This Week @ the IU Art Museum

This Week @ the IU Art Museum  April 25, 2011

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition
Opening Reception Friday, April 29, 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor Group 3 Yang Chen, photography Erin Goedtel, painting Cathy Marks, metals

COMING NEXT WEEK: One-Hour Exhibition

Student Picks Friday, May 6, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Visitors should meet in the museum's third floor office. No pre-registration is required, but space is limited. Admission will be on a first come-first served basis. Robert Doisneau (French, 1912-1944). The Indignant Lady, Plate 14 from the portfolio, Robert Doisneau, 1948 (printed 1979). Gelatin silver print. Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert E. Vore, IU Art Museum 81.72.1A. In celebration of IU's spring graduation, this one-hour "drop-in" exhibition will feature prints, drawings, and photographs selected by the IU Art Museum's Student Academic Committee for Mellon Programs. Among the students' diverse favorites are works by Jean Arp, Giorgio Vasari, Rembrandt van Rijn, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Edvard Munch, Egon Schiele, Salvador Dali, Paul Klee, Robert Doisneau, and Walt Disney.

COMING NEXT WEEK: Art is Ageless

Art is Ageless Sunday, May 8, 2:00-3:30 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor The City of Bloomington Commission on Aging and the Center on Aging and Community invite you to participate in the Creative Aging Festival, a month-long city-wide celebration of Older Americans Month honoring our elders and their creative contributions to our community. At the IU Art Museum, enjoy a gallery tour with several of the museum's leading elder docents. Then stay for a reading of works by Bell Trace Senior Living Center writers who have been working with Tonia Matthew of the Writers Guild. In the art of aging, creatvity matters! Come be inspired. All events are free.

New at Angles Café & Gift Shop
Spring Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday Noon-5:00 p.m.

Graduate Students in Digital Arts and Humanities: A Conversation with IDAH’s HASTAC Scholars

Will Coogan

MA Student, Jacobs School of Music

“Multimedia Collaboration: the Process and the Results”

Will Coogan is currently a master’s candidate in Computer Music Composition. Most of his recent works involve collaboration between acoustic and electronic elements, including interactive computer processing for both audio and video. Will's new multimedia opera "Marabel" combines traditional operatic elements with interactive software, animation, video, and choreography. His discussion will focus on the collaborative process working with other artists, as well as on the use of mixed media as a way of engaging with audiences.

Grant Leyton Simpson

PhD Student, Department of English

Masters in Information Science Student, School of Library and Information Science

Senior Systems Analyst/Programmer for the Office of the Registrar

"Digital Humanities Prehistory and Future Pasts"

Is the digital humanities a sort of futurism? What might we find when we extend our gaze backward instead, to DH's prehistory? How did humanists and others involved in research and publishing conceptualize the relationship between computers and the humanities? How has this developed? In this presentation, Grant will pay particular attention to the visual aspects of published DH materials in his investigation of these questions.  His dissertation in the department of English, Computing the English Middle Ages, deals with the hermeneutics of electronic objects and processes from roughly 1960 to the present. In it he traces the use of computers in Old and Middle English research from the early days of humanities computing to contemporary digital humanities.

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Please join us!  Feel free to bring your lunch.

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The EU & Libya - Webinar

Yasir Suleiman Lectures

Language, Conflict and Inter-cultural (Mis)Communication

Monday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m.

Maple Room of the Indiana Memorial Union

Contextualising Islam in Britain

Wednesday, April 27 at noon

The Bridgwaters Lounge of the Neal-Marshal Black Culture Center

Please join us for light luncheon refreshments in conjunction with this noon lecture which is made possible with the assistance and support of West European Studies and the Center for the Study of the Middle East.

Goddesses, Bulls & Mounds - Archaeology of the Middle East

Goddesses, Bulls & Mounds

Archaeology of the Middle East

Site Expo Poster Session

Join us as students from ANTH P341/P541 and CUES 389/589 share their research about the archaeology of the Middle East. Posters feature research on a range of fascinating sites -- with details about the excavations, data analysis, site preservation and management efforts, and contemporary socio-politics of 30 different sites!

