Mon, Nov 03, 2008
November 3, 2008
Sheldon Presents Work From the Permanent Collection
As part of an ongoing fall series that presents works categorized by subject matter, the Sheldon Museum of Art presents new installations in Landscape and Figurative art. The work highlights the upcoming transformation in the permanent collection galleries and also includes pieces in Still Life, Portraiture, Genre Scenes, and Contemporary)
The Figurative and Portrait galleries will highlight work by renowned artists such as Mary Cassatt and Alice Neel, but also will recognize work by artists sometimes overlooked such as San Francisco Bay Area figurative artist Paul John Wonner.
SHELDON MUSEUM OF ART
NEBRASKA UNION HERITAGE ROOM, 3PM
Native American Heritage Month Lecture - "Native American Health Care: Barriers and Possibilities"
Dr. Darryl Tonemah
iTunes and UNL Offer Free Fall Music Mix
Enjoy this special collection of songs hand-picked by the iTunes team for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. With 80 free songs from some of the biggest names in music and today's hottest up-and-coming artists, this mix is sure to put your fall semester in tune. Get your Fall Music Mix and check out University of Nebraska-Lincoln on iTunes U.
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MARY RIEPMA ROSS MEDIA ARTS CENTER
Elegy and I Served the King of England Play at the Ross
UNL's Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center presents Elegy and I Served the King of England. I Served the King of England will show one week only through November 6, while Elegy will screen through November 13.
Like director Isabel Coixet's previous film My Life Without Me, Elegy is consumed by the ideas of love and mortality. But while that film focused on a young protagonist, the hero of this drama is an aging writer and professor played by Ben Kingsley. David Kepesh (Kingsley) is a minor literary celebrity in New York City who shies away from commitment, happy with his casual relationship with a businesswoman (Patricia Clarkson) who is rarely in town. But a date with a stunning grad student named Consuela (Penelope Cruz) surprisingly turns into a long-term romance, changing David from a confident Lothario into a jealous boyfriend. His age and her beauty haunt their romance until David begins to push her away. The largely classical soundtrack further adds to the film's contemplative mood.
Jan Dite (Ivan Barnev), the plucky little waiter who bounces around central Europe in Jiri Menzel's epic comedy I Served the King of England, has colossal ambitions. Catering to political and military fat cats at a fancy brothel in 1930s Czechoslovakia, his appetites are piqued as he observes these pompous boors washing down obscenely rich banquets with beer and brandy. As the song says, "Them that’s got shall get..." These scenes of marathon gourmandizing offer some of the most pungently satirical observations of unfettered gluttony ever filmed. There is hardly a moment in this new film in which you are not aware that its absurdist view of the human condition was shaped by traumatic 20th-century events.
More information is available at the Ross website.
