Princeton University

For other Princetons, see Princeton. Most of them are named after the University.

Significant places

Nassau Hall

Nassau Hall is the main administrative building of the University. For more information on this historic building, please see the main article, Nassau Hall.

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Cannon Green

Cannon Green is located on the south end of the main lawn. Buried in the ground at the center is a cannon, the top of which protrudes from the earth and is traditionally spray-painted in orange with the current senior class year. A second cannon is buried in the lawn in front of nearby Whig Hall. Both were buried in response to periodic thefts by nearby colleges.

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Cannon - Whig Hall - Nearby colleges

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The Academy Award winning movie, A Beautiful Mind, contains a scene on Cannon Green. John Nash plays Go with his college rival while sitting on stone benches in the middle of the green. (The benches do not exist; like many elements of the Princeton setting, they were introduced for the film.)

Related Topics:
Academy Award - A Beautiful Mind - John Nash - Go

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McCarter Theater

McCarter Theatre is recognized as one of this country's leading regional theaters. Under the Artistic Direction of Emily Mann, the Tony Award-winning McCarter Theatre has demonstrated a commitment to the highest professional standards. McCarter's vision is to create a theater of testimony, engaged in a dialogue with the world around it, paying tribute to the enduring power of the human spirit and scope of the imagination.

Related Topics:
Tony Award - Theater

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A hallmark of the Theater Series is the creation of new work. Since 1991, over 20 new plays and adaptations have had their World or American premieres at McCarter including: Emily Mann's Having Our Say, Athol Fugard's Valley Song, John Henry Redwood's The Old Settler, and Stephen Wadworth's adaptations of Marivaux. McCarter premieres have made a significant contribution to the American theater and have been produced in cities across the country. In the past, the famous shows of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific, Thornton Wilder's Our Town, and Joseph Kesserling's Arsenic and Old Lace made their world premieres at McCarter.

Related Topics:
1991 - Plays - American premieres - Emily Mann - Athol Fugard - John Henry Redwood - Stephen Wadworth - Rodgers - And Hammerstein - South Pacific - Thornton Wilder - Our Town - Joseph Kesserling - Arsenic and Old Lace

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As a world-class performing arts presenter, McCarter offers audiences diverse programs of music, dance, and special events featuring artists of national and international repute from a wide variety of disciplines and styles. Under the leadership of W. W. Lockwood, Jr. for 40 years, McCarter's programs rival any performing arts series in the country.

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McCarter Theater is also the unofficial home of the famous Princeton Triangle Club, a comedy theater troupe whose alumni include Academy Award-winning actor Jimmy Stewart.

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Princeton Triangle Club - Academy Award - Jimmy Stewart

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Princeton University Art Museum

The Princeton University Art Museum is one of the most outstanding university museums in the country. The collections have greatly exceeded those of a study collection. The founding principal of the museum was to give students direct, intimate, and sustained access to original works of art to complement and enrich the instruction and research at the University, and this continues to be its primary function. The museum also serves a much larger audience, however, as one of the richest cultural resources in the state of New Jersey and as an active participant in the international community of museums.

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Numbering nearly 60,000 objects, the collections range chronologically from ancient to contemporary art, and concentrate geographically on the Mediterranean regions, Western Europe, China, the United States, and Latin America. There is a collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including ceramics, marbles, bronzes, and Roman mosaics from Princeton University?s excavations in Antioch. Medieval Europe is represented by sculpture, metalwork, and stained glass. The collection of Western European paintings includes important examples from the early Renaissance through the nineteenth century, and there is a growing collection of twentieth-century and contemporary art.

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Mediterranean - Western Europe - China - United States - Latin America - Greek - Roman - Antiquities - Ceramics - Antioch - Medieval - Renaissance

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Among the strengths in the museum are the collections of Chinese art, with important holdings in bronzes, tomb figurines, painting, and calligraphy; and pre-Columbian art, with remarkable examples of the art of the Maya. The museum has distinguished collections of old master prints and drawings and a comprehensive collection of original photographs. African art is represented as well as Northwest Coast Indian art. Other outstanding works include those of the John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection of twentieth-century sculpture, including works by such modern masters as Alexander Calder, Jacques Lipshitz, Henry Moore, Claude Monet and Pablo Picasso.

Related Topics:
Calligraphy - Pre-Columbian - John B. Putnam, Jr. - Alexander Calder - Jacques Lipshitz - Henry Moore - Claude Monet - Pablo Picasso

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