Lucia Allais, Assistant Professor of Architecture, Princeton University
Joel Smith, Curator of Photography, Princeton University Art Museum
Stanley Katz, Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Panel Moderator
Reception to follow in the Bernstein Gallery.

A panel discussion, “Architecture as Memorial” will be held in conjunction with the exhibition on October 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall, adjacent to the Gallery. An artist reception will immediately follow the talk at 6 p.m. in the Bernstein Gallery. Panelists include: Lucia Allais, assistant professor of architecture, Princeton University; Joel Smith, curator of photography, Princeton University Art Museum; and Stanley Katz, moderator, professor of public and international affairs and director of the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University. Both events are free and open to the public.

Sited Memory/Underground Shadows

August 29, 2011 – October 21, 2011

Eve Ingalls uses the surface of the raw canvas as if it is the surface of the earth. Through her markings, layers of the imprint of humans and nature over time are revealed as traces or shadows. The edges of the drawings serve as the boundaries of an archaeological dig. Alongside the shards of pots and evocations of ancient burial grounds and shifting landscape through the ages, the modern world is presented too by scientific charts, graphs and maps. Thus, the edges of the canvas locate the viewer simultaneously in the past and in the present, and visually express, in the artist’s own words, “a persistent palimpsest.”

Richardson Chamber Players presents Art and Memory
Sunday, October 16, 2011 at 3:00 p.m.

Free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.

Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist, and Frank Rich, former NY Times drama critic and columnist, writer for New York magazine

A Conversation between Stephen Sondheim and Frank Rich

September 26, 2011 (Cosponsored by the Spencer Trask Fund, the Belknap Program of the Council of the Humanities, the Performance Central Program of the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Triangle Club) NOTE: 8:00 p.m. at McCarter Theatre; free ticket required. Princeton University students, faculty, and staff with a TigerCard: Ticket distribution starts September 19 at noon at the University Ticketing office at the Frist Campus Center. Limit: 1 ticket per TigerCard (maximum of 2 TigerCards). Continues M-F 12-6 p.m. while supplies last. General public: Tickets are available for pickup at the McCarter Box Office beginning 12 noon. on September 19  and continuing M-Sat. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. while supplies last. Limit: 2 tickets per person.

Stephen Sondheim, composer and lyricist for Sweeney Todd and lyricist for West Side Story, won a Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Sunday in the Park. Frank Rich is the former New York Times drama critic and columnist, now writing for New York magazine. This event is cosponsored by Princeton University Public Lectures, the Belknap Program of the Council of the Humanities, the Lewis Center for the Arts, and the Triangle Club.

Stephen Joshua Sondheim (born March 22, 1930) is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards (eight, more than any other composer)including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre,[1] multiple Grammy Awards, and a Pulitzer Prize. Described by Frank Rich of the New York Times as “the greatest, and perhaps best-known artist working in musical theatre”,  his most famous scores include (as composer/lyricist) A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Sunday in the Park with George, Into the Woods, and Assassins. He also wrote the lyrics for West Side Story and Gypsy.

In addition to theatre, he has contributed to movies as well, including the 1981 Warren Beatty film Reds, contributing the song “Goodbye For Now”. He also wrote five songs for the 1990 movie Dick Tracy, including Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man), which won the Academy Award for Best Song.

He was also president of the Dramatists Guild from 1973 to 1981. On September 15, 2010, in honor of his 80th birthday, the Henry Miller’s Theatre was renamed the Stephen Sondheim Theatre in his honor. He is also the only living composer with a quarterly journal published in his name.