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https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections Princeton University Art Museum Princeton University Art Museum, which in normal times always has free admission, continues its generous ways with a wealth of on-line programming during the pandemic. A schedule of Zoom meetings with curators and Princeton University faculty members, who discuss various collections in the museum or lead roundtable discussions, is posted on the museum's website. Online gallery tours include one devoted to the work of Pablo Picasso. Downloadable kids' activities include an Andy Warhol-style Pop Art craft.

J. R. Eyerman, Audience Watches Movie  Wearing 3-D Spectacles, 1952. Gelatin  silver print, 29.2 × 21.6 cm.  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Howard  Greenberg Collection ©1952  The Picture Collection Inc. All rights reserved. LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography Saturday, February 22, 2020 - Sunday, June 21, 2020 From the Great Depression to the Vietnam War, the vast majority of the photographs printed and consumed in the United States appeared on the pages of illustrated magazines. Offering an in-depth look at the photography featured in Life magazine throughout its weekly run from 1936 to 1972, this exhibition examines how the magazine’s use of images fundamentally shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States. The work of photographers such as Margaret Bourke-White, Larry Burrows, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Frank Dandridge, Gordon Parks, and W. Eugene Smith is explored in the context of the creative and editorial structures at Life. Drawing on...

Paul Cézanne. Quarry at Bibémus (La Carrière de Bibémus), 1898–1900. Oil on canvas, 65.41 x 54.61 cm. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. Gift of Henry W. and Marion H. Bloch Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings Saturday, March 7, 2020 - Sunday, June 14, 2020 Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings is the first major exhibition to examine an essential but understudied aspect of the revolutionary French painter’s work: his profound interest in rock and geological formations. Throughout his career, Cézanne made canvases that take rock formations as their principal subjects. Although they are among the artist’s most extraordinary landscapes, such paintings of geological forms have never before been the focus of significant scholarship. Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings will feature approximately 15 of the most important of these paintings, as well as selected watercolors and related documentary material. Together, they reveal the artist’s fascination with geology, which helped shape th...