Tue, Aug 12, 2008
August 12-16, 2008
Mueller Planetarium Explores Black Holes in Astronomy Show
Imagine the most bizarre, magnificent places in the universe, and you'd probably imagine a black hole.
Thanks to a gift from the Friends of the University of Nebraska State Museum, museum visitors will be able to experience these strange and powerful gravitational wells lurking in outer space in a new "fulldome" show at Mueller Planetarium. more...
MUELLER PLANETARIUM
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
Leighton Pierce's 'Agency of Time' at Sheldon Museum of Art
Artist Leighton Pierce uses film, video and sound to create transformative experiences for museum visitors. His new installation, "Agency of Time," opens continues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Sheldon Museum of Art. The exhibition, on view through Oct. 19, is free and a gallery guide is available for visitors.
Pierce created this site-specific installation for the Sheldon and engages viewers by creating an emotionally evocative experience. "The video loops (presented on constructed 3-D objects) are painterly, marginally abstract, gestural evocations of common objects and activities," Pierce said. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Up The Yangtze and Savage Grace Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Up The Yangtze and Savage Grace. Both films will show for only one week only through August 14.
In China, it is simply known as "The River." But the Yangtze—and all of the life that surrounds it—is undergoing a truly astonishing transformation wrought by the largest hydroelectric project in history, the Three Gorges Dam. Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang returns to the gorgeous, now-disappearing landscape of his grandfather's youth to trace the surreal life of a "farewell cruise" that traverses the gargantuan waterway. Singularly moving and cinematically breathtaking, Up The Yangtze gives a human dimension to the wrenching changes facing not only an increasingly globalized China, but the world at large.
Savage Grace, based on the award winning book, tells the incredible true story of Barbara Daly, who married above her class to Brooks Baekeland, the dashing heir to the Bakelite plastics fortune. Beautiful, red-headed and charismatic, Barbara is still no match for her well-bred husband. The birth of the couple's only child, Tony, rocks the uneasy balance in this marriage of extremes. Tony is a failure in his father's eyes. As he matures and becomes increasingly close to his lonely mother, the seeds for a tragedy of spectacular decadence are sown. Spanning 1946 to 1972, the film unfolds in six acts. The Baekelands' pursuit of social distinction and the glittering 'good life' propels them across the globe. We follow their heady rise and tragic fall against the backdrop of New York, Paris, Cadaques, Mallorca and London.
More information is available at the Ross website.
