Mon, Sep 01, 2008
September 1, 2008
ANDERSEN HALL
American President Exhibit Continues
The AP Breaking News exhibit titled "The American President" continues on display at Harold and Marian Andersen Hall. The traveling display is hosted by the College of Journalism and Mass Communications.
The Associated Press, the world's largest news organization, has prepared the exhibit of presidential images. The collection shows presidents at war, at ease, on the campaign stump, and traveling internationally, along with assassination images (JFK) and standout photos from the current race for the White House.
King Exhibit Continues at Sheldon Museum of Art
A mid-career survey, "The Sizes of Things in the Mind's Eye," continues at the Sheldon Museum of Art on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus, presents approximately 65 sculptures, film animations, installations, drawings and photographs by artist Elizabeth King.
King combines her meticulously wrought figurative sculptures with stop-frame film animation in installations that blur the boundary between actual and virtual space. Intimate in scale and distinguished by a level of craft that solicits close viewing, this work reflects her interests in early clockwork automata, the history of the mannequin and the puppet, and literature's host of legends in which the inanimate or artificial figure comes to life. more...
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Encounters At The End Of The World and The Animation Show Year Four. Both films will show through September 11.
Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man, Rescue Dawn) confirms his standing as poet laureate of men in extreme situations with Encounters At The End Of The World. In this visually stunning exploration, Herzog travels to the Antarctic community of McMurdo Station, headquarters of the National Science Foundation and home to eleven hundred people during the austral summer (Oct-Feb). Over the course of his journey, Herzog examines human nature and Mother nature, juxtaposing breathtaking locations with the profound, surreal, and sometimes absurd experiences of the marine biologists, physicists, plumbers, and truck drivers who choose to form a society as far away from society as one can get.
"The Animation Show," which has put together three previous feature-length collections, started in 2003 with Mike Judge of "Beavis and Butt-head" fame and Oscar-nominated animator Don Hertzfeldt curating, but this year finds Judge solely in control. After last year's somber program, or, as May called it, "a dozen shorts on death," Judge and the producers wanted the show to play lighter and faster. "This year we tried to focus more on comedy," Judge said. "This tour is like the midnight shows I loved to watch [at the International Tourneés of Animation] with a good mix of comedy and shorts that are visually amazing to look at on the big screen."
More information is available at the Ross website.
