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Photographer Peter Frey discusses
photos he took earlier this year in Iraq |
Photographer Peter Frey traveled
to Iraq in February of 2004, on leave from his position
as photo editor for Columns. He was part of a
crew producing a documentary about Iraq but he made use
of the chance to take numerous still photographs of street
scenes in Baghdad.
At 4 p.m. Sept. 29 in room 213 of the Student
Learning Center, Frey will show and discuss his photographs.
The presentation, called “The Accidental Occupier,”
is sponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts and
is open free to the public.
Frey has undertaken many independent documentary projects
during the last decade. In November of 2003 he photographed
Guatemala election observers from the Organization of
American States. That same fall he had a one-man show
of his photographs of Cuba and Mexico in the Tate Student
Center Gallery. He continues to document the Athens music
scene, and he is compiling years of archival photos. |
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Art exhibitions.
The Xerces Society, Installment VI:
Sir Samuel Cropia’s Public Laboratory. Through Oct. 10.
Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday;
and 1–5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.
The Xerces Society, Installment VI:
Sir Samuel Cropia’s Public Laboratory is a collaborative
project led by Laleh Mehran, a professor in the digital media department
of the Lamar Dodd School of Art. Mehran is working with students
and faculty from the art school, Ideas for Creative Exploration,
the Georgia Museum of Natural History and the department of entomology
in transforming the Letitia and Rowland Radford Study Collection
Gallery into a laboratory of art and science.
The exhibition, a contemporary work of performance and installation
art, will address the blurring of the intersections between art,
science and politics. This installment of the Xerces Society displays
the typical workplace of a lepidopterist, Sir Samuel Cropia, who
harbors a fanatical devotion to his butterflies and beliefs. Sir
Cropia is a fictitious, world-renowned lepidopterist known for an
extreme dedication to the preservation and proliferation of butterflies.
Regular performances by various laboratory players and the presentation
of key artifacts will help reveal the malevolent nature of Sir Cropia’s
research and methodologies. In the laboratory, Sir Cropia’s
private goals subtly manifest themselves through painstaking manipulation
of laboratory personnel and the exploitation of scientific authority.
The intention of the Xerces Society, whose title makes reference
to the North American butterfly conservation society and the ancient
king of Persia, intends, as it enters its sixth year, to investigate
the complexities of fanaticism and ideology under the auspices of
art and science.
Regal Bodies, Royal Splendor: Reflections
on Velázquez and Philip IV of Spain. Through Nov. 14.
Georgia Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday;
and 1–5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.
A full-length portrait of Philip IV, king of Spain (1621–65)
and of Portugal (1621–40), forms the centerpiece of the exhibition.
Attributed to the famous Spanish court painter Diego Velázquez
(1599–1660), it belongs to a private collection in Atlanta.
The painting highlights the importance of dress, posture and gesture
in 17th-century courtly portraits. Dressed in their finest, kings,
queens and aristocrats posed for paintings that clarified their
social status, prosperity and lineage. Artists like Velázquez
became powerful courtiers as well, playing an important role in
the politics of courtly culture.
Regal Bodies, Royal Splendor
investigates the ways in which monarchs and aristocrats were depicted
by famous painters like Velázquez, Peter Paul Rubens and
Anthony Van Dyck. It also examines the relationship between patrons
and the artists they commissioned to paint their pictures. While
painted portraits were expensive commissions and usually accessible
only to family, friends and select political figures, their printed
counterparts were more easily available, dispersing information
about famous personages throughout 17th-century Europe. Van Dyck’s
famous series The Iconography
(1632–44) was one such outstanding example of prints that
paid homage to great patrons and artists of the time. Several prints
chosen from the series in the museum’s permanent collections
complement the portrait of Philip IV. In addition, a drawing attributed
to Van Dyck from the Ceseri collection on extended loan to the museum
enables viewers to study the extent to which artists studied courtly
costume in preliminary sketches before they painted grand portraits.
In addition to analyzing the etiquette and costumes of courtly baroque
culture, the exhibition also invites viewers to study the problem
of artistic attribution.