Friday, April 15

Student Bldg. Main Floor

10:15-12:30

Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies

Friday, April 22, 1:30-2:30 pm
Fine Arts, room 007


"Nazr Necessities: Votive Practices and Objects in Iranian Muharram Ceremonies" by Prof. Christiane Gruber, Department of Art History
Abstract:

Votive practices have thrived in Arab, Turkish, and Persian lands since the beginning of Islam to today. At the center of Islamic popular devotional practices stands the votive offering (nazr), by which a pious aspirant uses an object to secure a bond with a sacred entity, be it a place or person. Although it is clear from textual sources that ex-votos have been used since medieval times to make a request or to give thanks for a wish granted, they rarely survive today. Turning to contemporary Iranian Shi'i mourning ceremonies, especially those performed during the month of Muharram, can shed further light on the matter, however. Muharram rituals preserve and expand Islamic votive traditions, while also forwarding sectarian discourses. Moreover, they share intriguing overlaps with Christian and Zoroastrian votive customs, such as processional parades and communal meals. Based on fieldwork carried out in Tehran during December 2010, this paper discusses votive practices and objects used in contemporary Muharram ceremonies in order to explore more broadly how a "world of representations" ('alam al-mithal) can enable a devotee's dealings with the divine within Islamic traditions-- traditions which, in this particular instance, converge into a highly artistic votum complex that fuses Shi'i martyrial narratives with Christian and Zoroastrian ritual practices.

Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

  

The Islamic Studies Program and the Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center would like to invite you to attend the inaugural Studies in the Formation of Islam lecture. This year’s lecturer, Dr. Johan Elverskog, will speak about Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road. Please join us inaugurating the lecture series by welcoming Dr. Elverskog in the Indiana Memorial Union’s Walnut room at 4:00 pm on April 21st, 2011.

The meeting of Buddhism and Islam is often conceived as one of violent confrontation. Indeed, the Taliban’s destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in 2001 readily confirmed our preconceived imaginings: Islam is bad and violent, while Buddhism is good and peaceful. Yet, how accurate are these stereotypes? Moreover, how do these contemporary views shape our understanding of the past? The aim of this talk is to explore these questions by exploring the cultural exchanges that took place between Buddhists and Muslims in medieval Central Asia.

Dr. Elverskog is Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor and Professor of Religious Studies at Southern Methodist University.  He is also the Director of Asian Studies and the SMU-in-Suzhou Program. He teaches various courses on the history of Asian religions, and his research focuses on the history of Inner Asia. He is the author and editor of seven books, including most recently Buddhism and Islam on the Silk Road

Fatih Yildiz Lecture

Fatih Yildiz, Turkey's Consul General in Chicago, is giving a lecture concerning Turkey's foreign policy on April 28th.

Flier viewable here.

Khaos Play

Professor Yasir Suleiman Talks

The Center for the Study of the Middle East announces the upcoming visit of Professor Yasir Suleiman, His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa'id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies and a Fellow of King's College.

 

Professor Suleiman's research covers the cultural politics of the Middle East with special focus on identity, conflict, diaspora studies and modernization in so far as these issues relate to language, modern Arabic literature, translation and memory. He also conducts research in Arabic grammatical theory and the Arabic intellectual tradition in the pre-modern period.

Prof. Suleiman will present two public talks during his visit to Indiana University:

Language, Conflict and Inter-cultural (Mis)Communication

                Monday, April 25 at 4:30 p.m.

                Maple Room of the Indiana Memorial Union

Contextualising Islam in Britain

                Wednesday, April 27 at noon

                The Bridgwaters Lounge of the Neal-Marshal Black Culture Center

Please join us for light luncheon refreshments in conjunction with this noon lecture which is made possible with the assistance and support of West European Studies and the Center for the Study of the Middle East.

Professor Suleiman’s many published works include the following books: Arabic, Self and Identity: A study in Conflict and displacement (forthcoming, 2011), A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004), The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003), The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Tal'liil (1999), Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand (editor 2010), Literature and Nation in the Middle East (editor with Ibrahim Muhawi, 2006), Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1999), Arabic Grammar and Linguistics (editor, 1998), Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1996) Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and Perspectives (editor, 1994), and Living Islamic History (editor 2010). Professor Suleiman is working on two books (under contract): Arabic in the Fray: Constructing Languages, Constructing Identities (2012) and Being Palestinian (editor, 2012). He is a member of the editorial boards of a number of journals and book series.

