Susan Kane, Professor of Classical Archaeology at Oberlin, has been invited to attend meetings in Tripoli the week of October 25th to advise the Libyan government about substantial investments that are being proposed for the five UNESCO World Heritage sites in Libya. Susan Kane has worked on many archaeological excavations in Libya including the “Terracotta Army”; found during excavation of Greek and Roman ruins of Shahhat in Libya.
Monthly Archives: October 2009
All You Can Eat Cleveland
“All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Architectural Ideas for Cleveland” is an exhibition at the Cleveland Sculpture Center which will be accompanied by a panel discussion by Cleveland-area architects, designers and researchers. “All You Can Eat” will focus on new ideas for the use of vacant lots in the Cleveland Area. The show’s organizers hope that the exhibition and surrounding events will generate interest and motivation towards not just building, but creating a forum for how to better use these spaces.
The show opens this Friday the 30th from 5-10 with an actual buffet of delicious food and music. There will also be a second event on Saturday from noon to 5pm with a panel discussion starting at 3. The panel discussion includes Oberlin’s own Luce Visiting Professor of Emerging Media Julia Christiansen. The panel moderator is the designer, critic and “All You Can Eat” organizer Michael Abrahamson. You can find out more about the exhibition here.
New resource for Oberlin goings-on
Heads up, Obies: a former Oberlin student who is now living in Oberlin has started up a new website to help college students and Oberlin residents know what is going on all the time, all over campus and all over town. On the site you can view and submit to an events calendar, find out the weather, check out discounts and deals from Oberlin businesses and also view a user-submitted picture of the day. Tom Geller, the site’s inventor and manager wants to have a single resource that will better inform Oberlin’s full- and part-time residents of what’s happenin’ ’round these parts.
Eccentric Visions: the Worlds of Luo Ping (1733-1799)
“Eccentric Visions” just opened at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and was team-curated by Oberlin Visiting Professor of East Asian Art Michele Matteini along with Kim Karlsson and Alfreda Murck. The show focuses on two Qing Dynasty painters, Luo Ping and his mentor Jin Nong. Luo Ping is an important and remarkable painter of this time period because of his original portraits, ‘ghost’ paintings made for his mentor as well as his paintings of the fantastical beings he claimed to see everyday. Although Luo and Jin’s work are very different from each other, Luo was respected for his skill as a copyist as well as for his own unique work. Many of the works included in the show are on loan from the Palace Museum in Beijing and the Shanghai Art Museum and have never been shown in the US before. The show was given an extremely positive review by the New York Times; you can read the article here.
The show will be open until January 10th. You can look at the Met’s site directly here.
Paper in Motion
The Morgan Conservatory and Art of Papermaking is having an opening reception for their new show “Paper in Motion”. The show, which opens October 10th, includes the work of Oberlin Director of Cinema Studies Rian Brown-Orso as well as Nancy Baker Cahill of Los Angeles and Nina Sarnelle of Cleveland and Pittsburgh. The three artists collectively explore notions of “destruction and creation” and “violence and healing”. The artists work in varied mediums, including collage, video, painting and installation. Rian Brown-Orso’s new work, Circular Motion which draws inspiration from Eduard Muybridge’s studies of the human body as well as prehistoric cave paintings. Her work uses spinning discs, paintings, back-lit illuminated collages and video projection to translate the language of cinema and motion. The reception is Friday, October 16th from 6-9pm at Morgan Conservatory 1754 E. 47th Street, Cleveland. The show runs from Oct. 10th to Nov. 28th. www.morganconservatory.org