On Oct. 23, the museum will host a daylong scholarly symposium
on the art and architecture of Spain during the reign of Philip
IV.
Etchings by Rembrandt from the S.
William Pelletier Collection. Through Nov. 16. Georgia
Museum of Art. Open 10 a.m.–5 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday,
Friday and Saturday; 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Wednesday; and
1–5 p.m. Sunday. 542-4662.
This exhibition of etchings and drypoints was organized from the
estate of the late S.W. Pelletier, a lifelong collector of works
on paper. As a fledgling professor of chemistry at UGA, Pelletier
began assembling his collection. He seized opportunities to comb
the galleries and museums of cities hosting scientific meetings
he attended as a young scientist. He always was drawn to works on
paper, and this quest fueled visits to international auction houses
and museums and resulted in endless hours spent in conversation
with curators. Nothing gave him greater pleasure than to be locked
away in the print rooms of the British Museum in London or to visit
a European print cabinet in Düsseldorf: learning, researching
and studying the techniques of the masters.
This exhibition of Rembrandt’s etchings and drypoints is arranged
from Pelletier’s extraordinary collection of the Dutch master’s
prints. Their subjects range from biblical stories and self-portraits
to portraits of his mother and scenes of 17th--century peasant life.
Laundry hanging on a line, a bird in the eaves of a barn, or a dog’s
leash bring the viewer into the simple world of the Dutch peasant,
creating empathy for their human condition.
Pitch. Through Oct. 8.
Main gallery, visual arts building (open 8 a.m.–5 p.m.
weekdays). Sponsored by School of Art. 542-1511.
Martha Whittington creates installations and sculpture that are
temporal, ephemeral and fragile. The artist fills the room with
symphonic puffs of black and white dust by throwing felt sacks full
of powdered charcoal and marble against the walls and ceiling.
With results that are unpredictably elegant and delightfully subversive,
she blurs the conventional distinction between marble sculpture
and charcoal drawing. The artist says, “The dark graphic marks
on the wall resemble the residue of buckshot, like holes blown in
the wall. The viewer does not see the objects thrown, but the sensation
of the impact remains.”
Whittington holds an M.F.A. from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia
and a B.F.A. from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has been living
in Atlanta for six years, and currently has a studio in Grant Park.
The artist has recently been included in exhibitions at the Atlanta
Contemporary Art Center, Eyedrum, the B-Complex and Agnes Scott
College.
Paintings by Robin Bolton.
Through Oct. 17. Conservatory. Open Tuesday–Saturday,
9 a.m.–4:30 p.m.; Sunday 11:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-1244.
Bolton, who received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the University
of Georgia, will exhibit landscapes and still lifes created in an
impressionistic style, in addition to some of her abstract works.
Many of Bolton’s landscapes depict scenes from north Georgia
and the area around Lake Burton, where her parents have a home.
Subjects for her still lifes, such as Spring
Bouquet with Magnolia, often include floral arrangements.
Bolton is a member of the National Association of Women Artists,
and her paintings have appeared in the Fine Arts Museum of the South
in Mobile, Ala., as well as Georgia’s Fine Arts Center in
Marietta. Her work has also been reviewed and discussed in Atlanta
Women’s News, the Boston
Globe, and Museums and Galleries
Magazine. She was recently commissioned by Persimmon Creek
Vineyards in north Georgia to create images for labels.
Works by Tony Cleto. Through
Oct. 8. Tate Student Center Art Gallery. Sponsored by University
Union. 542-6396.
Visiting professor Tony Cleto will display paintings and texts that
reflect the struggles of people living in and around Lisbon, Portugal,
where the artist was born and recently returned for nine years.
Specifically, Cleto focuses on the town of Ericeira and the challenges
it faces as it is forced to change its economic structure from fishing
to tourism in order to survive. According to the artist, “the
stress of having been forced to adapt without adequate preparation
to a slick, technological world of rapid communications and shifting
boundaries after joining the European Community has left these people
in shock while watching TV. Their 19th-century pre-industrialized
world is crumbling and there are not enough resources for sustained
growth and an eventual possibility to cope.” Cleto uses metaphor,
symbol, photos, sound, painting and text to bring the depression
of those living in Ericeira into the open.