Professor Suleiman acted as project leader for Contextualising Islam in Britain: Exploratory Perspectives (http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/http://www.cis.cam.ac.uk/).  A second phase of this project, funded by the British government, is underway.  Professor Suleiman lectured internationally, including in the Middle East, US, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.

Professor Suleiman is Chair of the Panel of Judges, British-Kuwaiti Friendship Society Book Prize on Middle Eastern Studies. He serves as Trustee on the Boards of the following organisations: Arab-British Chamber of Commerce Charitable Fund, International Prize for Arab Fiction (in association with the Man-Booker Prize), Banipal Trust for Arab Literature and Gulf Research Centre-Cambridge. He is also Board Member of the Islamic Manuscript Association (TIMA).Professor Suleiman is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, formerly Head of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and Founding Director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre of Islamic Studies.

This Week @ the IU Art Museum

Special Event

Charles-François Daubigny (French, 1817-1878). View of Dordrecht, 1872-73. Oil on panel. Gift of Stuart M. Sperry, IU Art Museum 2000.201 Europe Day Celebration Wednesday, April 13, 5:00−7:00 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium To commemorate Europe Day, the IU Art Museum will partner with IU's European Union Center to host a "Getting to Know Europe" celebration with works of art, music, and open dialogue between EU Center staff and visitors. In addition, the EU Center and IU Art Museum are pleased to welcome Sven Schumacher, Honorary Consul of the Federal Republic of Germany to Indianapolis, and Ramin Navai, British Deputy Consul General to Chicago, as honorary guests and speakers at this event. For more information, visit www.iub.edu/~eucenter. Noon Talk Inuit peoples, Alaska.Toggle in the Form of a Figure, nineteenth century (?). Sperm whale ivory, h. 1¾ in. Raymond and Laura Wielgus Collection, IU Art Museum 2010.37 Whales, Ice, and Men: The Inuit and Artistic Change Thursday, April 14, 12:15-1:00 p.m. Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas, Focalpoint, third floor Teresa Wilkins, an IU Art Museum graduate assistant, will discuss how the commercial whaling industry impacted indigenous Inuit art practices, using objects on view in Cultures in Flux: Art of the Pacific Northwest, which she organized. Special Poetry Event INTERSECTIONS: Middle Eastern Poetries and the Arts Thursdays, April 7, 14, and 21, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Meet in the Thomas T. Solley Atrium, second floor    In honor of National Poetry Month, the Indiana University Art Museum will host a series of three consecutive Thursday evenings of Middle Eastern poetry featuring different themes: Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew. Each evening will include poetry readings in both the original language and in English, live music, and opportunities to view Middle Eastern art from the museum's collections. INTERSECTIONS is presented in partnership with the IU Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. For more information please visit: www.indiana.edu/~nelc/ events/intersections.shtml. Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception Friday, April 15 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor Group 2 Carmen Abbott, painting Robert S. Adams, ceramics Joel T. Dugan, painting New at Angles Café & Gift Shop Come see the spring umbrella collection inspired by Harold Feinstein's signature collection. His photographs can be found in MOMA as well as other major museums around the world. The new umbrellas come in two sizes (cane :48" and collapsible: 44") and various colors to choose from. Spring Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday Noon-5:00 p.m.

Human Rights and Capacity Building in Emerging Democracies: The International Human Rights Law Institute in Iraq.

Major General Charles Tucker

(Professor of Law at DePaul University and

  Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute)

April 14, 2011 (12:00 – 1:00 PM)
CCD Conference Room
624 E. 3rd Street
Bloomington, IN 47405

Abstract: “The International Human Rights Law Institute has undertaken seven multi-million dollar federally funded capacity building grants aimed at supporting human rights initiatives, the growth of civil society organizations, and the sustainability of democratic legal reform in Iraq. Working in cooperation with local universities, institutions and NGOs in Iraq, the International Human Rights Law Institute has primarily focused its efforts on the support and advocacy of women’s rights and sexual minorities, the improvement of law schools and legal education, and the institutionalization of democratic processes to support Iraq’s most vulnerable populations.”

