Mon, Mar 26, 2007
March 26, 2007
RICHARDS HALL, ROOM 15, 5:30PM
Abeles and Boroson are Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Department of Art and Art History welcomes its final two Hixson-Lied Visiting Artists of the 2006-2007 academic year, Kim Abeles and Lee Boroson. Boroson will present a free public lecture today at 5:30 p.m. in the Richards Hall auditorium, Room 15. An open session with Boroson will be held on Tuesday, March 27 in the Richards Hall Sculpture Room (Room 24) at 2 p.m.
Boroson lives and works in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has created installations and shown his work in numerous solo exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in New York, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha, and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York, among others. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from Indiana University, and he received his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the State University of New York in New Paltz. Abeles presented a lecture and workshops last week.
NEBRASKA UNION AUDITORIUM, 7PM
Former Boeing CFO to give business ethics lecture
Mike Sears, former chief financial officer and executive vice president of Boeing, will share his story of how the pressures of doing business led him to break Boeing's ethics policy -- and what others can learn from his mistake.
Sears' lecture begins at 7 p.m. March 27 in the auditorium of the Nebraska Union, 1400 R St. The event is sponsored by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Engineering and is free and open to the public. more...
Justin Shaw - Self-Portrait
THROUGH APRIL 4
MFA Thesis Exhibition I Opens Today
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Department of Art and Art History Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition I opens March 26 and continues through April 4 at the Eisentrager-Howard Gallery in Richards Hall on the UNL city campus.
The exhibition includes MFA candidates Eric Anderson, Caitlin Applegate, Michael Burton, Jesse Ross and Justin Shaw. A reception will be held March 30 from 5-7 p.m. in the gallery. Special gallery hours for the MFA Thesis Exhibitions are Monday - Friday, noon to 4 p.m.
EISENTRAGER-HOWARD GALLERY
NEBRASKA UNION, 11:30AM
Author and UNL Professor Raz Speaks Today
Hilda Raz, UNL professor of English and editor of Prairie Schooner, and her son Aaron Raz Link, a writer, performing artist and science historian, will speak about their new book today at 11:30 a.m. at the Nebraska Union (room posted).
"What Becomes You" is an extraordinary mother/daughter/son memoir. Link, who began life as a girl, became a man at age 29. Turning from male to female and from teaching scientist to theater performer, Link documents the medical, social, legal and personal process involved in a complex identity change. Raz observes the process as both a parent and a professor who has studied gender issues.
The memoir explores the art and science of changing sex, maps uncharted family values, and journeys through a world transformed by surgery, hormones, love and... clown school. Combining personal experience and critical analysis, the book is an unusual reflection on gender, sex and the art of living.
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Lives Of Others, Berliner Schule: A Retrospective of Contemporary German Cinema Show at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Lives Of Others and Berliner Schule: A Retrospective of Contemporary German Cinema. The Oscar-winning (for best foreign-language film) The Lives Of Others will play through March 29, while the Berliner Schule will have showings through April 5.
At once a political thriller and human drama, The Lives Of Others begins in East Berlin in 1984, five years before Glasnost and the fall of the Berlin Wall and ultimately takes us to 1991, in what is now the reunited Germany. The Lives Of Others traces the gradual disillusionment of Captain Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Muhe, best known for his lead roles in Michael Haneke's Funny Games and as Dr. Mengele in Costa-Gavras' Amen), a highly skilled officer who works for the Stasi, East Germany's all-powerful secret police. His mission is to spy on a celebrated writer and actress couple, Georg Dreyman (Sebastian Koch) and Christa-Maria Sieland (Martina Gedeck).
From March 23 - April 5, the Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center is presenting a major Retrospective of Contemporary German Cinema, titled "Berliner Schule," curated by University of Nebraska-Lincoln Professor Marco Abel. The event will encompass 12 films and host two filmmakers: Christoph Hochhausler, the director of Milchwald (2003) and Falscher Bekenner (2005) will be present on March 30 through April 3; and Benjamin Heisenberg, the director of Schlafer (2005) and co-screenwriter of Milchwald will be visiting from March 23 through March 27.
More information is available at the Ross website.
