‘Tom Notebook’ takes to Sheldon
By Alexis Thomas
A&E Editor
One of this year’s much-anticipated
additions totheSheldon Memorial Art
Gallery, “Tom Notebook,” will be un
veiled Sept. 6 and is expected to be
one of UNL’s main attractions this fall.
After three years and close to a mil
lion dollars, designers Claes
Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
will unveil the 22-foot-high sculpture,
which resembles a school notebook
with pages scattering in the wind.
“The team of artists is internation
ally famous and known for redefining
public monuments in pop art,” said
George Neubert, director of the
Sheldon.
Neubert said the Sheldon’s mission
is to bring to UNL some of the finest
works of art that are being produced
by American artists today.
The Sheldon, at 12th and R streets,
is paid for entirely by private dollars
and is free to students. Neubert rec
ommended the Sheldon as a great
place to take a date.
“The gallery is one of those abso
lutely incredible resources that is
available and one of the best cheap
dates,” Neubert said. “What can be
better than standing in front of a work
of art and asking the other person what
they see?”
Neubert said that while some stu
dents consider the gallery a place to
go for classwork, lots of students visit
for many other reasons—and not all
those students are art majors.
Beginning Sept. 10 and ending
Nov. 24, “Human Form: The Photo
graphed Nude,” should be an interest
ing combination of photography and
the human body, and would coordi
nate nicely with Neubert’s date rec
ommendation.
From Eadweard Muybridge, a tum
of-the-century photographer, to Rob
ert Mapplethorpe, a controversial con
temporary photographer, the histori
cal relationship between the nude body
and photography will be explored.
Another noteworthy exhibit, “Eu
ropean Master Sculptors,” will feature
«
The team of artists
is internationally
famous.”
George Neubert
Sheldon director
modernistic sculptors such as Auguste
Rodin, Constantin Brancusi, Pablo
Picasso and Barbara Hepworth from
Nov. 29 through Feb. 9.
Just in time for the new semester,
“Princess X,” one of the gallery’s best
known and most valuable sculptures,
will return to the Sheldon.
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