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Whitney curator to showcase current exhibition
Debra Singer, co-curator of the 2004 Biennial Exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, will present an illustrated lecture on her work at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, in Room 219, 185 Nassau St.
Singer, Whitney's associate curator of contemporary art, worked with Chrissie Iles, curator of film and video, and Shamim Momin, branch director and curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, to assemble the exhibition. It explores a number of interwoven aesthetic tendencies in works by a group of intergenerational artists.
Pieces by 108 artists and collaborative groups are represented in the show, which opened March 11 and is on view in New York through May 30. The show also includes several site-specific outdoor works.
Singer's lecture is sponsored by the Program in Visual Arts.
Lucas Gallery
The untitled painting below by senior Tiffany Dunbar and "Big Bend, Texas," a photograph by senior Benjamin Handzo, are among the pieces that will be on display April 6-16 in the Lucas Gallery, 185 Nassau St. The work is part of their senior thesis shows in the Program in Visual Arts. An opening reception will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 6. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Education expert here to discuss 'common sense' school reform
A lecture on "Common Sense School Reform" is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 6, in 16 Robertson Hall.
Speaking will be Frederick Hess, resident scholar and director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and executive editor of the journal Education Next. He is known for his work on a diverse range of educational issues, including urban education, accountability, charter schooling and school vouchers, educational politics, teacher and administrative licensure, local governance, competition and school improvement.
In his latest book, "Common Sense School Reform" (Palgrave, 2004), Hess criticizes the conventional "status quo" reform efforts and strategies that rest on solutions such as class size reduction, small schools and enhanced professional development. He maintains that real improvement requires common sense reforms that create a culture of competence by rewarding excellence, punishing failure and giving educators the freedom and flexibility to do their work.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Education Research Section and the Program in Ethics and Public Affairs.
Hijuelos to read from his work
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Oscar Hijuelos will read from his work at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in the Stewart Film Theater, 185 Nassau St.
The son of Cuban immigrants, Hijuelos was the first Hispanic American novelist to receive a Pulitzer when he won in 1990 for "The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love." The book tells the story of two brothers who move from Havana to New York in the early 1950s, form a mambo orchestra and enjoy fleeting fame following an appearance with Desi Arnaz on the "I Love Lucy" show. Two years later, the book was made into a movie, "The Mambo Kings," starring Armand Assante and Antonio Banderas.
Hijuelos also is the author of three other novels and several award-winning short stories.
The reading is part of the Creative Writing Program's Althea Ward Clark Reading Series and of a month-long Latin American culture celebration, "The Search for Xochipili," featuring a variety of music, the visual arts and the spoken word. The project is sponsored by Princeton University Concerts in conjunction with the University Art Museum, the Program in Latin American Studies, the Program in Creative Writing and the Friends of Music at Princeton.
Urban public charter school founder to speak
Rajiv Vinnakota, co-founder and managing director of the SEED Foundation, will present a lecture titled "From Equal to Equitable: Leveling the Playing Field for Education for the Poor" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in 16 Robertson Hall.
A 1993 Princeton graduate, Vinnakota co-founded the country's first urban public charter boarding school in 1998. SEED (Schools for Educational Evolution and Development) is designed to serve the most disadvantaged urban students in the Washington, D.C., area. It began with 40 seventh-graders, and now enrolls 305 students in grades seven through twelve.
Vinnakota has received the Princeton Club of Washington's Community Service Award and the Oprah Winfrey Show's Use Your Life Award, among other honors. He was named to Princeton's board of trustees last year.
Vinnakota's visit is part of the Practitioner-in-Residence Program sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. The program brings public policy leaders to campus for up to a week to meet with students (see story in this issue).
Public interest lawyering is talk topic
Ken Zimmerman, founding executive director of the Newark-based New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, will speak at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8, in 16 Robertson Hall. He will discuss "The Law and Progressive Social Change: Rethinking Public Interest Lawyering."
The New Jersey Institute for Social Justice, established in 1999, is an urban advocacy and research organization involved in challenging barriers that prevent the state's urban areas and residents from achieving their potential. Under Zimmerman's direction, the institute has focused upon four areas: economic oppor-tunity; regional equity; fiscal accountability; and equal justice. Issues undertaken by the institute include revamping state policies and programs on prisoner re-entry and combating predatory lending practices.
The lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
University Art Museum
The Princeton University Art Museum is giving the public a rare opportunity to view a selection of Charlotte Perriand's mid-century furniture designs in an exhibition through July 11.
"Useful Forms: Furniture by Charlotte Perriand" focuses on the work of the French modernist designer who lived from 1903 to 1999. Although the subject of major exhibi-tions in both France and England, her work has received virtually no exposure in American museums and remains underrepresented in American museum collections.
The Princeton exhibition will be only the second in the United States to focus on her work, and the first to concentrate exclusively on Perriand's designs created during the two decades following her employment in the studio of the architect Le Corbusier. Pictured here are a wood freeform desk from 1960 (above left) and a wood and brushed aluminum sideboard from 1946.
A lecture, "Charlotte Perriand's 'Art de Vivre,'" by Mary McLeod, professor of architecture at Columbia University and Princeton graduate alumna, is set for 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 8, in 106 McCormick.
For more information on the exhibition and other related events, visit the museum Web site at <www.princetonartmuseum.org>.
Symposium focuses on China's future
A symposium titled "Keeping the Dragon Aloft: Can a Rising China Overcome Internal and External Challenges in the 21st Century?" is scheduled for Friday, April 9.
It will feature a panel discussion by Princeton faculty members at 2 p.m. in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, and a keynote address by Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations Wang Guangya at 7 p.m. in 101 Friend Center.
The event is intended to provide a look at contemporary China, and the challenges this nation faces in the midst of its often discussed but rarely explained rise on the international scene. Panelists during the afternoon will include Gregory Chow, Gil Rozman, Eric Thun and Lynn White.
The symposium will be presented by the Princeton Institute for Inter-national and Regional Studies undergraduate fellows and sponsored by the institute and the Global Issues Forum.
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