Arts at Princeton

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Technically, all we're doing is singing falsetto. At some level, we are doing something everyone can do. It does feel and sound extremely rarified. For people who have never heard it before — and I love this — it has a sort of novelty about it that is very exciting. I think that quickly turns into an engagement with the material itself. That's what I love about being a countertenor; I can sing for people who don't know anything about opera and there is something shocking about it for them, but it allows them to pay attention in a way they might not if it were, say, an operatic sound they've heard before.

Anthony Roth Costanzo ‘04, on being a countertenor. Read story on nj.com

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Gracie became a ballet dancer at Lincoln Center. All she wanted to do was dance on the platform. She didn’t care for the eyes, she believed in traversing the parallel tracks, ricocheting between giants. Forget grace.

Hillel Rosenshine, “I Know New York” New York, NY. This is stanza 8 of Rosenshine’s poem that won 1st place in Princeton University’s Program in Creative Writing 2016 High School Poetry Contest. Read the rest of Rosenshine’s poem and the other winners’ poems here.

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I spent half or more of my campus life at 185 Nassau (The Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University). It was and is a spiritual home. I would like to go back to that period and re-live it once more.

Filmmaker Rudy Lin ‘09. Read more about her Princeton experience and see samples of her current work. Explore more about other Princeton graduates now working in TV and film.

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Most people belong all their life to Kappa Kappa Gamma, or the Hunting Set, or Boston Back Bay. My father belonged all his life to Princeton. … I believe that Princeton played a bigger part in his life as an author and as a man than any other single factor.

Frances Scott Fitzgerald, on F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nassau Lit, 1942 (via princetonarchives)

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Princeton Bridge Year Peru takes on Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off”

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Thanks, McCarter Theatre (our neighbor at Princeton University!), for the lovely tribute

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Happy Halloween from the Princeton University Art Museum! Perhaps these works from our collection may inspire some costume ideas. View photo gallery. Pictured: Giacomo del Po, Italian, 1652-1726, Gates of Hell, ca. 1703–1708 (detail).

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Princeton University's outdoor sculpture collection includes magnificent works such as "Song of the Vowels" (1931-32), above, by Jacques Lipchitz, 1891-1973, cast bronze. Photo: Denise Applewhite

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The Princeton University Art Museum has received nearly $100,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to fund the digitization of over 5,000 photographs from the museum's Minor White Archive. Above: Minor White, American, Tom Murphy, San Francisco, 1948. Gelatin silver print.  The Minor White Archive, Princeton University Art Museum, bequest of Minor White. Photo Bruce M. White. © Trustees of Princeton University

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Our world is enriched when coders and marketers dazzle us with smartphones and tablets, but, by themselves, they are just slabs. It is the music, essays, entertainment and provocations that they access, spawned by the humanities, that animate them — and us.

Nicholas Kristof on the importance of the humanities in the digital age in The New York Times Aug. 13, 2014. The story mentions Princeton professor Peter Singer.

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I have YOUNG and TALENTED friends

Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa, Princeton Class of 2014, sings "Rebel Woman"

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La dolce vita! The coolest trends in architecture — and Princeton's there. This year's Venice Architecture Biennale showcases the work of a number of Princeton faculty and students. Read more.

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The Princeton University Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. Read more about the exhibition or view the galleries. Here are the this year’s winning images: First place (top): Watermarks by Sara Sadri (postdoctoral researcher) Second place (middle, left): Fungus among us by James S. Waters (postdoctoral researcher) Third place (middle, right): Portrait of the artist in the air shower by Yasmin Afsar (graduate student) People’s Choice (bottom): Fruit fly factory by Yogesh Goyal (graduate student), Bomyi Lim (graduate student), Miriam Osterfield (post-doc), Stas Shvartsman (faculty)

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When I was a teenager I attended a writing camp and it was there that I discovered that art-making can be a vibrant part of your life. Up until then, I never had looked at actually having a job in the arts. I thought it was quirky and esoteric.

— visiting assistant professor of creative writing and the Lewis Center for the Arts, quoted in Boise Weekly, 6/18/2014