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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

AN AFTER HOURS TREAT @ THE ZIMMERLI THE 1ST WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH

The Zimmerli Museum at Rutgers University is a real (and unknown to many) treasure. This program looks very interesting…especially for those who (like me) loves being treated specially after hours at a museum:

Art after Hours: First Wednesdays
at the Zimmerli

WHEN: Wednesday, May 4, 5:00 – 9:00 PM (Throughout the museum )
WHERE: Zimmerli Art Museum, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick
TICKETS: $6 general admission. Admission is FREE to museum members and Rutgers students, faculty, and staff.

Art After Hours gives Rutgers University students and community members the opportunity to engage in a multifaceted approach to the arts. Held on the first Wednesday of every month, the series complements the museum’s innovative exhibitions with lectures, music and dance performances, exhibition tours, poetry slams, films, performance art and more. Refreshments and 20% discount in the Museum Store.


May's after hours activities celebrate the opening of Mystics and Moderns: Painting in Estonia before Glasnost, including a reception, curator-led tour, concert and film screening.

Toomas Vint, A Child in a Seaside Meadow, 1974, oil on canvas. © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / EAU, Talinn. Estonia became an important center for underground art in the late 1960s. Turning to painting, artists reclaimed this medium from official Soviet Realism, reviving the European, painterly origins of Estonia's avant-garde past. Painting constituted a laboratory for artists to reject or assimilate contemporary trends from the West. They adapted Pop, Conceptualism, hard-edge abstraction, and Minimalism to a unique culture of nationalist opposition to Soviet power. Mystics and Moderns: Painting in Estonia before Glasnost, curated by Dodge Lawrence Fellow Jeremy Canwell, draws on rarely-seen works from the museum's Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art. (Left: Toomas Vint, A Child in a Seaside Meadow, 1974, oil on canvas. © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / EAU, Talinn.)

  • 5:00 to 5:30 PM / EXHIBITION RECEPTION
    This event celebrates the opening of Mystics and Moderns: Painting in Estonia before Glasnost.
  • 5:30 to 5:50 PM / CURATOR-LED TOUR
    Tour of Mystics and Moderns led by Jeremy Canwell, exhibition curator and Dodge-Lawrence Fellow at the Zimmerli.
  • 6:00 to 6:45 PM / MUSICAL PERFORMANCE
    Classical music by Estonian composer Arvo Pärt played by James Keene, Aimee McPeak and Hsin-Yi Tsai of Mason Gross School of the Arts.
  • 7:00 to 8:45 PM / FILM SCREENING
    Most people don't think about singing when they think about revolutions, but song was the weapon of choice when, between 1987 and 1991, Estonians fought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. During those years, hundreds of thousands gathered in public to sing forbidden patriotic songs and to rally for independence. James Tusty and Maureen Castle Tusty's The Singing Revolution tells the moving story of how the Estonian people peacefully regained their freedom—and helped topple an empire along the way.