Cleto received his B.F.A from Washington University and went on
to complete a master in fine arts degree at the Pratt Institute
in New York.
He has lectured in Missouri, New York, Atlanta, Germany and Portugal
and has exhibited his work at numerous galleries and art shows around
the world, most recently at the Reflex Gallery in Amsterdam, Holland,
and at the Kimbrell-Warlick Art Center.
Tuesday, September 28
IHDD Core Seminar on Disability.
“Multicultural Awareness.” Irma Alvarado. 10 a.m.–noon.
River’s Crossing Building, 850 College Station Rd.
Sponsored by Institute on Human Development and Disability. 542-1290.
Graduate School Information Day.
10 a.m.–2 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center.
Sponsored by Career Center. 542-8429.
EECP Seminar.
“My Father’s Garden: A Video Discussion.” Carl
Jordan. 5 p.m. Founders House. Sponsored by Environmental Ethics
Certificate Program. 542-0935.
Visiting Artist
Lecture.
Willie Cole. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium, Georgia Museum
of Art. Sponsored by School of Art. 542-1511.
Hispanic Heritage Month Film.
Greener Grass: Cuba, Baseball and
the United States. 7 p.m. 150 Student Learning
Center. Sponsored by UGA Libraries. 583-0619.
Faculty Recital.
Martha Thomas, piano, performing works by Haydn, Beethoven, Reger
and Chopin. 8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by School of Music.
542-3737.
Wednesday, September 29
Workshop.
“Fall Is for Planting.” $18 (members $16). 8:15 a.m.–12:15 p.m.
Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.
Career Fair.
Noon–5 p.m. Classic Center, downtown. Sponsored by Career
Center. 542-8429.
Lunch-in-Theory.
“Dialogic Resonance: The Rhetoric of Coincidence and Intertextuality
in The Story of the Stone.” Kam-Ming Wong, comparative literature.
12:20 p.m. 147 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Center
for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
Hispanic Heritage Month Seminar.
“Selling the Public on Sustainable Watershed Conservation
in Latin America.” Fausto Sarmiento, College of Environment
and Design. 12:30 p.m. 290 S. Hull St. Sponsored
by Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 583-0619.
Lecture.
The Kennedy Assassination Tapes.
Max Holland. 3:30 p.m. Chapel. Sponsored by UGA Libraries.
542-2700.
Holland, a 20-year-old journalist and Washington insider, will speak
about his revelatory book, which chronicles Lyndon B. Johnson’s
conversations regarding the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath.
The conversations—most of them never before published—are
largely unexpurgated and expertly chosen. Holland received the J.
Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award for his research on the -Warren
Commission.
CHA Lecture.
“The Accidental Occupier.” Peter Frey. 4 p.m. 213 Student
Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for Humanities and Arts. 542-3966.
See story above.
Workshop.
“Attracting and Tagging Monarch Butterflies.” $6 per
child-parent team (members $5); second child $2. 4–6 p.m.
Sponsored by State Botanical Garden. 542-6156.
ArtBeat.
Art Rosenbaum, art, on Philip IV’s portrait from the perspective
of a contemporary artist. 5:30 p.m. Griffith Auditorium. Sponsored
by Georgia Museum of Art. 542-4662.
Lecture.
Andrew Sullivan. $2 (students free). Tickets: Tate Student Center
cashier’s window (542-8074, open 9 a.m.–4 p.m.).
7:30 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by University
Union. 542-6396.
Sullivan, an essayist for Time
magazine and a columnist for the Sunday
Times of London, speaks on a variety of social issues.
Latin American Film.
De Noche vienes, Esmeralda
(Mexico, 1997, directed by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo). 7:30 p.m.
Georgia Museum of Art. Co-sponsored by Romance languages department.
542-9227.
Thursday, September 30
Government Career Expo.
For UGA students seeking employment in the public sector. 10 a.m.–2 p.m.
Georgia Hall, Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Career Center. 542-8430.
Science for Humanists Lecture.
“Evolutionary Theory and Creationism: Two Cultures?”