Bio:  Major General (Retired) Charles E. Tucker (USAF) is the Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Institute. For more than 25 years, he has been an international rule of law and humanitarian law practitioner. He was routinely seconded to the US State Department and various International Organizations. He served multiple tours of duty with the United Nations in various countries and served as Economic and Legal Adviser for the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He also served as an International Law Adviser in the Office of the US Secretary of Defense. Additionally, he served as Legal Adviser for the US Ambassador in Iraq, as well as for State Department and DOD missions in Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Central and South America. He was named the Air National Guard’s Outstanding Judge Advocate. In his civilian capacity, he served as a Senior Field Attorney for the National Labor Relations Board, where he oversaw the NLRB General Counsel’s adjudication of complex labor rights cases.

Chuck is an accomplished lecturer and has authored numerous manuals on international legal matters. He was an Assistant Professor of Law at the US Air Force Academy, as well as Course Director of the Academy’s Comparative International Law Program. He is the founding Co-Editor of the USAFA Journal of Legal Studies. And he served as Adjunct Professor of Management for Bradley University and as an Adjunct faculty member for Wayland College. He is a 1979 graduate of the University of Notre Dame (BA, Government), a 1982 graduate of the DePaul University College of Law (JD) and a 2003 graduate of the US Air War College.

Prior to his military retirement, Chuck was Director of Joint Doctrine, Training and Force Development for the National Guard Bureau. He was responsible for developing training and exercise policies/programs to ensure joint units of the National Guard were ready to respond to their homeland defense and homeland security missions. He oversaw the Joint Commander Training Course, the Joint State Staff Officer Course, and the National Guard Homeland Defense & Joint Interagency Training Centers. He also formulated Joint Professional Military Education policy and coordinated review of all Joint Professional Military Education curricula.

Marian University - Global Policy Presentations

"Ethics, Interpretation, and the Torture Memos" Thursday, April 14, 2011 7 p.m. Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Memorial Library Auditorium

Peter Brooks  has written in the Chronicle Review about the ethics of the legal interpretation used to justify the so-called "torture memos" written by John Yoo." He is Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Scholar in the University Center for Human Values and the Department of Comparative Literature at Princeton. Among his other teaching, he has been directing  a three-year seminar, open to students and faculty, on "The Ethics of Reading and the Cultures of Professionalism." He was also a Sterling Professor of comparative literature and French at Yale University, where he began teaching in 1965. Brooks was the founding director of Yale's Whitney Humanities Center (1981-91), and served again as director from 1996-2001. He also chaired the Departments of Comparative Literature and French. From 2003 to 2006, Brooks was a professor in English and law at the University of Virginia, where he founded the Program in Law and Humanities. He is also the author of several books. His essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, London Review of Books, and elsewhere. He has served as a member of the Executive Council of the Modern Language Association, the Stanford Humanities Center Advisory Board, and the Humanities Advisory Council of the New York Public Library. He has held visiting professorships at the University of Texas, the University of Copenhagen, the University of Bologna, the Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard University and as Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. Brooks received his bachelor of arts, and doctorate in comparative literature degrees from Harvard University and studied at the University of London as a Marshall Scholar. His current interests include law and literature, realism in literature, and painting, the study of character and identity. Dr. Brooks has written in the Chronicle Review about the ethics of the legal interpretation used to justify the so-called "torture memos" written by John Yoo. Register Now.

Tagore's "Religion of Man" - Martha Nussbaum

Tagore’s “Religion of Man”

Martha Nussbaum
Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
University of Chicago

Friday, April 22 at 5:30 pm
State Room East
Indiana Memorial Union

ABSTRACT
Nineteenth-century political thinkers grew obsessed with the question of how politics might
motivate citizens to depart from narrow egoism and greed, accepting sacrifices for the sake
of fair political institutions and a decent living standard for all. Auguste Comte’s “Religion of
Humanity” had enormous influence all over the world, including India, where leading Bengali intellectuals adapted his ideas to their own situation. Meanwhile, Comte’s proposals, which asked for a great deal of social homogeneity and control, were undergoing criticism and reformulation—by John Stuart Mill in Britain, and later by Tagore in his 1930 Hibbert Lectures in Oxford. Tagore and Mill agree in basing the new humanistic religion in a cultivation of individual freedom and self-expression, but Tagore, drawing on the Baul tradition, gives it a more richly emotional foundation.

