Wed, Jul 02, 2008
June 30 - July 4, 2008
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
'Peace, Love and Psychedelic Sixties' Continues at Sheldon
"Peace, Love, and the Psychedelic Sixties," an exhibition drawn from artworks in the Sheldon Museum of Art collection that were created in the 1960s, continues through August 3rd.
The exhibition includes three elements, the largest offering artworks that express the mythologized vision of the 1960s still alive in the popular imagination. These works are colorful, dream-like and even psychedelic. They give the sense of experimentation, vigor and youthful energy associated with the era. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
Nancy Crow Exhibition Continues at International Quilt Study Center & Museum
Nancy Crow's "Cloth, Culture, Context" exhibition continues at the International Quilt Study Center and Museum through August 31. The show is a contemporary complement to "Quilts in Common," tracing quilting luminary Crow's evolution as studio quilter. The quilts of this exhibit represent the extensive scope of Nancy Crow's role as a member of the American studio quilt vanguard.
Admission to the International Quilt Study Center & Museum is free for UNL Students, Faculty & Staff. $5 for adults and $3 for children (under the age of 4 are free). Museum hours on Friday and Saturday are 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Sunday hours are 1 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
INTERNATIONAL QUILT STUDY CENTER & MUSEUM
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Battle For Haditha and My Brother Is An Only Child Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Battle For Haditha and My Brother Is An Only Child. Both films will show one week only through July 3.
Documentary filmmaker Nick Broomfield (Aileen Wurnos: The Selling of a Serial Killer, and Kurt And Courtney) turns his attention to the war in Iraq in this fiction film. Using a real-life military massacre in Haditha as his starting point, Broomfield tells the stories of young American soldiers and Iraqis that is sympathetic to both perspectives in the conflict. A shoot-and-run style and a cast of nonprofessional actors--made up of ex-soldiers and Iraqi civilians--add authenticity to this chaotic drama.
Set in a small Italian town in the 60’s and 70’s, My Brother Is An Only Child tells the story of two brothers who want to change the world – but in completely different ways. The elder, Manrico (Riccardo Scarmaccio), is a handsome, charismatic firebrand who becomes the prime mover in the local Communist party. Accio, (Elio Germano) the younger, more rebellious brother, finds his own contrarian voice by joining the reactionary Fascists. What starts as a typical tale of sibling rivalry becomes the story of the polarizing and paralyzing politics of those turbulent times. The rift between the brothers is further intensified when Accio realizes that he loves his brother's girlfriend, Francesca (Diane Fleri) who, like everyone else, is blind to Manrico's increasingly dangerous ideas. An intensely cinematic and incredibly incisive film about the dreams and disillusionments of the 60's and 70's, My Brother Is An Only Child is set in the exact era of the groundbreaking early classics of Bernardo Bertolucci and Marco Bellochio.
More information is available at the Ross website.
