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eNewsletter October 23, 2024       Film Screenings Australian Cinema Classics Princeton Garden Theatre   Picnic at Hanging Rock (1978)  Thursday, October 24, 7 p.m.  Director Peter Weir’s adaptation of a 1967 novel portrays a schoolgirls’ outing, saturated in a hazy innocence, in early twentieth-century Victoria, Australia. Weir punctures the dreamy idyll with anxieties about class, race, sexual repression, and the unforgiving landscape of a country struggling with national identity and the abuses and limits of its colonial legacy. Introduced by Laura Giles, curator of prints and drawings.   Reserve your free ticket at the Princeton Garden Theatre website.   The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1994)  Wednesday, November 6, 7 p.m.  This Oscar-winning film tells the story of a glamourous trio of Sydney-based drag performers who take their show to the middle of the Australian outback, traveling in a battered old bus nicknamed Priscilla. Introduced by Museum Director James Steward.   Reserve your free ticket at the Princeton Garden Theatre website.  The films are screened in conjunction with the exhibition Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography, on view through January 5, 2025 at Art on Hulfish.       Save the Date Cultural Institutions in Changing Times: Collections Face Challenges Sunday, November 3, 5 p.m. McCosh Hall 50   Katherine E. Fleming, President and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and scholar of Mediterranean history, religion, and culture, will deliver a talk at McCosh 50. Cosponsored by Friends of Princeton University Library and the Princeton University Library.        Save the Date SAB Visiting Artist Conversation: Shahzia Sikander and James Steward Thursday, November 7, 5:30 p.m. Julis Romo Rabinowitz 399 The Princeton University Art Museum Student Advisory Board welcomes MacArthur Prize–winning artist Shahzia Sikander in conversation with Museum Director James Steward. Engaging ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through feminist perspectives, Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics, and sculpture explore gender, sexuality, racial narratives, and colonial histories, showcasing art of the South Asian diaspora as a contemporary American tradition. Reception to follow.       Drawing from the Collections Drawing Light with Pastels Thursdays, November 7, 14, 21 and December 5, 8 p.m.   Join us for free pastel-drawing classes taught over Zoom by artist-instructor Barbara DiLorenzo. Classes are offered in partnership with the Arts Council of Princeton and are part of Arts and Health Mercer. Lessons are inspired by works in the Museum’s collections depicting light.  Abstraction and Light  Thursday, November 7  Exploring Color Values  Thursday, November 14  Warm and Cool Colors  Thursday, November 21  Reflections  Thursday, December 5          Museum Store Linen Fabric Smart Book Light Designed by Gingko in Warwick, UK, this ingenious sculptural light resembles a natural-looking linen notebook. When turned on, it emits a warm LED light through its water-resistant and tear-proof Tyvek pages, which can be opened a full 360 degrees. Made with sustainable linen fabric.  Shop in person at 56 Nassau Street in downtown Princeton or online at princetonmuseumstore.org. Members receive a discount on every purchase. Join today!          Images Shazia Sikhander. Photo: Matin Hyde Solomon, Sky and Mountain, 1973. Gift of Mrs. George Poindexter in memory of William C. Seitz, Graduate School Class of 1955. © Hyde Solomon. Art@Bainbridge is made possible through the generous support of the Virginia and Bagley Wright, Class of 1946, Program Fund for Modern and Contemporary Art; the Kathleen C. Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Ivy Beth Lewis.   Additional support for Helène Aylon: Undercurrent is provided by Princeton University’s Center for Culture, Society and Religion; Office of Religious Life; Program in Judaic Studies; Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies; and Department of Religion. Art on Hulfish is made possible by the leadership support of Annette Merle-Smith and Princeton University. Generous support is also provided by William S. Fisher, Class of 1979, and Sakurako Fisher; J. Bryan King, Class of 1993; John Diekman, Class of 1965, and Susan Diekman; Julie and Kevin Callaghan, Class of 1983; Annie Robinson Woods, Class of 1988; Barbara and Gerald Essig; Rachelle Belfer Malkin, Class of 1986, and Anthony E. Malkin; the Curtis W. McGraw Foundation; Tom Tuttle, Class of 1988, and Mila Tuttle; Nancy A. Nasher, Class of 1976, and David J. Haemisegger, Class of 1976; the Len & Laura Berlik Foundation; Gene Locks, Class of 1959, and Sueyun Locks; and Palmer Square Management.    Under a Southern Star: Identity and Environment in Australian Photography is curated by Deborah Klochko, former executive director and chief curator, Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art; and Graham Howe, founder and CEO, Curatorial Exhibitions; with Ashley Lumb, independent curator. This exhibition was originated by the Museum of Photographic Arts at the San Diego Museum of Art, with generous support from the Farrell Family Foundation and is toured by Curatorial Exhibitions, Pasadena, California.  LATE THURSDAYS! Thursday-evening programming is made possible in part by Heather and Paul G. Haaga Jr., Class of 1970.      Become a member.                Make a gift.   Art@Bainbridge 158 Nassau Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 Art on Hulfish 11 Hulfish Street, Princeton, NJ 08542 Copyright © 2024 Trustees of Princeton University All rights reserved.