| |  SUMMER EXHIBITION PARTY
WHEN: Thursday, July 19, 5:30-8:30 PM
WHERE: Art Museum Galleries, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Join us for a lively evening of music, refreshments, and family-friendly fun to celebrate the opening of our summer exhibitions, Encounters: Conflict, Dialogue, Discovery and Root & Branch—both now open and perfect for making unexpected discoveries. | |  Picnic on the Lawn
David Fincher's The Social Network
WHEN: Thursday, August 2, Picnic: 6:30-8:30 p.m.; Movie: dusk Celebrate the waning weeks of summer with a picnic on the Museum's lawn and a special family-oriented summer ArtWalk. Bring your loved ones and enjoy live music, activities, and great barbecue fare. Vegetarian offerings will be available. Then linger for our last outdoor film screening of the summer season: The Social Network (2010). The film starts at dusk, so bring a blanket or a chair and enjoy! Popcorn and soda will be served. Late Thursday programming is made possible by the generous support of Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. | |  Praenestine cista with engravings of the Dioscuri and the Judgment of Paris, about 300 B.C.
Galleries of Ancient Art Praenestine cistae are lidded cylindrical boxes found in graves of the 4th to 3rd centuries B.C. around the ancient city of Praeneste (present-day Palestrina). A frieze of engraved figures circles the body of this remarkably preserved cista. On the front the divine twins Castor and Pollux--known as the Dioscuri, the Sons of Zeus--stand on either side of a winged Lasa, a deity associated with death and with the goddess Turan, the Etruscan counterpart of Aphrodite. In the scene on the back, four Trojan youths observe the Judgment of Paris, in which Paris, the son of King Priam of Troy, judges which of three goddesses—Aphrodite, Hera, Athena—is "the fairest." Explore more highlights from the Ancient art collection online. | | Credits (top to bottom): Princeton University Art Museum. Photo: Bruce M. White. Guests enjoy a tour of The Life and Death of Buildings during the 2nd quarterly ArtWalk. 2011 Family Barbeque on the Museum lawn. Italy, Etruscan, vicinity of Palestrina: Praenestine cista with engravings of the Dioscuri and the Judgment of Paris, ca. 300 B.C.. Cast and hammered bronze, h. 41.3 cm., diam. 24.1 cm. Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund, and Hugh Leander Adams, Mary Trumbull Adams, and Hugh Trumbull Adams Princeton Art Fund (2011-154 a-b). © 2012 Princeton University Art Museum | | 
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