Mon, May 12, 2008
May 12-16, 2008
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
Sheldon Statewide Exhibit, 'Particles to Planets,' Contines
The Sheldon Museum of Art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln will present "From Particles to Planets, Exploring the Physical in Art" -- its annual statewide touring exhibition -- in Lincoln through Aug. 17.
In exploring and representing the physical world, artists are both constrained and freed by their media. Artists manipulate subjects by controlling light, color, texture, depth, form and space, to produce evocative images. Their artworks often are statements about their imaginations and viewpoints as much as they are representations of physical reality. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
E103 BEADLE CENTER, TUE 4PM
Biochemistry Graduate Student Ackerson Seminar - "Dimerization as a Way of Altering the Activity of a Protein: When Two Heads are Better Than One"
Dr. Gregory Petsko, Gyula and Katica Tauber Professor of Biochemistry and Chemistry, Brandeis University. Reception at 3:30 p.m.
901 HARDIN HALL, WED 1PM
M.S. Defense Seminar - "Predation as a Mechanism for Control of White Perch: An Investigation of Food Habits in Two Nebraska Reservoirs"
Nate Gosch, Defense Seminar, Advisor: Dr. Kevin Pope.
Campus Rec Creates Campus Walking Maps
Campus Recreation has created maps of walking routes on City and East campus. They are available for download along with a list of walking information tips. Routes selected minimize crossing streets and highlight the use of common, accessible areas of campus.
Campus Rec created the maps to raise awareness about wellness resources at UNL. The maps are part of the campus-wide wellness initiative. Faculty, staff and students are welcome to submit additional route ideas to Teressa Grosserode at tgrosserode2@unl.edu.
CAMPUS RECREATION
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Still Life and The Violin Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Still Life and The Violin. Both films will show through May 15.
A modern master of postmodern discontent, Jia Zhang-ke is among the most strikingly gifted filmmakers working today whom you have probably never heard of. During the past decade he has made some half-dozen documentary-inflected fictions and several documentaries that weigh the human cost of China's often brutal, dehumanizing shift from state-controlled communism to state-sanctioned capitalism, a price paid in the blood and sweat of people who have, paradoxically, inspired him to create works of sublime, soulful art. Still Life finds him working around the area of the new Three Gorges Dam (the largest in the world) in central China. Around this massive structure, he paints an interesting picture of human behaviour, touched with great cultural and political strife because of both environmental and humanitarian concerns.
In the Mexican film The Violin, Don Plutarco, his son Genaro and his grandson Lucio live a double life: on one hand they are musicians and humble farmers, on the other they support the campesina peasant guerilla movement's armed efforts against the oppressive government. When the military seizes the village, the rebels flee to the sierra hills, forced to leave behind their stock of ammunition. While the guerillas organize a counter-attack, old Plutarco executes his own plan. He plays up his appearance as a harmless violin player, in order to get into the village and recover the ammunition hidden his corn field. His violin playing charms the army captain, who orders Plutarco to come back daily. Arms and music play a tenuous game of cat-and-mouse which ultimately results in painful betrayal.
More information is available at the Ross website.
