thief Thursday, January 12, 6-9 p.m.
Join us for an evening of adventure and mystery, beginning at 6 p.m. with refreshments and a riddle-solving quest through the Museum's galleries of ancient Greek and Roman art. At 7 p.m. sit back and relax as we watch Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, the 2010 fantasy-adventure film starring Logan Lerman. Free and open to all, no tickets or reservations needed. Late Thursday programming is made possible by the generous support of Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.
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 William Stafford Poetry Reading
Thursday, January 12, 5:30-7 p.m.
In collaboration with the Department of English and in tandem with coffee houses and libraries across the country, the Art Museum is pleased to present this year's William Stafford Poetry Reading. The Museum joins with more than fifty organizations in ten states in celebrating the poet's birth and invites attendees to bring their favorite poem by Stafford for reading and discussion. Birthday cake will be served. Free and open to the public.
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 1000 Places to See before You Die
Need help creating your bucket list? This special edition of Patricia Schultz's New York Times bestseller is available at the Art Museum Store. Handsomely bound in orange leather, this book could be the best present you give yourself or someone special.
Containing more than 600 photographs and visiting 28 countries, 1000 Places to See before You Die provides indispensable practical information and experiential insights.
Retail $75.00; Friends member $67.50
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Credits (top to bottom):
Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Bruce M. White.
Yoga in the galleries.
Greek, possibly Athenian: Statuette of a centaur, ca. 530 B.C. Cast bronze, h. 11.1 cm., w. 3.9 cm., l. 11.9 cm. Gift of Damon Mezzacappa (1997-36). Photo: Bruce M. White.
Greek, Attic, in the manner of the Gorgon Painter: Black-figure "Deianeira" lekythos, with mounted satyr pursuing a nymph, ca. 580 B.C. Ceramic, h. 31.7 cm., diam. 13.6 cm. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund and Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund (2007-39). Photo: Bruce M. White.
William Stafford's birthday cake and poetry reading.
The book 1000 Places to Visit is available in the Museum Store.
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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