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| Friday, January 26,1990 Arts & Entertainment 9
|Art show includes new, inspirational twist
“Spoon Rabbits,’’ by Chris Weaver, is one of the faculty artworks on exhibit at 102 Richards
Hall.
wy Robert Richardson
Staff Reporter
. For an art show with a twist, try
“Artwork and Inspiration.”
First-time Director Karen Kune said
she is trying to bring a new element to
the faculty show.
“I hope to have a different art
show,” Kune said. “This is my chance
to do a little something different with
it and also to extend an understanding
without making everyone listen to a
lecture. It’s also an enjoyable way to
bring something out of the faculty.”
According to Professor of Art Dave
Routon, this isn’t just another art show.
All faculty artists in the show have
brought in the object that inspired
their artwork, he said.
The University of Nebraska-Lin
coln art faculty does many diverse
things, from photography to wood
cutting and welded steel to water
color. Most art in “Artwork and In
spiration” features work from the area
in which each instructor teaches,
Routon said.
“I enjoy teaching in art. I enjoy
being involved with people that are
interested in what lam,” he said.
Art Professor Dave Read has been
photographing towns since 1978. He
currently has eight photographs on
display in the gallery.
“I started traveling a lot to small
towns and taking pictures of things
that evoked small towns and their
ideas and values,” he said.
Read, who is originally from Bing
ham, Maine, brought in chocolate
sugar-donuts from Thompson’s res
taurant in Bingham as his inspiration.
But he wanted to bring in more.
“1 can’t bring in the town, and
they have the best donuts in the state
of Maine,” he explained.
Read’s photographs are simple
subjects like the “The S Curve” on
the highway outside of Bingham and
“Main Street” in Bingham.
“I try to make photographs that
are faithful to the place and have a
style that is natural to that place,”
Read said.
Kune specializes in woodcut de
sign, a method where designs are
carved in a wood block and color is
applied to the wood. The wood is then
pressed onto fabric several times to
achieve the desired result.
“I’ve been doing woodcut a little
over 10 years and the more 1 know
about color, the more I want to know.
It’s like increasing my vocabulary,”
Kune said.
Kune said woodcut has historical
precedence and is the oldest and most
historical printmaking process, be
cause wood has existed for centuries.
“It’s an incredible thing to see
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New sounds and pld favorites to play Lincoln
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By Mick Dyer
Senior Editor_
This week Lincoln is blessed with
the spiritually uplifting reggae music
of S.W.A.M.M.P. and the rockin’ soul
of the Dynatones, as well as many
other outstanding local and national
acts. Have your homework done early.
Alternative:
Sunday, Kaos and A Fifth of May
will play at Duffy’s, 1412 O St.
Kaos is a trio from Omaha that
plays tight effect-pedal and synthe
sizer pop tunes. It’s high energy music
and, although the songs sometimes
lack a feeling of direction, it is very
easy music to dance to.
A Fifth of May is a good, solid
alternative band from Omaha. Its music
is exhilarating, challenging and, above
all else, inspires listeners to dance.
Wednesday, the Return and Leafy
Green Things will play at Duffy’s.
The Return plays clear, clean
“popper-most to the topper-most,”
young John Lennon attitude music.
Leafy Green Things is gradually
taking over a niche in the local music
scene and is becoming one of Lin
coln’s perennial alternative favorites.
It is a different kind of band. It is an
often misunderstood band. It is a band
that plays its songs like a group of
trolls experiencing hairy, nocturnal
euphoria. Good stuff.
Country:
Today and Saturday, Travis Wag
ner will play at The Mountains, 311
S. 11th St.
Today through Sunday,The Sandy
Creek Band will play at The Prospec
tor, 640 W. Van Dorn.
Jazz/Blues:
Today, The Benders will play at
the Zoo Bar, 136 N. 14th St
Today and Saturday, The William
Clarke Blues Band will play at Bour
bon Street, 200 N. 70th Sl.
The William Clarke Blues Band,
from Los Angeles, was nominated for
six W.C. Handy Awards, the blues
musician's highest honor, in 1989.
Saturday, Lamont Cranston will
play at the Zoo Bar.
Sunday, The Monks will play at
Chesterfield’s, Lower Level 245 N.
13th St
The Monks is an entourage of
University of Nebraska-Lincoln stu
dents and graduates that plays a wide
variety of jazz standards ranging from
the ’40s to the present.
Monday, the Tablenockers will play
at the Zoo Bar.
Tuesday, S.W.A.M.M.P. will play
at the Zoo Bar.
