Mon, Nov 20, 2006
November 20, 2006
KRUGER GALLERY
Kruger Gallery Hosts Miniature Paintings by Joseph Yetto
The Kruger Gallery of miniature furnishings and decorative arts at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln continues an exhibition of smaller artworks by Joseph Yetto through Dec. 22. "Paintings in Little: The Small Works of Joseph Yetto" features recent works by the artist and includes a brief history of miniature painting and its application in 1-to-12 scale interiors.
Yetto, a native of Stillwater, N.Y., paints from life and works in a range of scales. "The idea of juxtaposing different scales can determine the size of the work," he said. "If I am observing something of small scale, I generally prefer to greatly increase its scale in my work. There is the feeling of experiencing new worlds and yet they are of our own world. The small-scale works tend to be interior spaces, still life, portraits or landscapes." more...
KRUGER COLLECTION
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
Cole's "Anxious Objects" Continues at Sheldon
With the exhibition "Anxious Objects: Willie Cole's Favorite Brands," New Jersey artist Willie Cole brings an interpretation of urban American culture and a revealing glimpse into his identity to the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery this fall. Growing up as an African-American in poverty, Cole collected castoff items from an affluent society on Newark streets -- hair dryers, irons, metal scraps, and shoes. In "Anxious Objects" thrown-away goods have become a medium and message in the artist's assemblages that make both social and artistic statements to viewers.
Organized by Patterson Sims, director of the Montclair Art Museum, where the exhibition was on view this summer, "Anxious Objects" continues through Dec. 17. This retrospective of Cole's work has received praise from East Coast reviewers. The New York Times wrote: "The 51-year-old Mr. Cole, it seems, is very much of the moment." And the Newark Sunday Star-Ledger said: "No one interested in contemporary art should miss it." more...
SHELDON ART MUSEUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus, Fast Food Nation Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Tales Of The Rat Fink, Shortbus, and Fast Food Nation. Tales Of The Rat Fink and Shortbus, will be showing through November 23, while Fast Food Nation will play through December 7.
From the award-winning director of Comic Book Confidential and Grass comes Tales Of The Rat Fink, Ron Mann's wildly inventive bio about Renaissance man Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, who engineered a shift in mid-twentieth century culture with his customized cars, "monster" T-shirts and America's alternative rodent - "Rat Fink." Hot Rodding grew from crude backyard engineering where performance was the bottom line into a refined art form where aesthetics were equally important. Mann's largely animated documentary features the voice talents of John Goodman, Ann-Margret, Jay Leno, Brian Wilson, Tom Wolfe, Matt Groening, Robert Williams, Stone Cold Steve Austin, Paul LeMat, Billy F Gibbons, and The Smothers Brothers.
John Cameron Mitchell's Shortbus explores the lives of several emotionally challenged characters as they navigate the comic and tragic intersections between love and sex in and around a modern-day underground salon. A sex therapist who has never had an orgasm, a dominatrix who is unable to connect, a gay couple who are deciding whether to open up their relationship, and the people who weave in and out of their lives, all converge on a weekly gathering called Shortbus: a mad nexus of art, music, politics and polysexual carnality. Set in a post-9/11, Bush-exhausted New York City, Shortbus tells its story with sexual frankness, suggesting new ways to reconcile questions of the mind, pleasures of the flesh and imperatives of the heart.
When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." The big screen version Fast Food Nation is a dramatic feature penned by Fast Food Nation author Eric Schlosser and Oscar® nominee Richard Linklater, who also serves as director. Explains Linklater: "The movie is not a documentary, but a character study of the lives behind the facts and figures. I'm more interested in fiction than non-fiction. You get to the point through human storytelling."
More information is available at the Ross website.
MRRMAC | TALES OF THE RAT FINK | SHORTBUS | FAST FOOD NATION
