Mon, Feb 12, 2007
February 12, 2007
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY, THROUGH APRIL 29
Sheldon Exhibit to Focus on Relationship Between Comic, High Art
Drawn from the permanent collection and loans from collectors, "Comic Art," a new exhibition at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, plots the relationship between comic and high art.
Chris Ware, one of the leading comic artists in the United States today, has written an essay for the gallery guide to the exhibition. In it, he shares his views on the place that comic art occupies in American culture and in the high art world today. The exhibition, on view from Feb. 6 through April 29, will include works from Enrique Chagoya, Jon E. Gierlich and S. Clay Wilson, Howard Finster, Red Grooms, Philip Guston, George Herriman, Roger Shimomura, Saul Steinberg, Art Spiegelman and Walt Kelly, among many others. more...
SHELDON MEMORIAL ART GALLERY
NEBRASKA EAST UNION, 4PM
Entomology Seminar - "Eradication and management efforts for the Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis (Motschulsky)"
Julia Colby, Graduate Student, Entomology Department
LIED CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS, 2:30PM
Enron Whistleblower to Speak at Lied Center
Lynn Brewer, former Enron executive and author of "Confession of an Enron Executive: A Whistleblower's Story," will speak Feb. 12 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Brewer's talk is part of B-Week activities planned by students in the UNL College of Business Administration and will begin at 2:30 p.m. in the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St. It is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the college's Program in Business, Ethics and Society and Student Advisory Board.
During her nearly three years at Enron, Brewer was responsible for risk management in energy operations, the e-commerce initiatives for Enron's water subsidiary, competitive intelligence for Enron Broadband Services, and traded power in California markets. She will discuss her personal insight into the scandals that spanned her career at Enron, talk about her decision to blow the whistle, and discuss her fateful meeting with convicted CEO Ken Lay -- two weeks before his death. Brewer will provide a roadmap from Enron to the current risk landscape, showing listeners how likely they are to work for a company like Enron.
B-WEEK
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Last King of Scotland, Volver Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Last King of Scotland and Volver. Both films will show through February 15.
In The Last King of Scotland, a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.
Volver is not a surreal comedy, though it might seem so at times. The living and the dead live together without problems, but provoking hilarious situations and others full of deep and genuine emotion. It is a movie about the culture of death in my native region, La Mancha. My folks there live it in astonishing simplicity. The way in which the dead are still present in their lifes, the richness and humanity of their rites makes it possible for the dead to never really die. Volver shatters all cliches of a dark Spain and shows a Spain that is as real as it is opposed. A white Spain, spontaneous, fun, fearless, fair and with solidarity.
More information is available at the Ross website.
