1 Morven Museum and Garden
Morven will return with ArtWalk programming in March 2013.
Free parking is available at this venue.
2 Cranbury Station Gallery
Stop by and participate in a live instructional watercolor session given by the Gallery’s owner, Kathleen Morolda.
3 Arts Council of Princeton/Paul Robeson Place
Do your holiday shopping at the Arts Council of Princeton’s Annual “Sauce for the Goose” Holiday ArtSale. It will run through December 22 and will showcase regional artists, artisans, and crafters, featuring a mix of fine art and functional crafts, including paintings, drawings, functional and decorative ceramics, and more!
4 Princeton Public Library
For information on ArtWalk programming, please visit princetonlibrary.org.
5 Small World Coffee
There will be a tasting of Small World’s Holiday Blend: organic Bali, El Salvador, and Ethiopian Harrar.
6 Labyrinth Books
For information on ArtWalk programming, please visit labyrinthbooks.com.
7 Historical Society of Princeton
Receive free admission to Bainbridge House to see exhibitions
on local history, including Einstein at Home, which closes January 13. Photographs and other memorabilia tell the story
of Einstein’s life in Princeton, his home from 1933 until his death
in 1955. Visitors are encouraged to bring a new, unwrapped toy to donate to the Toys for Tots Holiday Drive.
8 Firestone Library
First X, Then Y, Now Z: Landmark Thematic Maps introduces viewers to the early history of thematic mapping—the topical
layering (Z) of geographic space (X–Y)—through both quantitative and qualitative examples. On display are early, if not the earliest, thematic maps in various disciplines, such as meteorology, geology, hydrography, natural history, medicine, and sociology/economics. In some cases the maps literally changed the world in the sense that new scientific avenues of investigation resulted. Also, a selection of more fanciful “theme” maps, on literary subjects, love/marriage, and utopia, are shown.
9 Princeton University Art Museum
This evening is dedicated to honoring World AIDS Awareness Week (December 1–5). Using a plain blue screen, sounds, and voice-overs, director Derek Jarman’s Blue (1993) tells the story of his own terminal struggle with AIDS. Simultaneously, in the galleries, our focus will be on comfort, healing, and transcendence. There will be tours highlighting objects in our collections that reflect this theme, and refreshments will be served. Feel welcome to join us for a reflective evening.
10 Lewis Center for the Arts
On view will be an exhibition of recent work by students in fall semester courses in photography and graphic design and in a course called “Art for Everyone,” an exploration of whether the democratization of art production is a dreamed-of utopia, a universal banality, or a cultural nightmare. Refreshments will be served. Come back at 8:30 p.m. for a concert performance of Cole Porter’s musical comedy, Kiss Me, Kate, the classic “play-within-a-play” based on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. For more information visit princeton.edu/arts.
11 Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School
The Currency of an Altered State, is part of an ongoing series in which the Montclair-based painter Hanna von Goeler paints on top of existing currency to raise ethical, political, and aesthetic questions. These paintings fall into different categories of inquiry, including environmental concerns, social and economic disparities, immigration, politics, law, and geography. Using strategies such as association, inference, humor, and similitude, an enormous range of provocative ideas and multiple meanings are conveyed through these often gem-like miniature paintings, some of which evoke illuminated manuscripts.
