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Events
July 19 - November 2, 2008
San Diego Museum of Art presents
Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes
Balboa Park
Organized by SDMA, this solo exhibition features the work of celebrated conceptual artist and Visual Arts Professor Emeritus Eleanor Antin. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin's recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based on Greek and Roman history and mythology, which are presented together for the first time.
The exquisitely staged photographs from Antin's three new series, Roman Allegories, Last Days of Pompeii, and Helen's Odyssey, are witty and psychologically complex melodramatic enactments of mythological and fictional classical narratives. The artist's friends and models pose in various locations throughout San Diego (including SDMA's a classically transformed James S. Copley Auditorium) that are suggestive of sites from the ancient world.
In her new works, created from 2001 to 2008, Antin engages photography in a dialogue with nineteenth-century European salon painting, evident in the staging and backdrops of her photos that were inspired or transformed from the grand tradition of European history painting. The works are affectionate spoofs on classical culture with metaphorical parallels to the excesses of contemporary consumer economy.
Antin's most recent photographs are presented along with a selection of works from three of her earlier quasi-historical projects from the 1970s and 1980s, The King of Solana Beach (1974-1975), The Angel of Mercy (1977), and Recollections of My Life with Diaghilev (1981-1987).
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July 25 - October 12, 2008
University Art Gallery presents Shaun Gladwell
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Gladwell's practice critically engages personal experience as well as wider speculation upon art history and the dynamics of contemporary culture. This range of interest and sources is explored through a variety of mediums, but in recent years most particularly video installation. His recent projects in video have made discursive links between historical models and understanding of the body in space such as the flâneur and contemporary cultural figures such as the skateboarder, the motocross rider, the freestyle BMX rider, the graffiti artist and other physical and street performers. The work generally deals with performative figures in space, disrupting the social and architectural programming of urban spaces in particular.
Shaun Gladwell (b. 1972
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August 6 - October 3, 2008
gallery@calit2 presents Adriene Jenik and *particle group*
Atkinson Hall
August 6 through September 19:
Wednesday - Friday: 11AM - 5PM
September 22 through October 2:
Monday - Friday: 11AM - 5PM
New-media art installations that caution visitors about a future when books are relics of the past, and nanoparticles represent a pervasive threat to human health, will be on display starting August 4 at the gallery@calit2 on the campus of the University of California, San Diego.
The joint exhibition will present "SPECFLIC 2.6" by UC San Diego Visual Arts professor Adriene Jenik, and "Particles of Interest" by *particle group*, an art collective composed of independent and UCSD-based artists and writers.
The art installations ask the viewer to consider a not-so-distant future in which individuals will be intimately connected to networks not only through our computers, but via nanoparticles in or on our own bodies.
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August 19 - September 28, 2008
La Jolla Playhouse presents Memphis
Mandell Weiss Theatre
We're talkin' downtown, down-home Memphis of the '50s. Rock 'n' roll is taking over the airways, Elvis is a wannabe, and a downright demented deejay named Huey is spinning the music of black and white America together for the first time. From the author of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change and Over the River and Through the Woods, and the keyboardist of Bon Jovi, comes a rafter-rattling musical that immortalizes the man who gave rock its original roll.
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September 2 - 16, 2008
UCSD Libraries co-presents Festival of the Book
Geisel Library
The University of California, San Diego Libraries and San Diego Book Arts are co-sponsoring a Fall Festival of the Book: a series of exhibitions, lectures, and a film screening to celebrate the artistry and craftsmanship of handmade and rare books. The events, which will be held from September through October, are all free and open to the public.
The Festival will kick-off Sept. 2 with “Books in Miniature,” an exhibition at UC San Diego’s Geisel Library that will feature a selection of rare and unusual miniature books from the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library at UCLA. The show, curated by UC San Diego’s Mandeville Special Collections Library, will be on display through Sept. 16.
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September 16 - October 19, 2008
La Jolla Playhouse presents The Third Story
Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre
Written by and Starring Charles Busch
Directed by Carl Andress
Omaha, 1949...Peg, a brazen screenwriter of Hollywood's Golden Age, has been a stowaway on a Chinese junk, escaped a cannibal village and had her ankle kissed by a young Tyrone Power - but now that the boys have taken over Hollywood, she's out of work. Ever optimistic, Peg approaches her son to collaborate on a new script to resurrect her faded career. Although Drew has fled Tinseltown for the quiet life of a Midwestern mail carrier, he reluctantly joins his mother to draft a crazy adventure through time, the uncertainties of science and the bonds of love.
Their flights of imagination bring together an elegant and hardscrabble Queen of the Mob, a chilly scientist harboring a seething passion and a romantic fairytale set in a Russian forest. Add to that a botched science experiment named Zygote with seven nipples and a chemical dependency, and a tough guy with a serious case of claustrophobia, and you have The Third Story.
Uplifting, imaginative and endlessly funny, The Third Story delights in the stories we tell to make sense of our lives.
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September 30 - October 26, 2008
La Jolla Playhouse presents Tobacco Road
Mandell Weiss Forum
Adapted by Jack Kirkland
From the Novel Tobacco Road
By Erskine Caldwell
Directed by David Schweizer
Georgia, 1932...the Lester family has become squatters on their ramshackle, destitute farm. Descended from a family of sharecroppers, Jeeter and Ada have been abandoned by their children, the government and their landowner. Barely surviving without fuel, seed, money or credit, Jeeter maintains a stubborn dedication to the land despite the hopelessness of their situation.
Disconnected from her children, Ada's remaining wish is for a decent calico dress and her favorite child Pearl's happiness. Trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man, Pearl longs to make a new life for herself in the city. A traveling female preacher, Bessie - who fiercely proselytizes despite her penchant for sin - falls for the Lesters' son Dude, who agrees to marry her when she offers to buy him a car. In a desperate end game that is both darkly humorous and disturbing, everyone's lives are changed forever. But a final act of love outshines the meanness of their lives.
First dramatized for the stage in 1933 by Jack Kirkland and rarely performed since, Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road ran on Broadway for a remarkable seven and a half years. Its abrasive humor, lewd religiosity and savage sexuality shocked Depression-era audiences and critics alike. This searing and modern production promises to astound a new generation with its emotionally gripping and glaringly truthful look at humanity.
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November 11 - December 31, 2008
La Jolla Playhouse presents Xanadu
Mandell Weiss Theatre
Book by Douglas Carter Beane
Music & Lyrics by John Farrar & Jeff Lynne
Directed by Christopher Ashley
Venice Beach, 1980...Xanadu follows the journey of a magical and beautiful Greek muse, Cleo, who descends from the heavens of Mt. Olympus to California on a quest to inspire a struggling artist, Sonny, to achieve the greatest creation of all time - the first ROLLER DISCO...hey, it's 1980.
This hilarious, roller-skating musical adventure about following your dreams despite the limitations others set for you, rolls along to the original hit score composed by pop-rock legends Jeff Lynne and John Farrar and includes, "Magic," "All Over the World," "Suddenly," "I'm Alive," "Evil Woman," "Have You Never Been Mellow" and "Xanadu."
Don't miss the magical tale that Variety calls "a guilt-free pleasure." It's a moving, electrifying tale of endless fun that will keep you in stitches, while the original, legendary chart- topping tunes will lift you out of your seat.
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2008/09
Upcoming Lectures
November 13, 2008: Amira Hass
"What Makes Israeli Colonial Policies So Successful?"
February 23, 2009: David Tracy
Check back for talk titles, times and locations.
Click here for more info on the Burke Lectureship on Religion & Society.
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