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Thursday, August 6, 2020

American Nation, American Nature: Nurturing Each in the Anthropocene

5:30 PM EDT

How has nature’s representation, literally and figuratively, broadly conditioned American culture, even as nature, too, is under unprecedented stress? And how has each of these concepts—liberty, democracy, and nature—influenced the other? What is their future in a time of extraordinary challenges to bedrock values?

RESCHEDULED Art-Making | Drawing: Anatomy, Skeletal and Muscular Structures

8:00 PM EDT

The Art Museum is partnering with the Arts Council of Princeton to provide free, live, online art-making experiences, to be held Thursday evenings at 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Members Event | Gertrude Jekyll, the Garden, and the Photograph

5:30 PM EDT

This richly illustrated talk by James Steward, Nancy A. Nasher–David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976, Director, will take us on a summer armchair tour of a few of Gertrude Jekyll’s garden designs, as well as her achievement as a woman who pioneered new ways of seeing in the early 20th century.

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Landscape, Campus and Community

5:30 PM EDT

James Corner will join Ron McCoy, Princeton’s University Architect, in a conversation about the role of landscape in the design of cities and the campus.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Members Event | End of an Era: Life Magazine’s Final Decade

5:30 PM EDT

Join us for an exclusive, members-only online event with the curators of Life Magazine and the Power of Photography, who will discuss the role photography played in the weekly magazine during the years leading up to its final issue in December 1972.

Thursday, August 20, 2020

"A Gigantic Glittering Dome of Stars": Ansel Adams and the Value of Wilderness

5:30 PM EDT

Rebecca Senf, author of the recent Making a Photographer: The Early Work of Ansel Adams, will talk about the photographer's experiences and how they can be seen in his artwork.