September 1, 2005
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LENTZ CENTER FOR ASIAN CULTURE
Objects From The Permanent Collection On Display at Lentz Center
Now on display at the Lentz Center for Asian Culture are a variety of objects from the permanent collection. Among the exhibited items will be examples of contemporary Chinese painting, Korean costumes, Japanese ceramics and ivory carvings. The exhibition will also highlight the Lentz Center's new Chinese glass cabinets, the gift of Sandford and Ina Gadient
The Lentz Center for Asian Culture recognizes the rich and varied cultures of the many diverse peoples of Asia. As an entity within the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, its unique collection provides a singular opportunity for enhancing instructional programs on the campus, as well as enriching the cultural environment of the citizens of the state of Nebraska. It embodies the University's strong commitment to fostering multicultural understanding through an appreciation of Asian cultures.
LENTZ CENTER
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211 BRACE HALL, 4PM
Physics and Astronomy Colloquium - "The Coming Revolution in Particle Physics"
Dr. Chris Quigg, Fermilab
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HUSKER POWER
Athletic Department Had $114.3 Million Impact on Lincoln-Area Economy
Like clockwork every fall for more than 40 years, Cornhusker football fans have poured through the gates of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Memorial Stadium to cheer on their favorite team. The Huskers' NCAA record of 268 consecutive sellouts since 1962 is the envy of every other collegiate football program and a source of great pride among Nebraskans. But Nebraska football in particular and Cornhusker athletics in general offer more than just high-level athletic entertainment and a shared experience for those at the games -- they have a significant impact on the Nebraska economy, especially in the Lincoln metropolitan area.
A study completed this summer by UNL's Bureau of Business Research on behalf of the UNL Athletic Department showed that the overall economic impact of Cornhusker athletics on Lincoln's economy in the 2004-05 fiscal year was $114.3 million, including $41.2 million in worker income, 2,840 jobs (one-third of which are Athletic Department event or concession jobs) and $595,000 in direct sales tax revenue for the city of Lincoln. The football program alone had a total impact of $87.1 million, including $31.2 million in labor income, 2,130 jobs and $498,000 in direct sales tax revenue.
The study, headed by UNL economist Eric Thompson, director of the Bureau of Business Research, examined the economic impact of Husker athletics in two broad categories of expenditures -- annual expenditures of the overall Nebraska athletic program and expenditures of fans attending Husker home games in football, baseball, volleyball and men's basketball.
In his report on the study, Thompson noted that more than one million fans attend Nebraska home athletic contests every year, including more than one-half million who attend home football games, and said fan spending connected with these contests generates substantial expenditure at restaurants, hotels, retail stores and gasoline stations. more...
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SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH OCT 23
April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings at Sheldon
The exhibition "April Gornik: Paintings and Drawings" will be on display at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery Aug. 27 through Oct. 23. The exhibition includes nearly 40 monumental and small-scale paintings and drawings that act as a mid-career survey of April Gornik's work from 1980 to the present. Gornik is well known for her ability to bring forth the Western Romantic tradition in light-bathed landscapes inspired by memories of places visited, as well as by her imagination.
Dede Young, curator of modern and contemporary art for the Neuberger Museum of Art at State University of New York-Purchase, organized the exhibition, which was at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia before coming to the Sheldon. According to Young, the relevance of Gornik's work lies in the fact that she revels in her landscapes at a time when painting and drawing are considered outdated. "Since the mid-20th century art has expanded in uncountable ways, and painting and drawing have been rejected for nearly two decades as lacking in potential to fully express our contemporary world. April Gornik has chosen to maintain a steady process of exploring the vocabulary of painting and drawing as consistently viable and compelling. Rather than bow to the recent trend of artists to seek and make images from urban experiences in a world of mass production, Gornik stays a passionate course, utilizing landscape images and light to reference shared human experience."
With light as a primary subject, along with past, present, and future worlds imagined and portrayed with imposing clarity, Gornik puts forth images that are fresh, timeless and lasting. Her compelling relevance lies in the palpable, hand-made-ness of her work. She has said of painting, "It holds within itself the history, time, and tale of its formation, the person looking at it is informed, enriched, and subliminally able to experience all of the above. The object speaks to us in its physicality, a connection and an interface of time and space, intent and emotion."
Gornik will discuss her work in a public talk on "Landscape As Metaphor" at 5:30 p.m. Aug. 30 at the Sheldon's Ethel S. Abbott Auditorium, with a reception to follow. The talk is free and open to the public.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Continuing This Weekend at the Ross: Mad
Hot Ballroom, Mysterious Skin.
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center
presents the fan favorite documentary
Mad Hot Ballroom, and the newest film from director Gregg Araki, Mysterious Skin
Tango, foxtrot, swing, rumba, and meringue may seem to represent the last vestiges of a dying art to some, but director Marilyn Agrelo proves this is far from true in Mad Hot Ballroom. Agrelo reveals that the New York City public school system runs a ballroom dance program for fifth graders, in which these former preserves of the adult world are given a new lease on life by some enthusiastic little characters. The film follows students at three schools in the neighborhoods of Tribeca, Bensonhurst, and Washington Heights, with Agrelo training her cameras on the kids' lives both inside and outside of the classroom. The students are united by a zeal for the ballroom dancing lessons, which build over a 10-week period and culminate in a competition to find the school that has produced the best dancers in the city. One of 2005's most uplifting slices of cinema, Mad Hot Ballroom is a joyous, life-affirming experience.
"The summer I was eight years old, five hours disappeared from my life. Five hours, lost, gone without a trace..." These are the words of Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet), a troubled 18 year-old, growing up in the stiflingly small town of Hutchinson, Kansas. Plagued by nightmares, Brian believes that he may have been the victim of an alien abduction. Local Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) however, is the ultimate beautiful outsider. With a loving but promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue), Neil is wise beyond his years and curious about his developing sexuality, having found what he perceived to be love from his Little League baseball coach (played by Hal Hartley veteran Bill Sage) at a very early age. Now, ten years later, Neil is a teenage hustler, nonchalant about the dangerous path his life is taking. Neil's pursuit of love leads him to New York City, while Brian's voyage of self discovery leads him to Neil, who helps him to unlock the dark secrets of their past. Based on the acclaimed novel by Scott Heim, Mysterious Skin explores the hearts and minds of two very different boys who come to find the key to their future happiness lies in the exorcism of their collective demons.
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | MAD HOT BALLROOM | MYSTERIOUS SKIN |
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