Are We Stuck in the Nuclear Age?

Sir Lawrence Freedman

Professor of War Studies and Vice-Principal

King's College, London

Sir Lawrence Freedman’s career has been marked by impressive contributions to the understanding of nuclear issues, both historic and strategic, culminating in his seminal publication The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy, now in its 3^rd addition and widely acclaimed as a standard within the field. Sir Lawrence has been Vice Principal (Research) of King’s College since 2003 and a Fellow since 1992. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 1995 and appointed Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1996 and Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George in 2003. Sir Lawrence served as Foreign Policy advisor to Tony Blair, and is the Official Historian of the Falklands Campaign. In June 2009, he was appointed to serve as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War.

                                                                                                                                                                 

Thursday, April 14 at 6:30 pm

President’s Room, University Club

Indiana Memorial Union

Getting Elected to Parliament with a Headscarf: The politics, the glass ceiling, and Islamophobia

Getting Elected to Parliament with a Headscarf:

The politics, the glass ceiling, and Islamophobia

Mahinur Ozdemir

Monday April 11, 2011, 4:00 PM

Woodburn 120

Mahinur Ozdemir was elected at the age of 26 to Brussels’ Regional Parliament (2009) and is a member of the Belgian party Humanist Democratic Center (CDH). Before that, she served on the city council of the Schaerbeek district of Brussels. She serves on several organizations to help the advancement of minorities in Belgium and received several awards for her work. Mahinur Ozdemir earned a degree in political science and public administration from Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Horizons of Knowledge Lecture: Bozena Shallcross

Flier may be viewed here.

Rebetiki Istoria Concert

The Modern Greek Program and West European Studies at Indiana University Bloomington has the pleasure to host Rebetiki Istoria, one of Athens' finest traditional rebetika bands, at the Ivy Tech John Waldron Performing Arts Center Auditorium on Monday, April 11, at 7:00 p.m.

Rebetika, for the uninitiated, is an urban musical form that is roughly analogous to the blues in American culture.  This syncretic music grew out of Greece’s population exchanges with Turkey in the 1920s and documents the experiences of the 1.3 million Orthodox inhabitants of Asia Minor who were forced to leave their homelands and migrate to Greece.  It is an immensely passionate musical genre that speaks the international language of 20^th-century popular song with a Greek twist: talking about love and romance, migration and dispossession, the struggle to survive in challenging economic conditions, the temptations of drugs and alcohol, and the longing for a better world. 

What makes the Rembetiki Istoria particularly special is that the audience is able to experience this amazing music across the boundaries of language and culture.  The band is accompanied by Yona Stamatis, a doctoral candidate in Ethnomusicology at the University of Michigan, who, in addition to playing with the band, will provide an opening introduction.  Additionally, song lyrics are translated into English so non-Greek speakers can better understand the performance.

UCLA Center for Near East Studies

http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/

UCLA's CNES has a plethora of relevant events and classes.