Wyatt Anderson, Alumni Foundation Distinguished Professor of Genetics,
and Henry F. Schaefer, Graham Perdue Professor of Chemistry. 4 p.m.
248 Student Learning Center. Sponsored by Center for Humanities
and Arts. 542-3966.
Lanier Lecture.
“Machine Primitives: Avant-Garde Aesthetics and the Fascist
Cult of Youth.” Mark Antliff, Duke University. 4 p.m.
265 Park Hall. Sponsored by department of English. 542-7103.
Antliff, professor of art history at Duke University, will present
slides along with his lecture. He is the author of
Inventing Bergson: Cultural Politics and the Parisian Avant-Garde
as well as co-author of Fascist Visions:
Art and Ideology in France and Italy and, with Patricia Leighten,
Cubism and Culture, which explores
the social, cultural, political, scientific and philosophical aspects
of this seminal movement. Antliff and Leighten are also co-editors
of Witnesses to Cubism, 1906–1914:
A Documentary Anthology, forthcoming in 2005 from University
of Chicago Press.
Antliff was born in Canada and received his B.A. from McGill University,
his M.A. from Queen’s University, and his Ph.D. from Yale
University. An interdisciplinary scholar, Antliff’s research
and teaching interests focus on early modern European art and 20th-century
art, with special attention to cultural politics as well as the
interrelation of art and philosophy.
Faculty Authors Reception.
4–6 p.m. UGA Bookstore. Sponsored by Alumni Association.
avernon@uga.edu.
Books authored by UGA faculty will be displayed for viewing and
purchasing. All books will be on special for the reception only.
Friday, October 1
Groundbreaking
ceremony.
Lamar Dodd School of Art. 10:30 a.m. Performing and Visual
Arts Complex, East Campus. 542-1600.
International Coffee Hour.
11:30 a.m.–1:30 p.m. Memorial Hall Ballroom. Hosted
this week by Hispanic Student Association; sponsored by International
Student Life. 542-9079.
Women’s Studies Friday Speaker.
“Rape Law Reform: Have Times Really Changed?” Jody Clay-Warner,
sociology. 12:20 p.m. 250 Student Learning Center. Sponsored
by Women’s Studies Program. 542-2947.
UGA Bookstore Grand Reopening.
1 p.m. Bookstore, Tate Plaza.
Friday Natural History Tours.
4 p.m. Georgia Museum of Natural History. Not suitable for
children younger than 5; tour group size is limited. 542-1663.
Volleyball.
vs. Alabama. 7 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 542-7954.
Dawgs after Dark.
“Around the World.” $5 (students free). 10 p.m.–2 a.m.
Tate Student Center. Sponsored by Student Activities. 542-6396.
Saturday, October 2
Alcohol-free tailgate.
Family-friendly carnival. 12:30 p.m. Woodruff Practice Field
(corner of Lumpkin and Smith streets). Sponsored by Athletic Association
and Health Center.
Football.
vs. LSU. 3:30 p.m. Sanford Stadium. 542-1231.
Sunday, October 3
Volleyball.
vs. Auburn. 1:30 p.m. Ramsey Student Center. 542-7954.
Monday, October 4
Community, Ethnicity and Identity in
Context Seminar.
“Collaborative Opportunities.” Lily McNair, Spelman
College. 3 p.m. 106 Barrow Hall. Sponsored by Institute
for Behavioral Research. 542-1806.
Coming up
Concert of South Indian Music.
“Musical Odyssey in Rhythm Fantasies.” Oct. 5,
8 p.m. Ramsey Hall. Sponsored by Center for Asian Studies.
richmond@uga.edu.
UGA Symphony Orchestra Concerto Concert.
Oct. 7, 8 p.m. Hodgson Hall, Performing Arts Center. Sponsored
by School of Music. 542-3737.
Juggling Concert.
“Life: A Guide for the Perplexed.” Flying Karamazov
Brothers. $24–$29 (half-price students). Oct. 10, 7:30 p.m.
Hodgson Hall. Sponsored by Performing Arts Center (Showtime Series).
542-4400.
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