Bits & Pieces Pottery and Clay Modeling Exhibit On Tuesday,
April 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., please stop by Harry’s Bar
to see the beautiful work created by the artists who participated
in the Pottery, Clay Modeling, and Beading classes. Art Lecture
Series Tuesday, April 3, and Tuesday, April 17, 5:00 p.m.
Wolfensohn Hall On April 3, Martha Ward, Associate Pro-fessor of
Art History at the University of Chicago, will give the lecture,
“Crowded Walls: Twentieth-Century Nostalgia for Nineteenth-Century
Installation.” On April 17, the lecture “Sperm Bomb: Art,
Femi-nism, and the American War in Vietnam,” will be given by
Mignon Nixon, Professor at the Courtauld Institute of Art,
University of London. Hudson Valley AMIAS Trip On Saturday,
April 21, AMIAS is sponsor-ing a trip to New York’s Hudson Valley
region to visit two museums, Dia:Beacon, displaying art from the
1960s to the present, and Storm King, a 500-acre sculpture park.
The price is $30 per adult and $20 per child, age five to thirteen.
The bus will depart at 8:00 a.m. and returns to IAS at 7:00 p.m.
Please note that this trip may not be appro-priate for young
children. Please visit the AMIAS trips page on the website
(www. ias.edu/people/amias/trips) to regis-ter. Space is
limited. Please contact Linda Cooper for further information at
[email protected]. Leon Levy Lecture Thursday, April 26, 6:00 p.m.
Dilworth Room W. Bentley MacLeod, Leon Levy Founda-tion Member in
the School of Social Sci-ence and Sami Mnaymneh Professor of
Economics and Professor of International and Public Affairs at
Columbia University, will speak about the economics of employ-ment
contracts. A reception will begin at 5:30 p.m.
Tennis Lessons On Mondays and Wednesdays this month, tennis
instructor Kevin Cooper will be giving lessons for beginners and
advanced players. Reservations are
requested through the AMIAS website,
www.ias.edu/people/amias.
Founded in 1974, the Association of Members of the Institute for
Advanced Study (AMIAS) is the organization of scholars and
researchers who are current or former Members of or Visitors to the
Institute. Its central purpose is to support the mission of the
Institute and to continue for future generations the opportunities
for independent, undistracted scholarship that AMIAS members have
experienced.
TIMES at THE INSTITUTE April 2012 Volume 8, Issue 8
Times at the Institute is published by the Association of
Members of the Institute for Advanced Study (AMIAS)
Editorial Board:
Linda Cooper, Brig Gebert, Helen Goddard, Kelly Devine
Thomas
Layout and design: Brig Gebert
Photos:
Brig Gebert, Linda Cooper, Helen Goddard, Ashley Thomas
Einstein Drive, Princeton, New Jersey, 08540 www.ias.edu •
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Please contact Linda Cooper with questions about AMIAS
Activities at (609) 734-8259 or [email protected].
See also the AMIAS website at www.ias.edu/about/amias for
information about AMIAS activities and to read past issues of Times
at the Institute.
Please send comments or contributions for this publication to
[email protected].
INSTITUTE for ADVANCED STUDY
Nassau Swim Club The Nassau Swim Club, located just a short walk
from IAS on Springdale Road, is ac-cepting applications for
membership www.nassauswimclub.org. The IAS com-munity is given
special pricing. Please call the club for information (908)
874-8668.
Communiversity 2012 Brig Gebert writes:
It’s that time of year again: Communiversity will take place on
Saturday, April 28 (rain or shine), from 12:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Arts Council of Princeton and the students of Princeton
University started this annual tradition in 1970 as “The Art
People’s Party” on the lawn of Nassau Hall. Be prepared for a large
crowd usually not seen in Princeton, since it now attracts more
than 40,000 visitors. Leave the car at home and walk to town.
Palmer Square, Witherspoon Street, and parts of Nassau Street will
be closed to traffic. Enjoy the (hopefully) nice spring weath-er
and the multitude of entertainment and food our area has to offer.
Visit www.artscouncilofprinceton.org for more information.
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April 2012 Helen Goddard writes:
If you walk out of the Fuld Hall Common Room, head straight down
to the Woods, turn to your right along the Trolley Track path, and
keep walking, you will eventually come to Updike Farmstead. It
makes a very pleasant twenty- minute walk taking you past Clarke
House on your right, largely hidden by trees, until you come to a
T-junction with the wide track that leads up to the Quaker Meeting
House and old cemetery. Do not turn up
there, except as an interesting diversion, but cross over and
follow the narrower but still distinct footpath that goes straight
ahead, then bears left, and follows close by Quaker Road until you
reach the com-plex of white buildings that form Updike Farmstead.
