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November 2014 at Princeton University Museum of Art

On View Exhibitions

Chigusa and the Art of Tea in Japan

October 11 2014–February 1, 2015

Made in China in the late thirteenth or fourteenth century, the extraordinary tea-leaf storage jar named Chigusa spent the next seven hundred years in Japan, where it acquired great prestige as well as its individual name, which was chosen from court poetry. Centering on this revered object, the exhibition reveals, for the first time in an American museum context, how tea practice in Japan created a performative culture of seeing, using, and ascribing meaning to objects.

Tea-leaf storage jar named Chigusa dressed in its new mouth cover and ornamental knots. Jar made in China, probably Guangdong Province. Southern Song or Yuan dynasty, mid-13th to mid-14th century. Stoneware with iron glaze, height 41.6 cm; Mouth cover made in Japan by Tsuchida Y¯uk¯o (born 1939), 2013. Silk with gold supplementary weft and backing of plain-weave silk, 16.5 x 29.5 x 29.5 cm; Cords made in Japan, Meiji era, late 19th to early 20th century. Silk with synthetic indigo dye, varying lengths. Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., purchase

Kongo across the Waters

October 25, 2014–January 25, 2015

Drawn from the incomparable collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and other institutional and private collections, this ground-breaking exhibition examines five centuries of cultural exchange between the Kingdom of Kongo, Europe, and the United States, exploring the evolution of Kongo visual culture and its transmission into American art and cultural life through the transatlantic slave trade.

Special Events

Tour of Kongo across the Waters

Thursday, November 6, 2014

12:30 pm

Art Museum

Join Kristen Windmuller-Luna for a public tour of the special exhibition Kongo across the Waters.

Lecture: Art of Power, Power of Art: Kongo across the Waters

Thursday, November 6 

5:30 p.m.

101 McCormick

In honor of the opening of Kongo across the Waters, we welcome Wyatt MacGaffey, J. R. Coleman Professor Emeritus in Social Anthropology at Haverford College, who will speak about the Kongolese power objects known as minkisi. A reception in the Art Museum will follow.

Late Thursdays are made possible by the generous support of Heather and Paul Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support for this Late Thursday program is provided by the Frelinghuysen Foundation.

Lecture: Kongo or Congo? Violence, Modernism, and the Visual Unconscious of Belgian Colonialism, 1897-2013

Wednesday, November 12

5:30 p.m.

101 McCormick

Debora Silverman, professor of history and art history, UCLA, will discuss Kongo art and Belgian modernism in conjunction with the opening of the special exhibition Kongo across the Waters. A reception in the Art Museum will follow.

Late Thursdays are made possible by the generous support of Heather and Paul Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support for this Late Thursday program is provided by the Frelinghuysen Foundation.

In Conversation with Artists Reneé Stout and Radcliffe Bailey

Thursday, November 20

5:30 p.m.

Art Museum

Chika Okeke-Agulu, associate professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology, will moderate a conversation between Reneé Stout and Radcliffe Bailey, two artists whose work is included in Kongo across the Waters. A reception in the Art Museum will follow.

Late Thursdays are made possible by the generous support of Heather and Paul Haaga Jr., Class of 1970. Additional support for this Late Thursday program is provided by the Frelinghuysen Foundation.

Friends Holiday Shopping Event

Thursday, November 20, 10 am–10 pm
Friday, November 21, 10 am–5 pm

Art Museum

ANNUAL 20% OFF SALE DAYS for members at the Contributor, Curator’s Circle, Director’s Circle, and Partner levels

Gift wrapping and shipping services are available.

World AIDS Day/Day Without Art: Film and Lecture

Monday, December 1

7 p.m.

McCormick 101

On World AIDS Day/Day Without Art, we will screen How to Survive a Plague (2012, directed by David France), the story of ACT UP and TAG (Treatment Action Group), two coalitions whose activism and innovation assisted in transforming AIDS from a death sentence to a manageable condition.

Art for Families

Line, Shape, Color

November 1

Join us on Saturday mornings for family fun in the Art Museum. Drop in anytime between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. and enjoy an engaging gallery activity followed by a related art project. Each week has a different theme. Come for fifteen minutes or two hours-whatever your schedule allows! All ages are welcome; no tickets or reservations are needed. This week with a map and stickers to guide you, enjoy a scavenger hunt through the Museum and create a collage to take home.

All in the Family

November 8

Join us on Saturday mornings for family fun in the Art Museum. Drop in anytime between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. and enjoy an engaging gallery activity followed by a related art project. Each week has a different theme. Come for fifteen minutes or two hours--whatever your schedule allows! All ages are welcome; no tickets or reservations are needed. What do you notice when you examine The Hartley Family by Henry Benbridge? How will you dress the members of your family when you create a group portrait?

Art Tales

November 15

Join us on Saturday mornings for family fun in the Art Museum. Drop in anytime between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. and enjoy an engaging gallery activity followed by a related art project. Each week has a different theme. Come for fifteen minutes or two hours--whatever your schedule allows! All ages are welcome; no tickets or reservations are needed. This week hear stories from around the world and be inspired to create imaginative characters of your own.

An Enchanted Land

November 22

Join us on Saturday mornings for family fun in the Art Museum. Drop in anytime between 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m. and enjoy an engaging gallery activity followed by a related art project. Each week has a different theme. Come for fifteen minutes or two hours--whatever your schedule allows! All ages are welcome; no tickets or reservations are needed. This week calling all princes and princesses! Come explore Wassily Kandinsky’s Promenade and create a crown to wear home.