Tue, Jan 16, 2007
January 16, 2007
RUNS THROUGH MARCH 31
Ceramics from China, Japan, Korea' Opens at Lentz Center
"Ceramics from China, Japan and Korea" will be the 2007 spring show at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Lentz Center for Asian Culture.
The show, which will run Jan. 12 through March 31, will include the Lentz Center's extensive collections of Chinese and Japanese ceramics, and also feature Korean ceramics dating from the 14th through the 19th centuries that are on loan from the University of Nebraska State Museum.more...
LENTZ CENTER
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 12:30PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Week Event - Brown Bag Lecture - "Immigration and Labor Issues"
Gene Crump, Associate General Counsel, and Peter Levitov, Special Assistant General Counsel
NEBRASKA UNION, 6PM
Martin Luther King Jr. Week Event - Movie Night - "Sarafina"
moderator Dr. Dawne Curry, UNL
SHELDON ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 1
'Architect's Brother' Exhibit Opens at Sheldon Art Gallery
Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's "The Architect's Brother" opens Jan. 16 at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The exhibition features 42 large-scale, mixed-media images creating a mythical world that mirrors ours, where nature is domesticated and controlled. The show will be on view through April 1.
The exhibition considers the state, and possible fate, of the Earth. The ParkeHarrisons came of age in a United States newly altered by environmental awareness, which encouraged personal and cultural commentary by artists. They conjure a destiny in which humankind's overuse of the land has led to environments spent and abandoned with the exception of one indefatigable spirit, portrayed by Robert ParkeHarrison. The protagonist takes up ironic and often futile tasks of preservation or renewal amid landscapes spent and abandoned either because of war or industrial intrusion.more...
SHELDON ART GALLERY
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Sweet Land, Shut Up And Sing Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Sweet Land and Shut Up And Sing. Both films will be showing through Thurs, January 18.
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2005 Hamptons International Film Festival, Sweet Land is a poignant and lyrical celebration of land, love, and the American immigrant experience. Based on Will Weaver's short story A Gravestone Made of Wheat and shot on location in Southern Minnesota, Sweet Land is that rare independent feature that uses painterly images and understated performances to tell a universal story of love and discovery. David Tumblet's glorious magic-hour cinematography recalls classic American art cinema like Days of Heaven, transforming the amber majesty of Southern Minnesota's farm country into an elegiac metaphor for memory, family, and history.
While performing in 2003, singer Natalie Maines ignited a maelstrom of controversy and red-state rage when she declared--from a London stage on the eve of the Iraqi conflict--that she was ashamed President George W. Bush was from her home state of Texas. When a rabidly right-wing group picked up on it, the band found themselves in the center of controversy regarding the nature of patriotism, freedom of speech, feminism, and the split between pro- and antiwar Americans. In Shut Up And Sing, Filmmaker Barbara Kopple brings us the fly-on-the-wall view of the next three years: we find Haines and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire in dressing rooms, on stage, and in recording studios, bonding with each other, their families, producer Rick Rubin, and their supportive manager Simon Renshaw. Through the crises, they keep their sense of humor and sisterhood, not backing down from their liberal stance, and turning the backlash into a triumph. They also make some great music, and the film includes plenty of riveting, intense footage of the band in performance onstage and in the studio. Among the faces appearing in archival footage are President Bush, Bill Maher, and rabidly right-wing country star Toby Keith.
More information is available at the Ross website.
