 This Week at the Lewis CenterMarch 16, 2014
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Image by Buse Aktas
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A senior thesis exhibition
by Buse Aktas
Last day to view! Friday, March 14
The Program in Visual Arts is presenting Daire, a senior thesis exhibition by certificate student Buse Aktas, on view through Friday, March 14 in the Lucas Gallery and across the University campus. Aktas' work includes several site-specific outdoor installations and other process-based artworks, such as excavating a buried item near Blair Arch and rolling a sewage drainage pipe across campus. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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Image by Lauren Schwartz
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A senior thesis exhibition
by Lauren Schwartz
Last day to view! Friday, March 14
The Program in Visual Arts is presenting [For]Bilder, a senior thesis exhibition by certificate student Lauren Schwartz, on view through Friday, March 14 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. Schwartz paints acrylic portraits with metal leafing of strong female role models such as German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and she creates sculptural items of clothing from recycled painted canvases. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
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Photo by Clare Arentzen
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A senior thesis exhibition by Clare Arentzen
Monday, March 24 - Friday, March 28
The Program in Visual Arts will present Hand {Made} Ready, a senior thesis exhibition by certificate student Clare Arentzen, on view from March 24 through 28 in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau Street. Arentzen's exhibition will include collections of natural found objects, ready-made found objects, and handmade objects rooted in her interests in biology, natural history, process, and her midwestern upbringing. An opening reception will be held in the Lucas Gallery on Thursday, March 27 at 7:00 p.m. Gallery hours are weekdays from 10:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
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Photo by Walter McBride
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Conversation and master class with Broadway actor Becky Ann Baker
Tuesday, March 25 at 3:00 p.m.
The Music Theater Lab is presenting a series of guests "in conversation" as part of Professor of Theater Stacy Wolf's spring seminar course "The Musical Theatre of Stephen Sondheim." On Tuesday, March 25, television, film, and Broadway actor Becky Ann Baker will discuss and lead a master class on "Acting Sondheim Songs." In 2004 Baker starred in the Tony Award-winning Broadway revival of Sondheim's Assassins. The conversation will begin at 3:00 p.m. in Room 219 at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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Featuring Paul Muldoon, Idra Novey, Jim Richardson and Milberg Poetry Prize-winning students
Tuesday, March 25 at 6:00 p.m.
Labyrinth Books and the Lewis Center will host a reading on March 25 featuring Program in Creative Writing faculty members Paul Muldoon, Idra Novey, and James Richardson, along with three young debut poets: Adina Lasser, Tim D. Housand, and Katie Hibner. The young poets are the winners of the 2014 Leonard L. Milberg '53 Secondary School Poetry Prize, which is awarded annually and open internationally to high school students in the eleventh grade. The reading, beginning at 6:00 p.m. at Labyrinth Books at 122 Nassau Street in Princeton, is free and open to the public.
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Lecture by Michael Cramer on Peter Watkins' BBC films
Thursday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m.
The Program in Visual Arts will present the second of four lectures in the "4 the Love of Film" series on Thursday, March 27. Visiting Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies at SUNY-Purchase College Michael Cramer will speak on "Inform, Educate, and Aestheticize: Documentary and Art in Peter Watkins' BBC Films." The focus of Cramer's talk will be on two films directed and produced by Watkins for BBC Television: 1964's Culloden and 1965's The War Game, which were widely seen upon their release as marking a critical shift in documentary filmmaking. The lecture will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street and is free and open to the public.
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Photo by COSTAS
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Lecture/demonstration on the ballet "Phaedra"
Thursday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m.
The Phaedra Project will present members of the acclaimed Martha Graham Dance Company performing scenes from Graham's ballet, Phaedra, on Thursday, March 27. A reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Paul Muldoon, Princeton's Howard G.B. Clark '21 University Professor in the Humanities, will accompany the dance performance. The event will begin at 4:30 p.m. at the Berlind Theatre at McCarter Theatre Center. Part of "Myth in Transformation: The Phaedra Project" at Princeton, the event is free and open to the public.
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Photo courtesy Erskine Childers
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Fund for Irish Studies lecture by Erskine Childers
Friday, March 28 at 4:30 p.m.
Writer and Irish historian Erskine Childers will lecture on "The Riddle of Erskine Childers" as part of the Fund for Irish Studies lecture series on Friday, March 28. Childers will talk about his great-grandfather Robert Erskine Childers, an author, political activist, and major figure in the Irish revolution. The lecture, beginning at 4:30 p.m. in the James M. Stewart '32 Theater at 185 Nassau Street, is free and open to the public.
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Work by Pam Lins, Joe Scanlan, and the late
Sarah Charlesworth
Faculty from the Program in Visual Arts at the Lewis Center have been selected to represent the best of contemporary art in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. Work by Director and Professor Joe Scanlan is on view under the name Donelle Woolford, an artist Scanlan created to represent a disparate art practice. In collaboration with Amy Sillman, Lecturer Pam Lins created "Fells," a hybrid structure that incorporates paintings into a sculpture. Photography by the late Sarah Charlesworth, who was a Class of 1932 Visiting Lecturer in Visual Arts from fall 2012 through spring 2013 at the Lewis Center, is also on view. The Biennial runs through May 25, 2014, at the Whitney Museum of American Art at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City.
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Photo by Tom Grimes
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Director and Professor of Dance Susan Marshall is collaborating with Naomi Leonard, the Edwin S. Wilsey Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Daniel Trueman, Professor of Music, on an exploration of how complex flocking motions emerge among animals. Their project, "Flock Logic," is among those awarded inaugural Dean for Research Innovation Fund Awards at Princeton. All of the recipient projects push the boundaries of research in the natural sciences, encourage research partnerships with industry, or facilitate collaborations between investigators in the arts and sciences or engineering. Read more about "Flock Logic" and the other projects here.
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