The Daily Princetonian
Thursday April 2, 2015
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Princeton Art Museum:
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF TED CRUZ
THE CITY LOST AND FOUND
MAYA WESBY Staff Writer
VICTORIA SCOTT
7:00 a.m. – Wakes up, rolls out of bed and then prays in front of his at-home memorial for Jesus and Ronald Reagan. He does not stop praying until he hears Papa Reagan’s voice reassuring him that running for President was the right thing to do. 7:50 a.m. – Eats breakfast. Chick-fil-A® biscuits with honey. 8:22 a.m. – Puts on a big-boy suit and runs his fingers through his hair. Practices making that face that looks like he’s constantly about to cry. His high school drama coach once told him that his upside-down smile was, quote, “on point.” He is now ready to seize the day. 8:45 a.m. – Attends a meeting to outline his campaign trail map. Plans for stops in Iowa (obviously), New Hampshire (obviously-er) and Disney World (obviously-est). Pretty women who sing and do chores all day. Perfect. 10:05 a.m. – Potty break. 10:50 a.m. – Visits a natural history museum and gives a speech on the importance of education. “I went to Princeton, so I know things.” 11:30 a.m. – Tours the museum with a group of children. Makes sure the cameras catch him expressing his relatability. Successfully hides blatant confusion about the exhibit on evolution. 1:00 p.m. – Has lunch at a nearby small-business deli. Downs a sandwich that reminds him of his drunken nights at Hoagie Haven, a world-famous small-business deli. 1:06 p.m. – Hopes that no one else remembers those drunken nights at Hoagie Haven. 1:45 p.m. – Gets on his pimped-out tour bus to go to another press event. 1:50 p.m. – Has an on-bus meeting about possible VP options, just in case he makes it that far. Thinks about a title-winning chicken fight between Sarah Palin and Chris Christie for the whole ride, but doesn’t say anything. Sarah in a swim suit. Chris in a swim suit. Mm. 3:15 p.m. – Drives past one of those “Ready for Hillary” posters on someone’s window. Struggles to hold back tears, but one rolls down his cheek in silent defeat. 3:30 p.m. – Arrives at a construction site and gives a speech on the importance of the hardworking American. 3:37 p.m. – Makes something up about how Obama has taken away their jobs. 3:40 p.m. – Makes something up about how Obama has taken away their health care. 3:43 p.m. – Makes something up about how Obama has taken away all of their rights in general. 3:44 p.m. – Especially guns. 3:45 p.m. – And warm weather. 3:50 p.m. – Gets back on the pimped-out tour bus and goes to a nearby big-corporate hotel. 4:15 p.m. – Has a meeting in a conference room about which demographics to target during the campaign. Makes a short list of demographics and immediately crosses off immigrants, the young and the highly educated.
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rban renewal tr ansformed American cities in the 1960s and 1970s, and many prominent photographers documented those changes. The University Art Museum’s special exhibition, “The City Lost and Found: Capturing New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, 1960–1980,” explores the cinematic responses and photographic art that characterized urban renewal and popular media in New York City, Chicago and Los Angeles during this tumultuous time. The exhibition is a collaboration between University Art Museum and the Art Institute of Chicago and opened in Princeton on Feb. 21 after being featured at the Art Institute of Chicago. According to the University Art Museum website, this exhibition is the first project to capture an important shift in history through “photographic, cinematic and planning practices” based on evidence from the vibrant “streets, neighborhoods and seminal events in the country’s three largest cities.” In Chicago, the exhibition brought together many mediums of art, including slideshows, photo collages and
artist books from over 30 collections across the United States and holdings from the Art Institute itself, according to the Art Institute of Chicago webpage. At Princeton, the exhibition displays various works of art from the Princeton Library, the University Art Museum and other institutions. “Some of the objects in the exhibition are from here — either from the Art Museum or the Princeton Libraries. Our coorganizers, the Art Institute of Chicago, also loaned a very generous number of objects to the exhibit,” Katherine Bussard, the Peter C. Bunnell Curator of Photography at the Princeton Art Museum, said in an email statement. “Nearly 40 other institutions or individuals lent the majority of the objects, and this is one of the most exciting aspects of the exhibition.” The exhibition includes photographic works by Ed Ruscha, Garry Winogrand and newly rediscovered projects by Allan Kaprow and Shadrach Woods. The curating process for such an exhibition is long and arduous. Bussard worked for more than five years to plan this exhibition. “All exhibitions are different, but ‘The City Lost and
Found’ exhibition took more than five years to plan. The cocurators and I started with an idea, explored it and related objects, and did years of research to arrive at a final checklist,” Bussard said. “That process is what creates the experience on the walls of the museum right now as well as in the pages of the accompanying book.” The curating process in general involves much thought and planning. Bussard, who has curated more than 20 exhibitions since 1999, describes the meticulous process as something that always takes a long time. “The goal is to bring together those objects that — when in dialogue in the exhibition — make clear the purpose and argument of the exhibition,” Bussard said. “In the case of ‘The City Lost and Found’, for example, if we wanted to show the decisive impact of street photography on urban plans of the 1960s and 1970s, we needed to find copies of those plans, review them, learn who the contributing photographers were, and so on, all in order to determine what to display to make this point.” The exhibition will run for another three months and will close June 7.
