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Vol. LXIII, No. 10
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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Vol. LXIII, No. 10
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
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 (Photo by Bruce M. White for the Princeton University Art Museum)
“THE BIKERS”: This detail from a work by Zhang Hongtu is part of “Outside In,” an exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum that explores what it means to be Chinese, American, and contemporary in the art world. These images of people biking toward and away from the viewer, respectively, are positioned on two hanging scrolls. Images of a 15th century Chinese landscape painting and Mao Zedong’s handwriting can be seen in the background of the scrolls. From a Chinese-Muslim family, Mr. Hongtu describes his time in Beijing as one of a perpetual outsider looking in. |
“Outside In,” a new exhibit at the Princeton University Art Museum, aims to dismantle any preconceived notions of what a mixture of Chinese, American, and contemporary art might look like.
The exhibit, “150+ Years of Princeton Public Schools: A Pictorial Retrospective,” was taking shape this week as students, teachers, and volunteers busily prepared for the exhibit’s official opening on Wednesday, March 18, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. in Princeton High School’s Numina Gallery. Sponsored by the Princeton Education Foundation (PEF), the event is free and open to the public.
Saying that he was tired of “new wave criticism,” author Peter Brooks described his quest for “a new way to do it.” The solution proved to be the book Henry James Goes to Paris, an examination of James’s year in Paris (1875 to 1876), and its consequences.