Fri, May 30, 2008
May 30 - June 1, 2008
Biodiversity, Blow Flies, Drought Featured in Great Plains Research
Was the first biodiversity inventory completed by the Stephen Long Expedition of 1819-1820 at winter quarters on the Missouri River? Two University of Nebraska-Lincoln faculty members say that is the case and present their theory in the spring issue of Great Plains Research.
Great Plains Research is edited by Robert F. Diffendal Jr. and published by the Center for Great Plains Studies. The journal is available on their website or can be purchased in the gift shop at the Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
'Poets on Painters' Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Museum of Art
A visual and literary exhibition that pairs 20 contemporary poets with 20 contemporary paintings, "Poets on Painters," continues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art. Each poet's response to a painting will be displayed alongside the artwork.
A sampling of today's written and visual arts, "Poets on Painters" focuses on the intrinsic and fascinating connections between two of the oldest art forms as seen by some of their newest practitioners. The exhibition recalls 20th-century collaborations between Apollinaire and Duchamp, Stein and Picasso, and O'Hara and Rivers in its playful examination of how poetry and painting converge and diverge in the 21st century. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Paranoid Park and Then She Found Me Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Paranoid Park and Then She Found Me. Both films will show through June 5.
In Paranoid Park, an unsolved murder at Portland's infamous park of the title's namesake brings detectives to a local high school, propelling a young skater into a moral odyssey where he must not only deal with the pain and disconnect of adolescence but the consequences of his own actions. As director of My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting, To Die For and elephant, Gus Van Sant has created some of the most memorable films about youth ever committed to film.
Adapted from Elinor Lipman's novel of the same name, Helen Hunt makes her feature directing debut with Then She Found Me, a touching story of schoolteacher April Epner (Hunt) and her very unlikely path towards personal fulfillment. Following the separation from her husband (Matthew Broderick) and the death of her adopted mother, April is contacted by her apparent birth mother (Bette Midler), who turns out to be a local talk show host Bernice Graves. As Bernice tries to become the mother to April that she was never able to be, April seems to find solace in the arms of the parent of one of her students (Colin Firth), only to find that the mystery to life’s questions cannot be solved by a simple revelation.
More information is available at the Ross website.
