Mon, Mar 31, 2008
March 31, 2008
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
'Unknown Blakelock' Offers Comprehensive View of Artist's Work
Presenting more than 40 paintings on view together for the first time, "The Unknown Blakelock" offers a grand vision of the work of Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919) beginning Jan. 25 at Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery. Sheldon has organized the exhibition with works from its collections and loans from 34 museums and collectors throughout the country. In October, the exhibition will be on view at the National Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts in New York City.
Known as a 19th-century tonalist painter, Blakelock has been historically associated with two dominant themes -- moonlight scenes and Indian encampments. Critics have largely overlooked the painter's broader accomplishments, which have been obscured by his tragic mental illness and numerous forgeries produced in his style. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
'The Art of Shibori: Untied Treasures' at Hillestad Gallery
The Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "The Art of Shibori: Untied Treasures," a solo show that features the work of Carter Smith of Massachusetts, continuing through April 11.
Shibori is a Japanese term for several methods of dyeing cloth with a pattern by binding, stitching, folding, twisting or compressing it. Some of these methods are known in the West as tie-dye. more...
ROBERT HILLESTAD TEXTILES GALLERY
901 HARDIN HALL CONFERENCE ROOM, 3PM
Applied Sciences Group Graduate Seminar Series - "Precipitation Recycling"
Kari Skaggs, Advisor, Dr. Qi Hu
BRACE LAB 211, 4PM
Physics & Astronomy Colloquium - "Digging up Top and Higgs at the Tevatron"
Dr. Kevin Lannon of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Colloquium abstract. Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in Brace Lab 202
ROOM 145 VETERINARY BASIC SCIENCES BUILDING, 4PM
Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences Seminar - "Single amino acid change in central domain of Vesicular stomatitis virus nucleocapsid protein abrogates its replication function"
Debasis Nayak, PhD Candidate, Department of Veterinary & Biomedical Sciences, UNL. Host: Dr. Fernando Osorio
EAST CAMPUS UNION, 4PM
Entomology Lecture - "Effects of Insect Pollinators and Herbivores on Sunflower Fitness"
Kentaro Miwa, Graduate Student, Department of Entomology
ROOM 14 RICHARDS HALL, 5PM
Mathematics Colloquium - "An Introduction to Noncummutative Algebraic Cryptography"
Visiting Artist Dan Collins
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
The Band's Visit and City of Men Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents The Band's Visit and City Of Men. Both films will show through April 10.
Israeli filmmaker Eran Kolirin's debut feature, The Band's Visit, is a subtle, heartfelt, and humane work that goes a long way toward dissolving the incredibly complex cultural divide that continues to plague the Middle East. Kolirin perfectly navigates his film's slice-of-life tone, blending comedy and drama and poignancy without ever succumbing to one completely. In the wrong hands, this material could turn into a quirk-fest that parodies everyday life. Yet under Kolirin's assured command, it becomes something that feels like life itself.The Band's Visit is funny, lonely, inspiring, sad, and beautiful all at once.
In City Of Men, producer Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardner) returns to the Brazilian favelas of his Academy Award-nominated film, City of God. Growing up in a culture dictated by violence and run by street gangs, teenagers Acerola (Douglas Silva) and Laranjinha (Darlan Cunha) have become close as brothers. With their eighteenth birthdays fast approaching, Laranjinha sets out to find the father he never met, while Acerola struggles to raise his own young son. But when they suddenly find themselves on opposite sides of a gang war, the lifelong friends are forced to confront a shocking secret from their shared past.
More information is available at the Ross website.