Or, of course, you could drive there!
This old farmhouse is owned and run by the Historical Society of
Princeton and there is a room with several photo-graphs showing the
history of the Updike family. The last
inhabitants, brother and sister Sarah and Stanley Updike, died
in 2002. In a memoir of early childhood, there is an account of
taking the trolley (yes, that is why the path along the edge of the
Woods is called the Trolley Track) to Trenton to see Barnum’s
Circus. (For a good read about circus life, try Sarah Gruen’s Water
for Elephants set in post-Depression America.) The farmhouse
kitchen displays a
range dating from the early 1800s and 1950s kitchen cabinets, as
well as a timeline of modernization, such as electrifica-tion and
indoor plumbing. Currently there is an exhibition of watercolor
land-scapes by Ellen Wilson, wife of
Woodrow Wilson, who was President of the United States from 1913
to 1921. Ellen Wil-son put her art aside to bring up three
daughters but turned back to painting as they grew older. She was
able to put fifty paintings into the “American Impressionist” Arts
and Crafts Guild Exhibition in Philadelph-ia in 1913, shortly
before the inauguration ceremony for her husband. Sadly, she died
rather suddenly from Bright’s disease the following year. In her
short time in the White House, she
set a precedent for first ladies to use their influence in
“causes of humanitarian need.” Proceeds from the sale of her
artwork went to establish a scholarship for needy boys and girls to
attend the Martha Berry School in Rome, Georgia.
A couple of paintings are of particular interest because they
show the garden at Prospect House on the Prince-ton University
campus looking quite different from the way it is today. Woodrow
Wilson was President of Princeton Universi-ty from 1902 to 1910 and
so he and Ellen lived in Prospect House, the home of the
Presi-dents of the University at that time. Do visit the gardens of
Prospect House, which are small and formal and full of seasonal
interest, and located close to the Princeton Universi-ty Art
Museum.
Updike Farmstead is open every Wednesday and Saturday from 12
p.m. to 4 p.m. Put Up-dike Farm Princeton into Google and the
website will come up.
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A Step into History
Historic photographs at Updike Farmstead
A view from the porch of Updike Farmstead
Follow Einstein’s Example—Seek Ice Cream Linda Cooper writes:
When Einstein first arrived in Princeton, he bought an ice cream
cone from the Baltimore ice cream parlor on Nassau Street. Although
the Baltimore is no longer in business, clos-ing in 1963 after
serving ice cream for forty years, anyone seeking the creamy treat
today has many choices with six ice cream or yogurt shops within a
half-mile of each other. Thomas Sweet (172 Nassau) is the oldest,
founded in 1979, with the newest being Uncle Louie (124 Nassau),
which opened last summer. Halo Pub (9 Hulfish) offers gourmet ice
cream that is made locally at their Halo Farm in nearby
Lawrenceville, while the Bent Spoon (35 Palmer Square), offers
unique ice cream and sorbet flavors. Two yogurt shops are also
op-tions: Fruity Yogurt (166 Nassau) and Twist Yogurt (84
Nassau).
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Kelly Devine Thomas writes: The High Line is an amazing
public
park built on a historic freight rail line elevated above
Manhattan’s West Side. It combines art, architecture, landscape,
and design in an outdoor urban environment and makes for an easy
and invigorating day trip.
Take the train (www.njtransit.com) into New York’s Penn Station
and exit the station onto 8th Avenue. From there, walk south to
30th Street and then head west to 10th Avenue. You’ll see a flight
of stairs along with an elevator to the park platform. From the
30th Street entrance, you can walk the length of the park to
Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District. The city sights
(river views, roof tops, and water towers, among them) and people
watching will like-ly distract and entertain you along the length
of the walk—roughly eighteen blocks. You will see a number of
interesting public art installations, from a bird habitat designed
by artist Sarah Sze to a stained-
glass homage to the Hudson River by Spencer Finch. If you are
interested in contemporary art, you may choose to exit at 26th
Street and visit the art galleries of Chelsea
(www.chelseagallerymap.com), then reenter the park at 23rd Street.
