Calendar Thursday, May 30, 2024
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Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan Through September 15, 2024
Masterpieces from Japan’s Meiji era (1868–1912) reveal the profound cross-cultural impact of Japan’s developing relationships with the wider world.
30 Aug Fri / 2024
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Ken Mazzu, Coastal Prairie, Anahuac, 2024, oil on canvas, courtesy of the artist. © Ken Mazzu
Reception | “Ken Mazzu: Points of Interest”
5:30 p.m.—7:30 p.m.Celebrate the exhibition Ken Mazzu: Points of Interest, the first in a series highlighting the Junior School faculty at the Glassell School of Art.
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Nostalghia
7 p.m.—9 p.m.Newly restored in 4K from the original camera negative, this cult favorite is a mystical and mysterious collision of East and West, shot with the tactile beauty that only Tarkovsky can provide. Film critic J. Hoberman observed that “Nostalghia is not so much a movie as a place to inhabit for two hours.”