SKOMP Distinguished Lecture - Penelope Eckert of Stanford University

Indiana University's Anthropology Department presents the 2011 Annual David Skomp Distinguished Lecture in Anthropology: Dr. Penelope Eckert (Stanford University) Doing Adolescence: Linguistic Variation, Stylistic Practice, and the Construction of Social Meaning Sociolinguistic variation is best known for its correlations with broad demographic categories - class, gender, age, ethnicity. But the demographic patterns are in a sense epiphenomenal, reflecting indexical activity on a local level that connects indirectly, but systematically, to these categories. As a key element in stylistic practice, variation calls up social types and concerns that are constitutive of local, and ultimately global, social categories. This construction of social meaning is particularly active among adolescents, whose intense symbolic activity makes them the movers and shakers in linguistic change. This symbolic activity is an integral part of the emergence of a peer-based social order as the age cohort jointly appropriates social control from adults. Based on long-term ethnography in elementary and high schools, this talk will trace the emergence of a peer-based social order, showing how the formation of this social order is foundational to the organization of stylistic practice, and the emergence of an integrated system of social differentiation in language use. Penelope Eckert received her PhD in Linguistics from Columbia University in 1978. She is now a Professor of Linguistics at Stanford University, where she is also associated with the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology. She is widely known for her ethnographic approach to the study of variation in language, and is the author of numerous books and articles which have explored the ways in which variable features of language are reflected in individual identities and are used in turn to build and shape those identities. Among her best known works are Jocks and Burnouts: Social Identity in the High School (1989), Linguistic Variation as Social Practice (2000), and Language and Gender (with Sally McConnell-Ginet, 2003). 

Swain West 007
Thur April 21 - 530PM

Has Pakistan’s Democracy Progressed?

The IU Dhar India Studies Program presents

Has Pakistan’s Democracy Progressed?

Akbar Zaidi
Visiting Professor of International and Public Affairs
and of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies
Columbia University

Friday, April 15 at 5:30 pm
Dhar India Studies House
825 East 8th Street
(Corner of 8th & Woodlawn)

ABSTRACT

Unlike many other developing countries which have moved away from military rule in favor of strengthening democratic processes and institutions, Pakistan still struggles with  weak democratic structures following its most recent period of military rule.  This lecture will investigate why the country’s democracy is in such a state.  Are Pakistan’s political actors and civil society able to strengthen democracy in Pakistan, or will the chronic dynamics of a security state continue to determine Pakistan’s political future?  Has the United States played a role in strengthening democracy in Pakistan?  Has the War on Terror along with Pakistan’s military compromised democracy? Do Pakistan’s political and civilian actors have the ability to establish democracy at all?

IU Art Museum Weekly Events

Special Exhibition

Eyes behind the Camera: The Congolese Share Their Story April 1-April 22, 2011 Thomas T. Solley Atrium, second floor Co-sponsored by Giving Back to Africa, Inc., and the IU Art Museum In January 2011, orphans, students, and teachers at Program of Aid and Integration to the Underprivileged (PAID) in the Democratic Republic of Congo took photos of their community and lives as part of a participatory media project and exchange with schools in Bloomington.

New in the Galleries

The Prodigal Son: A Tale of Loss and Forgiveness April 5-October 2, 2011 Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor This installation features three scenes from the New Testament parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15: 11-32) by three Northern European printmakers: the prodigal son wasting his patrimony (Jacob Matham), the prodigal son hitting rock bottom in the pigsty (Albrecht Dürer), and the prodigal son's return home to the welcoming arms of his father (Rembrandt van Rijn).  Cultures in Flux: Art of the Pacific Northwest April 5-July 31, 2011 Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas, Focalpoint, third floor From customary objects, such as a shaman's amulet, to those made for trade, such as a cribbage board in the form of a seal, the arts of Native American peoples of the Northwest Coast reveal both persistence and change through time. This small exhibition showcases a sampling of these artistic traditions drawn from the museum's permanent collections as well as loans from the Lilly Library, the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, and a private collection. Cultures in Flux is organized by Teresa Wilkins, a graduate student in the Department of the History of Art and a graduate assistant at the IU Art Museum for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

Continuing Studies Class

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890).Portrait of Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, 1890. Etching on paper. IU Art Museum 77.52 The World of Van Gogh in Art and Music This spring marks the world premier of the opera Vincent at the IU Jacobs School of Music. Join us at the IU Art Museum to look at van Gogh the artist and to delve into the world of the opera. Heidi Gealt will provide a brief overview of van Gogh's career with highlights of his finest works and discuss the van Gogh drawing in the museum's collection. Constance Glen will discuss the approaches taken by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Bernard Rands and librettist J. D. McClatchy. Experience the drama and the music of Vincent through the use of video, slides, recordings, and live piano. IU Opera performance dates of Vincent are April 8, 9, 15, and 16. Instructors: Heidi Gealt is the director of the IU Art Museum and curator of Western art before 1800. Constance Cook Glen is the coordinator and a lecturer for the Music in General Studies Program (MGS) at the IU Jacobs School of Music. Dates and Times: The class is offered at two different dates: Tuesday, April 5, 11:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and Thursday, April 7, 7:00-8:30 p.m. Tuesday Location: IU Art Museum Thursday Location: Monroe County Public Library Auditorium, 303 E. Kirkwood Avenue Senior Fee 55+: $40; Regular Fee: $50 For more information and to register, contact IU Bloomington Continuing Studies at (812) 855-9335 or visitwww.continue.indiana.edu.