The website www.thehighline.org is a great resource for information
about the park, the history of the project, the neighborhood, and
events, includ-ing talks and tours.
If you do walk the length of the High Line to Gansevoort Street,
you might decide to have a drink or a bite to eat at the Standard
Hotel, located at 13th Street and Washington Street, just north of
the High Line exit, which offers a biergarten and restaurant
(www.standardhotels.com/new-york-city/bars). If you are planning to
dine
in the Standard Grill, reservations are strongly recommended.
There are a number of restaurants, galleries, and clothing
bou-tiques in the area (www.meatpacking-district.com). Between 15th
and 16th Streets and 9th and 10th Avenues, you’ll find Chel-sea
Market (www.chelseamarket.com), an indoor culinary concourse with a
variety of high-quality offerings designed to please any
foodie—it’s also the location where the Food Network films its
shows “Iron Chef America” and “Emeril Live.” From Chelsea Market,
you have a few options for getting back to Penn Station: you can
walk (about fifteen blocks altogether to 31st Street and Eight
Avenue); head to the subway station at 23rd Street and 8th Avenue
where you can take the A train to 34th Street-Penn Station
(www.mta.info); or hail yourself a well-earned taxi.
New York’s High Line
New Jersey Audubon Society’s Plainsboro Preserve
Elevated walking spaces
Linda Cooper writes: Tucked away, and within about a
twenty-minute drive from IAS, is the New
Jersey Audubon Society’s Plainsboro Preserve, which includes
1,000 acres of open space and an Environmental Education Center
(www.njaudubon.org).
Children are invited to explore the indoor tree house or play in
the under-the-pond room. There are five miles of trails with plenty
of geocaches (www.geocaching.com) for the finding, all surrounding
the fifty-acre McCormack Lake. The preserve hosts many activities,
which can be found on their calendar of events. Spring activities
include the Full Moon Hike on April 6 or the Spring Egg Hunt on
April 7. Also during the month, there is a geocaching scavenger
hunt, the perfect activity for anyone interesting in learning about
the world of geocaching. On April 21, bird enthusiasts may want to
join the director of the sanctuary in searching for early spring
migrants. The park is open every day but Monday. Please note that
no pets are allowed on the grounds of the preserve. Inviting
homes
Bird habitat or art?
Chelsea Market
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More information about the AMIAS activities listed in this
calendar may be found at www.ias.edu/about/amias/activities.
Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fr i Sa t
1 2 English Conversa-tion, 10:00 a.m., OL Tennis Lessons, 6:00
p.m., TC
3 Pottery and Clay Modeling Exhibit, 11:30 a.m., HB Art Lecture
Series, 5:00 p.m., WH
4 Tennis Lessons, 6:00 p.m., TC Dinner, SH
5
6 No Yoga Dinner, SH
7
8 9 English Conversa-tion, 10:00 a.m., OL Tennis Lessons, 6:00
p.m., TC
10 11 Tennis Lessons, 6:00 p.m., TC Buffet Dinner, SH
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13 Hatha Yoga, 12:00 p.m., DR Dinner, SH
14 PSO Concert: Bravo Family, 9:30 a.m.
15 16 English Conversa-tion, 10:00 a.m., OL Tennis Lessons, 6:00
p.m., TC
17 Art Lecture Series, 5:00 p.m. WH
18 Tennis Lessons, 6:00 p.m., TC Dinner, SH
19
20 Hatha Yoga, 12:00 p.m., DR Dinner, SH
21 AMIAS Trip
22 23 English Conversa-tion, 10:00 a.m., OL Tennis Lessons, 6:00
p.m., TC
24 25 Tennis Lessons, 6:00 p.m., TC Dinner, SH
26 Leon Levy Lecture, 5:30 p.m., DR
27 Hatha Yoga, 12:00 p.m., DR Dinner, SH
28
29 30 English Conversa-tion, 10:00 a.m., OL
Reservations are required for dinners, concerts, and trips.
Thank you!
Dates and times are current as of publication date.
AC: Activities Center; BH: Bloomberg Hall; CNS: Crossroads
Nursery School; CR: Common Room; DR: Dilworth Room; HB: Harry’s Bar
–upper level of Simons Hall; HC: Housing Complex; MH: Marquand
House; OL: 97 Olden Lane; SH: Si-mons Hall; TC: Tennis Courts; WH:
Wolfensohn Hall; WLH: West Building Lecture Hall; WLR: White-Levy
Room.
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