Events

Presented by Marianne Grey, museum docent

There is something for families every Saturday at the Art Museum! Join us for drop-in self-guided tours, related arrt projects, and story time offered by the Princeton Public Library.

Presented by Marianne Grey, museum docent

Emerge celebrates global art and culture while educating the community about the challenges and obstacles facing developing regions. Emerge aims to increase awareness on such issues as poverty, healthcare, and human rights in these areas of the world. The Princeton University Art Museum will present a selection of beautiful crafts for sale made by artisans working with socially oriented craft organizations from throughout the developing world. Get your holiday shopping done early and show your support for this wonderful initiative!

Enjoy a docent-led tour of Winterthur and an opportunity to view Faces of a New Nation: American Portraits of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, then travel to Longwood Gardens for an evening visit.

Drawing inspiration from the Museum’s outstanding collection of Abstract Expressionist art and Truman Capote’s legendary 1966 “Party of the Century,” the Princeton University Art Museum invites you to an elegant Black and White Ball on Saturday, February 6, 2010. The evening will begin at 6 pm with cocktails at the Art Museum; dinner and dancing follows at 8 pm at Prospect House, featuring the sounds of the Alex Donner Orchestra. The Gala, presented by the Friends of the Museum, is an essential source of funding for educational and outreach programs.

Self-portraits and depictions of other artists by nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists from Goya to Warhol explore the concept of the artist as image. Prints and drawings from the Museum’s extensive collection, including works by Edgar Degas, Marc Chagall, and Edvard Munch, and other seldom-seen works like a self-portrait drawing by Paul Cézanne from the Pearlman Collection, illustrate the idea of the artist as a conceptual and historical construct in Western art.

The artistic process of Mannerist Bolognese painter Nosadella (active ca. 1530-1571) is revealed through an in-depth exploration of a single work, the Annunciation. Preparatory drawings, x-radiographs and other works by the artist trace the changes he made from initial composition to finished masterpiece.

In celebration of the opening of the Museum’s recently renovated medieval galleries, the Art Museum welcomes the Princeton Singers for two evenings of medieval music. Under the leadership of renowned composer and conductor Steven Sametz, the Princeton Singers is one of the nation’s preeminent chamber choirs, featuring a repertoire ranging from medieval to modern, including gospel, jazz, and popular song. A reception will follow in the Museum.

The exhibition will be the first of its kind devoted to the topic of Byzantine architectural representation, challenging long-held assumptions in Western art history and providing new ways of understanding Byzantine art and architecture from A.D. 300 to the early nineteenth century.

Inner Sanctum examines Nassau Hall's venerable Faculty Room as the symbolic center of the University, and explores the history and role of the room and its portraits in both reflecting and shaping Princeton's identity. The exhibition, to be held outside the Museum, in the Faculty Room itself, is accompanied by a publication, symposium, and seminar that focus on the ways in which art and spatial environment reinforce and otherwise influence each other in creating meaning.

Over the last ten years, “land” and “space” have become pressing subjects for artistic investigation, so much so that we can now speak of a new generation of environmental artists. Land, Space, Territory will explore this development and probe the reasons for its appearance at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The exhibition features the work of seven artists and two artist-teams: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Francis Alÿs, Yael Bartana, Andrea Geyer, Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Emre Hüner, Matthew Day Jackson, Lucy Raven, and Santiago Sierra. Using media that range from video and photography to digital animation, performance, and assemblage, these artists parse the economic, geopolitical, and phantasmatic conditions of land and space.