Wed, Aug 13, 2008
August 11-15, 2008
Farrell's 'Hinterlands' Continues at Great Plains Art Museum
"Hinterlands," an exhibition of gelatin silver prints by Lincoln photographer Michael Farrell continues at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Great Plains Art Museum. The landscape series runs through Oct. 31 and includes photographs from Nebraska, Wyoming and Colorado, and focuses on remote locations that the artist has visited numerous times over the years.
The Great Plains Art Museum, 1155 Q St., Hewit Place, is open to the public 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:30-5 p.m. Sundays (closed Mondays, holiday weekends and between exhibitions). There is no admission charge. more...
GREAT PLAINS ART MUSEUM
LAWN NORTH OF KIMBALL RECITAL HALL, THU 9PM
'Movies on the Green' Series Closes With Bye Bye Birdie
The Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center and the University Program Council presents the final of six films in the annual Jensen's Cinema 16 Collection Movies on the Green 2008 series. The theme for this year's series is "Films of the 1960s."
This week's film is the energetic musical Bye Bye Birdie from 1963, starring Janet Leigh, Ann Margaret, and Dick Van Dyke. All screenings are presented on the lawn north of Kimball Recital Hall, 11th and R streets. Screenings are free and open to the public and begin at dusk (approximately 9 p.m.). more...
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.
