NEWS FROM THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM

 

eNewsletter March 16, 2022     Artist Conversation Alan Michelson and Christopher Green Thursday, March 17, 5:30 p.m. (ET) Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71, or stream it online   The artist Alan Michelson, a Mohawk member of the Six Nations of the Grand River, joins Christopher Green, visiting assistant professor of art history at Lake Forest College, to discuss his recent work, including photo and video installations in Native America: In Translation. The exhibition is on view at Art on Hulfish through April 24. Program details and free registration here.       Opening Celebration Elizabeth Colomba: Repainting the Story On view through May 8 Art@Bainbridge   Our new exhibition at Art@Bainbridge features paintings by Elizabeth Colomba that foreground historical and fictional Black women, often richly dressed and placed in the opulent spaces from which they have been erased or in which they were assigned subservient roles. Colomba’s radical resettings of established themes in Western art and culture present her heroines—including the biblical Eve, the mythological Danaë, and the model Laure, who posed as the servant in Édouard Manet’s painting Olympia—as central and universal figures. Join us for the exhibition’s opening celebration this Sunday, March 20.       Campus Art Outdoor Walking Tours   Princeton University is home to one of the country’s most significant collections of twentieth- and 21st-century public sculpture. Join a guided walking tour of the campus collections with an Art Museum student tour guide and discover a variety of artworks by modern and contemporary sculptors, from Henry Moore to Maya Lin. Learn about materials and techniques and explore elements of design and balance.   We offer one-hour tours of sculptures in two campus neighborhoods: Main Campus and Residential Colleges. All tours are held outdoors, rain or shine, and are stair-free. Tours begin this weekend, full schedule here.       Author Talk Steven Naifeh: Van Gogh—His Life and His Art Thursday, March 24, 5:30 p.m. (ET) Stream it live   Steven Naifeh, Class of 1974, Pulitzer Prize–winning and New York Times–best-selling coauthor, with Gregory White Smith, of Jackson Pollock: An American Saga and Van Gogh: The Life, has now written Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved. In this program, hear Naifeh speak on writing a biography of an artist and on how an artist's life sheds light on their art. Introduced by Museum Director James Steward.       Elson International Artist-in-Residence Teresa Margolles Thursday, March 31, 5:30 p.m. (ET) Friend Center, Room 101, or stream it online   Join us for a conversation with the Mexican multimedia artist Teresa Margolles, the Art Museum’s 2022 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence, and Christina León, assistant professor of English. Margolles’s practice explores the connections between marginality and violence, especially in relation to groups that are vulnerable to the devastating effects of social unrest, impoverishment, and urban blight resulting from government corruption. Details and free registration here.       In the News Contemporary Art Exhibit Brings "Sea Change" to Prospect House Featured in the Princeton Alumni Weekly   The art on view in Prospect House, which will be on display for at least a year, was chosen by the Campus Art Steering Committee. James Steward, director of the Art Museum, said the idea was to showcase art that is inclusive of the wider campus community. Bringing contemporary art to Prospect—a building that dates to the mid-1800s and served as the University president’s house for nearly a century—is “a sea change, and one that I think will be enlivening and very fresh,” Steward added. Read more.       Museum Store   The Museum Store offers exhibition-related keepsakes, art books, jewelry, creative activities for children, distinctive works by regional artisans, and more.   Celebrate Women’s History Month with our collection of fine handcrafted jewelry by Brooklyn artist Ashka Dymel. Inspired by modernist movements and mid-twentieth-century design, her unique jewelry achieves harmony in modular repetitions and variations on geometric forms, as seen in the necklace above.   Each purchase supports the Museum’s core mission to educate, challenge, and inspire. Shop in person at 56 Nassau Street in downtown Princeton or online at PrincetonMuseumStore.org. Members receive a discount on every purchase; join today!   Image credits Left: Alan Michelson. Photo by Karolina Sobel; right: Christopher Green. Courtesy of the speaker   Elizabeth Colomba. Courtesy of the artist   Teresa Margolles. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan, New York. Photo by Antonio de la Rosa   Katherine Boyce, Class of 2011, created the abstract landscape painting Pools, now on display at Princeton's Prospect House. Photo by Ricardo Barros       Princeton University Art Museum McCormick Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 Copyright © 2022 Trustees of Princeton University All rights reserved.