This week, Karin Campbell starts her post as the Phil Willson Curator of Contemporary Art at Joslyn Art Museum, the first time someone has held the post since 2004. Campbell, the first Non-Spanish curator to hold this post, most recently worked as an independent curator for ESPAI 13 in Barcelona showcasing international emerging artists. She […]
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Events like Elevate make Omaha great.
Events like Elevate make Omaha great. Held on the 36th street bridge, over looking the 1-80 corridor within sight of the newly designed grain elevators whose theme this year was based on transportation, Elevate was the collaboration of chef, designer and farmer whom together designed a communal space paired it with an artistic menu that […]
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Two Names Pop Up in Drama Week
Oddly, very oddly, the two names that pop out at me after a week full of theatrical drama are a complete surprise. One came from the Great Plains Theatre Conference, with its abundance of great moments. After a rough Sunday night at the Burlington Depot, when awful acoustics in the four-story atrium undermined the opening […]
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LFF mom-art panel…Bemis art talk and new residents…MAM shows…
June 7, Les Femmes Folles (Full Disclosure: I am producer of this event) and momaha.com present: The Act of Creation: A Mom-Artist Panel/Exhibit/Performance with artists Julian Adair (dance/photography), Megan Hunt (fashion design), Sarah McKinstry-Brown (poet), Rachel Mindrup (visual art), Jamie Pressnall (music), Kim Reid Kuhn (visual art), Ellen Struve (theatre) and Michelle Troxclair (spoken word), […]
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A Paler Shade of White
A once-beautiful woman who has an uncomfortable relationship with her brother is disintegrating into a skeletal hag. But enough about Angelina Jolie. Snow White and the Huntsman features Charlize Theron rising above her Helen-of-Troy beauty to once more deliver a wicked performance that proves there’s more going on under her hood than atop her perfect […]
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Sacre Blue
For a film that starts with an innocent schoolchild finding his teacher dangling from the classroom rafters by a scarf-turned-noose tied around her neck, Monsieur Lahzar is surprisingly upbeat. And not just for sickos who find schoolteacher suicide to be a great punch-line. This Canadian nominee for Best Foreign Film at last year’s Oscars is […]
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Cutting Room for June 1
Film Streams (filmstreams.org) is going a long way for a play on words here, but they’ve earned it. Leading up to their fifth anniversary on July 27, a momentous occasion that makes me feel older than my desire to eat dinner at 4:30, the theater is celebrating for the next nine weeks, culminating with Jane […]
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Movieha! – Omaha’s favorite movie podcast
Hello lovelies, It’s time once more for your weekly indulgence, as we have birthed another Movieha for you to pop in your ears. This week we hunger for blood and ice cream, ponder Harrison Ford’s replication, look into some Holy Motors, don’t hate Men in Black 3, take a dip with Submarine, and drop some […]
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Blitzing for Bruno
Yoda called it the Force. The Kalahari ¡Kung call it num. The Chinese term is chi. Continentals and readers of Nobel Laureate Henri Bergson would call it élan vital. In Japanese, it’s ki; Sanskrit, prana; in Hawaiian, mana. Einstein could have called it the unified field. And in his lectures, Bruno Gröning called it “the […]
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Pick: Bemis $100 Art Sale
June 8 $100 Art Sale bemisUNDERGROUND, 724 S. 12th St. 7-9pm, $10 bemiscenter.org, 341.7130 Over 170 original pieces of art were donated by artists for BemisUNDERGROUND’s annual $100 Art Sale. As the title precludes, every single piece of art is a steal at just $100. The artists and images of the work are a secret […]