As someone who has loved art history and art museums my entire life, it excited me to no end that I would have a free museum with Monets and Warhols at my doorstep. I’ve gone to the Princeton University Art Museum more than your average student has, since I was in a freshman seminar that took place literally Read more about Julia Cury on her favorite gallery of the PUAM[…]
Who is David Lind? David: “Basically, David Lind is someone who wants to play music however he can, as much as he can.” David Lind has been playing music and writing songs since he was about 13. Towards the later half of his high school years songwriting became more than a hobby, playing in coffee Read more about David Lind Talks About Creativity, Failed Love, and Everything In-between[…]
Alice Maiden Edric Huang, Kathleen Ma, and Mariah Wilson are members of Songline, one of Princeton’s spoken word poetry groups. They’re performing this Thursday at the Art Museum’s event Failed Love, a a celebration of our museum’s artworks that were inspired by heartbreak. So, Edric and Kathleen, you’re performing together this Thursday at Failed Love. How Read more about Songline and Failed Love[…]
February 10, 2016 Sebastian Ortiz What sparked your interest in playing the guitar? Well I played the guitar in the 5th grade during a chorus concert and I took lessons for a week for that. Then I stopped for a few years and picked it back up during the 8th grade a bit more seriously, Read more about Evan Gedrich on (Failed) Love and the Arts[…]
February 10, 2016 Alison Herman For the single and the skeptical, the Princeton University Art Museum’s “Failed Love” is a can’t-miss. Beloved and broken-hearted alike can look forward to the performance of this jazz duo; Jordy, a jazz vocalist, with Alice on the upright bass. How does love play into jazz? Jordy: Jazz, like any Read more about ➳Jazz Duo: Alice + Jordy[…]
By Irene Burke I paused at a cobblestone roundabout as motorbikes and compact Citoens and Fiats sped by. A familiar face stared down from a lamppost, and I looked back incredulously. I was on a summer vacation with my family in the South of France, and I was amazed to spot an advertisement for the Read more about Salon Cézanne: Homecoming[…]
I’m from Princeton, have a farm here, teach at UPenn – I teach an art law seminar. I have a BA/MA in art history and a JD/MBA, so I have students who are in law and MBA programs and students in art and archeology programs. “What do you teach?” Artists rights, dealers, galleries, gallery operations, Read more about Nobody frames a picture like this[…]
Daughter: I’m a graduate student here. My mom’s visiting me. We went to the Congo exhibit, went to the Scream person. Classical Italian drawings. I come here a few times whenever my parents come to visit. My mom’s an art historian, a professor of Art History. Mother: I teach at Goucher College and Patterson as Read more about 500 years of wishes that survived[…]
“Do you come here a lot?” Woman 1: Yes, depends what’s on. “Do you guys always come together?” Woman 2: No, very rarely. This is maybe one of the first times we have come together. We do other places together. “What do you both do?” Woman 2: I’m a retired graphic designer, now I work Read more about It meant something to me at the time[…]
“So, what brings you to the museum? Are you a student here?” Yeah, I’m in Intro Painting. We have to come look at paintings, make a quick sketch, and answer a bunch of questions about the paintings. “Why this painting?” Because there is a chair (laughter) … last week I had to sit on the Read more about I’m learning how to look at things differently.[…]