Is it magic or is it science? Have great fun exploring the surprising tricks mirrors can play on your brain! This special hands-on exhibition for people of all ages is on display at WonderLab (Tuesday – Sunday) through April 13.

Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

Special Exhibition: ‘Faculty Artists from IU’s Hope School of Fine Arts’
January 25–March 9, 2014 Special Exhibitions Gallery and Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor Featuring ca. forty artists (both current and emeriti faculty) from IU’s renowned Hope School of Fine Art, this exhibition offers a survey of recent works in a wide range of media, including ceramics, digital art, graphic design, painting, sculpture, metals, photography, printmaking, and textiles.

Focalpoint: Personal Objects: Art from Eastern and Southern Africa
January 14–May 11, 2014 Raymond and Laura Wielgus Gallery of the Arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas, Focalpoint, third floor From jewelry and headdresses to household objects such as containers, headrests, and spoons, the art of eastern and southern Africa for the most part is intimately connected with the individual. Though these regions of Africa do not have the large numbers of masks and figural sculpture for which western and central Africa are known, the personal objects found there frequently reflect the deep cultural significances and attention to form and detail seen elsewhere on the continent. This installation has been organized to coincide with the A352/A552, Art of Eastern and Southern Africa, a course being taught during the spring 2014 semester in the Department of the History of Art.

New in the Galleries: ‘Max Beckmann’s Woodcuts’
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
February 4–June 22, 2014
Although the German Expressionist artist Max Beckmann was a prolific graphic artist (producing 374 prints during his lifetime), he created fewer than 20 woodcuts. Most were produced during the 1920s, when Germany was experiencing a revival of interest in the medium. Seven prints from this period will be featured in this installation.

On Friday, February 21st, at 6:00p.m. The Venue Fine Art & Gifts will open a new show of oil paintings by featured artist, Juliet Shapiro, entitled “Internal Landscapes”.

Juliet is originally from Boulder Colorado. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art, and has studied art both here and in Argentina. She is a fresh face in the Bloomington Art Community, this being her first Solo Show.

Juliet’s paintings are colorful, dynamic, and abstract, but with some figurative elements. They depict landscapes that only exist in the mind of the Artist. They refresh.

Our fine selection of paintings, jewelry, ceramics, and artistic gifts, will also be on display for purchase. Light refreshments will be served. Free parking is available in the lot at 4th and Grant streets. Join us!

This show will run at The Venue Fine Art & Gifts through March 6th

Would you like some support in planning your 2014 garden?

This workshop is for those that would like to create, adapt, or extend a garden this year using permaculture design and accompanying technique to establish a regenerative, healthy garden that produces beauty, food, and much, much more. We will look at basic permaculture patterning that can be applied to conserve water, build soil, and integrate natural pest management–meaning less work for you, healthier plants, and ultimately a happier you!

Sunday, February 23, 2:00–2:30 p.m.
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
Adelheid M. Gealt, the museum’s director and curator of Western art before 1800, will present a pre-screening talk on a selection of prints by Rembrandt van Rijn.

Rembrandt
Sunday, February 23, 3:00–4:30 p.m.
IU Cinema
The gallery talk will be followed by a screening of Alexander Korda’s 1936 biographical film Rembrandt, featuring Charles Laughton as the Dutch master and his wife Elsa Lanchester as his late-in-life lover and maid Hendrickje Stoffels. (British, 85 min., not rated)

This program is presented in conjunction with IU Cinema and is sponsored by Marsha R. Bradford and Harold A. Dumes. The talk and films are free and open to the public.

The Ryder presents a series of Oscar-nominated short films, to be shown at various Bloomington venues from February 21 until March 2.

Short films, like short stories, are often overlooked. The best short subjects have all of the power, scope and resonance of a feature-length film. We are screening the best of the best: 3 programs (one devoted to animation, one to live-action and the third to documentaries) featuring all 15 Oscar nominees. This is your chance to see the films before the Awards show

Each program will be shown on campus at Fine Arts, Woodburn Hall, as well as at Bear’s Place and the Back Door. At these venues, each program is $5 but for $10 you can buy an Oscar Pass admitting you to all three programs (on different nights, on different weekends). The programs are not rated but if they were, the Animation program would be rated PG – one of the animated films is a bit dark, but certainly no darker than the average superhero movie. It’s kid-friendly for most kids. And there are Saturday matinees for the Animation program.

See website for the full program of short films.

Rembrandt
Sunday, February 23, 3:00–4:30 p.m.
IU Cinema
The gallery talk will be followed by a screening of Alexander Korda’s 1936 biographical film Rembrandt, featuring Charles Laughton as the Dutch master and his wife Elsa Lanchester as his late-in-life lover and maid Hendrickje Stoffels. (British, 85 min., not rated)

This program is presented in conjunction with IU Cinema and is sponsored by Marsha R. Bradford and Harold A. Dumes. The talk and films are free and open to the public.

Rembrandt in Focus
Sunday, February 23, 2:00–2:30 p.m.
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor
Adelheid M. Gealt, the museum’s director and curator of Western art before 1800, will present a pre-screening talk on a selection of prints by Rembrandt van Rijn.

Join the Bloomington Symphony Orchestra and the Hoosier Youth Philharmonic in a rootin’ tootin’ wild west show featuring music from Aaron Copland’s Rodeo plus Rogers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!

Special guest Gabe Bruner, winner of our 2014 Youth Concerto Competition, will perform Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto in G minor, opus 25

Korda’s early British biopic, starring Charles Laughton as the Dutch master and his wife Elsa Lanchester as his late-in-life lover and maid Hendrickje Stoffels, traces the story of Rembrandt van Rijn’s life from the death of his beloved wife Saskia through the end of his career. (35mm presentation)

Gallery Talk
Rembrandt in Focus
Feb. 23 – Sun. – 2:00-2:30 p.m.
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, first floor. Heidi Gealt, IU Art Museum director and curator of Western art before 1800, will present a talk on a selection of prints by Rembrandt van Rijn.

The programs are presented in partnership between the IU Art Museum and IU Cinema and are sponsored by Marsha R. Bradford and Harold A. Dumes. The talks and films are free and open to the public.

Almayer’s Folly (2011) Chantal Akerman adapts Joseph Conrad’s debut novel concerning a Dutch trader living in Malaysia, transplanting the story from the 1890s to the 1950s. This brings the weight of another 50 years of colonialism and foreign intervention to bear on Conrad’s tale, a story of cultural conflict, desire, and despair. Having married the adopted Malay in order to obtain an inheritance that has failed to materialize, Almayer has become isolated and bitter, investing all his emotional energy in his own beloved daughter, Nina. Haunted by feelings of racial alienation and harboring hatred towards her father, Nina has no intention of providing him with comfort or companionship. In French, English, and Khmer languages with English subtitles. (35mm presentation)