Thu, Sep 04, 2008
September 4, 2008
LIED CENTER, 11AM | LIVE STREAM
Perlman to Deliver Annual State of University Address
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman will deliver his annual State of the University address today. His speech begins at 11 a.m. at the Lied Center for Performing Arts, 301 N. 12th St.
Perlman will review the successes of the past year and describe the challenges and opportunities offered by the 2008-09 academic year. The address is free and open to the public and will be broadcast live on the UNL Web site, www.unl.edu; Lincoln Time Warner cable Channel 21, NebSat 105, KRNU Radio (90.3 FM) and Campus Channel 4. more...
OFFICE OF THE CHANCELLOR
Kendall's 'Purpose of Labor' Continues at Sheldon Museum of Art
Gail Kendall, Hixson-Lied professor of art at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, presents new ceramic artworks in "The Purpose of Labor," at UNL's Sheldon Museum of Art. Works in the exhibition respond to Robert Bly's translation of "The Kabir Book," ecstatic poems by the Islamic Sufi poet Kabir.
The large chargers in the exhibition represent a new direction in embellishment in Kendall's work. In a gallery guide to the exhibition, Robert Silberman, an associate professor of art history at the University of Minnesota, writes, "Just as Wayne Thiebaud uses paint to create delectable images of cakes and ice cream, Kendall can make glaze and clay look downright tasty, as in the serpentine ribbons of color that encircle her tureens and platters." 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.