4:19 p.m. – Circles the working class, evangelicals and the elderly. 4:20 p.m. – Interrupts meeting to hold a pencil like it’s a cigarette and pretends to smoke it in front of everyone. Giggles. 5:30 p.m. – Completes ironic enrollment for Obamacare. 6:00 p.m. – Naptime. 7:15 p.m. – Wakes up crying; had a nightmare about the complete dissolution of One Direction. 7:18 p.m. – Consoled by wife. 7:30 p.m. – Leaves hotel and drives in an All-New 2015 Ford-450 (“’Murica!”) to a restaurant to meet with prospective campaign donors. 7:50 p.m. – Orders macaroni & cheese off of a kid’s menu. 7:59 p.m. – Impresses the prospective donors with the pretty picture of his own swearing-in that he drew on the back. A crayoned Obama weeps in the background. 9:15 p.m. – Leaves the restaurant and takes the All-New 2015 Ford-450 (“’Murica!”) back to the hotel.
COURTESY OF PRINCETON ART MUSEUM
A capture of Los Angeles featured in the exhibit, taken in 1969 by photographer Garry Winograd.
9:35 p.m. – Potty break.
OPUS 21
10:00 p.m. – Takes a bath using a cotton candy bath bomb, stolen from his wife. 10:50 p.m. – Gets dressed in pajamas decorated with his favorite Adventure Time characters. 11:02 p.m. – Pledges allegiance to the Illuminati Canada (“Amurica!”), his true home. 11:15 p.m. – Before bedtime, prays that Jeb Bush and Rand Paul and that Asian kid he met on the museum tour all stay out of the race so he has a shot at victory. COURTESY OF THE HUFFINGTON POST
11:20 p.m. – Falls asleep to the soothing sound of Rush Limbaugh’s podcasts. Mm.
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t is difficult to imagine a place for yet another music ensemble among the many performing groups that already exist on campus. However, after hearing a preview of Opus 21’s upcoming concert, I’ve realized that there is not only a place for this ensemble in the Princeton arts community, but also a true need. Opus 21 is a classical chamber music group started by Edward Leung ’16 and Ashley Kim ’16, who are both pursuing certificates in instrumental performance. Leung and Kim are highly decorated musicians with ample experience in the pre-professional music world. Last spring, they combined forces to create a new ensemble intending to fill a void in their Princeton music careers. Leung explained that while there are many fantastic student performing groups at Princeton, before Opus 21, there was no existing ensemble that featured only the very best classical musicians on campus. Leung and Kim went through a rigorous recruitment and audition process to fill the Opus 21 roster. With the dual mission of revamping Princeton’s music department and providing Princeton musicians with conservatory-level performing opportunities, Opus 21 has an ambitious to-do list. Having heard three works, which will be featured on the program of Opus 21’s upcoming perfor-
mance this Saturday, April 4, I am convinced that the ensemble is working hard to accomplish its goals. On Sunday night, three talented cellists and one of Opus 21’s co-founders, pianist Leung, presented a cohesive performance of Popper’s “Requiem” for three cellos. The cellists melded their individual sounds, successfully matching their tones, vibrato styles and bow strokes on a minute level. Their passing of melodic lines back and forth was effortless, making it difficult to notice that a switch in players had even occurred. The fact that this piece took only two rehearsals to put together is hard to believe, and reflects well on the group’s professionalism and efficiency. As I was about to float away in a cloud during the final dreamlike moments of the Popper, I was a bit dismayed that not enough care was taken in conveying Popper’s final cadence, which came across as more of an afterthought. The performers seemed to have thrown in the towel at this point. Overall, however, Popper’s “Requiem” was a fantastic sample of the group’s talent, and I am confident that the energy of a live performance will alleviate the issues with the ending. Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht” for string sextet is always an absolute showstopper. Kim led the group on first violin with poise and musicality.
The entire group rose to her level, creating a dramatic, exciting performance that will most definitely transport you from hectic Princeton life to Schoenberg’s exquisite musical world. Each individual player in this sextet was highly polished, with especially virtuosic performances by Kim, Emma Powell ’17, Jay Kim ’18 and Nathan Wong ’18. Finally, a piano quartet played two movements of “Summer Night Music,” composed by graduate student Chris Rogerson. I enjoyed the beginning of the movement “Summer Nights,” which consisted of a bed of strings creating a texture that each musician could soar above with a solo, one by one, passing along the melody. Rogerson’s unison at the end of the movement was extremely powerful with the strings sustaining each note, using every possible centimeter of bow. While the group successfully conveyed the programmatic concepts of this gorgeous composition, the performance was a bit tired. The players were dispassionate, producing sloppy entrances and phrase endings that were not often together. With a week of rehearsal left after the generally superb runthrough that I heard on Sunday, Opus 21 is sure to come out with a bang in their first full-length concert this Saturday, April 4 at 7:30 p.m. in Taplin Auditorium in Fine Hall.