NEWS FROM THE PRINCETON UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM

 

June 22, 2022     Exhibition Events Screen Time   Screen Time: Photography and Video Art in the Internet Age, now on view at Art on Hulfish, features a global, intergenerational group of contemporary artists who explore a society in which online culture is omnipresent and new platforms for self-expression are constantly evolving.    The Museum invites you to create your own video portrait inspired by Screen Time. Join us Thursday, June 30, at 5:30 p.m. for a workshop with New Jersey–based photographer Christopher Lopez to learn how to create a video portrait using your smartphone. Submit portraits here by Monday, July 11; select submissions will be featured on the Museum’s social media and during a celebration at Art on Hulfish on Thursday, July 21, at 5:30 p.m.        Exhibition Body Matters / Martha Friedman Art@Bainbridge   Body Matters presents two new series of sculptures by Martha Friedman, a Princeton faculty member who draws inspiration from ancient Egyptian mummification, Greco-Roman portrait busts, nineteenth-century public monuments, and drawings of the brain structure and nerves by the early twentieth-century neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal. In bringing together these influences, Friedman mines the space between visceral and intellectual experiences of the body to consider the ways in which our physical forms shape our understandings of being human. See the exhibition at Art@Bainbridge, on view through Sunday, July 10.         Save the Date Summer Film Series   This year’s outdoor film series features three of our favorite musical films from across the decades. All screenings begin at sundown (approximately 8 p.m.) on campus at Alexander Beach, located behind Alexander Hall. Bring chairs or blankets—we’ll provide the popcorn.   Thursday, July 7: Singin’ in the Rain (1952)   Thursday, July 14: Chicago (2002)   Thursday, August 4: La La Land (2016)         Campus Art Outdoor Walking Tours Saturdays and Sundays   Princeton University is home to one of the country’s most significant collections of twentieth- and twenty-first-century public sculpture. Join a free, hour-long walking tour led by a Museum tour guide and discover the campus’s outdoor artworks, including Henry Moore’s bronze Oval with Points, monumental geometric screens by Louise Nevelson, and more.  In July and August, tours will start each Saturday and Sunday at 5 p.m. Meet in front of Nassau Hall and dress for the weather—tours will take place rain or shine. More details here.        Museum Store   Our Store offers sisal baskets handwoven in Eswatini. Using Swazi weaving techniques, women artisans create brilliantly hued, meticulously woven baskets out of sisal, an invasive weed that grows throughout the country. Baskets make a beautiful table display or fruit holder, or can be hung as art.  Each Store 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 10% discount on every purchase. Join today!    Image credits Marilyn Minter, Yellow Sparkle, 2007. The EKARD Collection. © Marilyn Minter, Courtesy Regen Projects   Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Seated Male Nude, ca. 1618–24. Princeton University Art Museum. Museum purchase, Laura P. Hall Memorial Fund and Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund  Left: Martha Friedman, Bust 2, from the series Mummy Wheat, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. © Martha Friedman. Photo: Kristine Eudey; Right: Flooding Thought 14 from A Natural Thickening of Thought (detail), 2022. Courtesy of the artist and Jessica Silverman, San Francisco. © Martha Friedman      Princeton University Art Museum McCormick Hall Princeton, NJ 08544 Copyright © 2022 Trustees of Princeton University All rights reserved.