Noon Talk

Between Two Cultures Wednesday, April 6, 12:15-1:00 p.m. Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor Vivian Nun Halloran, director of the Asian American Studies  Program and associate professor of comparative literature, will discuss the use of Japanese and American imagery and the role of cross-cultural identity in Roger Shimomura's Kansas Samurai. This program is presented in conjunction with Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

One-Hour Exhibition

Garry Winogrand (American, 1928-1984).Hollywood Street Scene, 1969. Gelatin silver print. IU Art Museum 81.25.2 Street Photography Friday, April 8, 3:00-4:00 p.m. Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor Visitors should meet in the museum's third floor office. No pre-registration is required, but space is limited. Admission will be on a first come-first served basis. This month's "drop-in" works-on-paper viewing room exhibition will feature work by urban documentary photographers who take their cameras out into the streets, including Weegee, Brassaï, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau, André Kertész, Robert Frank, and Garry Winogrand. This program is presented in conjunction with "Celebrating the Museum," a yearlong initiative to raise awareness about the treasures in Bloomington's museums.

Special Poetry Event

INTERSECTIONS: Middle Eastern Poetries and the Arts Thursdays, April 7, 14, and 21, 7:00-9:00 p.m. Meet in the Thomas T. Solley Atrium, second floor In honor of National Poetry Month, the Indiana University Art Museum will host a series of three consecutive Thursday evenings of Middle Eastern poetry featuring different themes: Persian, Arabic, and Hebrew. Each evening will include poetry readings in both the original language and in English, live music, and opportunities to view Middle Eastern art from the museum's collections. INTERSECTIONS is presented in partnership with the IU Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures. For more information please visit: www.indiana.edu/~nelc/ events/intersections.shtml.

Art in Focus

Van Gogh in Focus Sunday, April 10, 2:15 p.m. Gallery of the Art of the Western World, IU Art Museum Nan Brewer, the Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, will talk about the IU Art Museum's Vincent van Gogh etching,Portrait of Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet. Lust for Life (1956) Sunday, April 10, 3:00 p.m. IU Cinema Vincente Minelli directed this biographical movie about Vincent Van Gogh's adulthood, from his dismissal from divinity school through his tempestuous relationship with drawing and painting. Through its re-creation of the spaces that haunt van Gogh's paintings-his sparse bedroom, the fields of flowers, and the starry nights-Lust for Lifeportrays a brilliant artist teetering on the edge of despair or success, sanity and insanity. The film was nominated for six Academy Awards, including Kirk Douglas for Best Actor. The film will be introduced by James Naremore, author of The Films of Vincente Minnelli and Professor Emeritus, Department of Communication and Culture.

Master of Fine Arts Thesis Exhibitions

March 30-May 8, 2011 Special Exhibitions Gallery, first floor Opening Receptions: Fridays from 6:00-8:00 p.m. Thomas T. Solley Atrium, first floor Group 1 March 30-April 10 Eun Young Choi, metals Travis Hinkle, painting Stephanie Watters Flores, graphic design Erin Robinson, digital art Group 2 April 13-24 Reception: Friday, April 15 Carmen Abbott, painting Robert S. Adams, ceramics Joel T. Dugan, painting Group 3 April 27-May 8 Reception: Friday, April 29 Yang Chen, photography Erin Goedtel, painting Cathy Marks, metals

New at Angles Café & Gift Shop
New scarves; "Color waves"-acrylic. "Zig Zag"-cotton. "Ikat"-cotton scarves are must-have ones for the season. Spring Hours: Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Sunday Noon-5:00 p.m.