S.W.A.M.M.P. was one of the most
popular and respected reggae bands
in Jamaica and shared the stage with
the likes of Third World and Bob
Marley and the Wailcrs. Now based
in Pittsburgh, Pa., S.W.A.M.M.P. is
[raveling throughout the United States
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J Yimou’s effort achieves intimacy
Iohn Payne
Reporter
imacy in fiimdom is not easily
'cd, yet China’s ‘ ‘Red Sorghum’*
in engaging family fable while
:ring one of the more tender
ices of recent memory,
ie film opens in the late 1920s
the storyteller explaining how
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andmother and grandfather met.
ale is now legendary in the north*
:ountryside, we are told. The
Ison never appears in the film,
arrates only when it’s completely
isary, never intruding on the story
peasant farmer sells his bcauti
oung daughter to a wealthy wine
cr, a reclusive man who is re
d to be a leper. The bride-to-be
rried in a sedan across the sa
a grasslands to be married. It’s a
journey on which she is taunted
ie sedan-carriers about her im
ing fate. The young woman (Gong
licknamed “Nine,” is reluctant,
iy the least She brings along a
of sheers, with thoughts of sui
. but doesn’t have the courage,
he goes through with the mar
J, but it’s obvious that she has
n in love with one of the sedan
ers (Jiang Wen).
/hen the disease-stricken wine
ter is mysteriously killed, Nine
fits the winery, which is now in
ine. She manages to revive busi
with the help of her workers, and
her lover, the sedan-carrier, we learn
later that he is the grandfather of the
narrator.
Wen is very likable as Nine’s lover.
Pudgy and lop-eared, he is not your
typical hero, but he is a man of strong
character. “Red Sorghum” plays out
much like a western, with the kind
loner working for the widowed plan
tation owner, but under the skillful
hand of director Zhang Yimou the
film flourishes in a very unconven
tional way. ., .
“Red Sorghum,“(named for the
com used to make the wine), took top
honors at the 1988 Berlin Film Festi
val, and it’s not hard to see why. It is
a seemingly effortless film by Yimou,
who asserts himself as an intelligent
director with this, his first outing.
The movie shifts gears radically
upon the Japanese invasion of the
northern countryside. Wen decides to
lead a resistance of sorts against the
barbarous Japanese army, who have
been murdering all peasants who
oppose them. These scenes are a
shocking departure from serene
atmosphere that has been established,
but they are no less effecuvc.
“Red Sorghum” may keep audi
ences away because of its rather ele
vated subject matter. But the best
moments in the film are those involv
ing Nine, her lover, and the workers
at the winery. These scenes keep the
movie light-hearted and accessible,
™nd make it one of the best foreign
flicks you’re likely U> see.
“Red Sorghum will play at 3,5,
7 and 9 p.m. Sunday at the Sheldon
Film Theater. 1
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Nebraskans dig up their fossils for
‘Sunday Afternoon with a Scientist
By Mutt Burton
Senior Reporter ,_
Dig up your bones.
“Bring the Skeletons Out of
Your Closet” is an event giving
people the chance to find out he
origins of old fossils.
The event, in its third year, is
part of the University of Nebraska
State Museum’s “Sunday After
noon with a Scientist” program.
“Nebraska is so rich in fossils
that people are picking up fossils
all the time. And sometimes they're
making very important discover
ies,” said Masy Liz jameson,
Outreach Coordinator for the pm
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Although most of the fossils
that will be identified are relatively
common, once in awhile a rare
discovery is made, according lo
Mike Voorhies, Curator of Verte
brate Paleontology.
‘‘A young man from Omaha
brought in a great big molar tooth
from what we call a short-faced
bear - extremely large. They’re
the largest bears that ever lived;
they weighed about a ton or so,”
he said, ne found this tooth over
near the Platte River and didn’t
know what it was. These things are
very rare, and it was very interest
ing.”
The process of identifying fos
sils is basically automatic, he said.
“It’s a process more of less the
way you would recognize your
friends. Everybody has some char
acteristics that we use to recognize
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man. Bones are me same way. j-»u
two species have the same shapes
of the bates exactly the same way,”
Voorhies said.
Last year 300 to 400 people
came to the program.
Six people will be working to
figure out the origins of people’s
fossils so there should not be a long
wait, Voorhies said.
Some of the morecommon fos
sils identified in the past have been
horses, bison, rtiinos and camels. .
Jameson anticipates another good
turnout 1 '
“The public clamors to get in
there and see what’s going on and
to identify their fossils,” she said.
The event is free and will be
from 2 to 4 p.m Sunday.