Several new exhibits can be seen at the Indiana University Art Museum. The galleries are open Tuesday – Saturday, 10 am – 5 pm, and Sunday, 12 pm to 5 pm.

Paul Strand’s “Street People”
Continuing through May 5, 2013

Paul Strand’s revolutionary photographs, published in the final double-issue of Alfred Stieglitz’s Camera Work, shocked the art world not only with their unadulterated approach to the medium, but also with their gritty, realistic subject matter. This installation features three close-up portraits of some of the “invisible” beggars, hackers, and passersby found on New York City’s sidewalks.

“The Many Faces of a Master”
Continuing through May 5, 2013

Pablo Picasso (1888–1975) was not only one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century, but he was also one of the most recognizable. The IU Art Museum has a large collection of portraits of artists. This installation features several photographs of Picasso at work or play by Lucien Clerque, Robert Capa, and Brassaï.

Contemporary Explorations: Reviewing Nature in the 1980s
February 4‒May 19, 2013

Drawn from the museum’s collection of works by graduates of IU’s fine arts department (now the Hope School of Fine Arts), this installation examines the artists’ interpretations of the natural world. Reviewing Nature takes a look at the balance sought between structural composition and the role nature plays in co-defining the space we both share. This installation was organized by Emily Wood, graduate assistant for Western art after 1800 at the IU Art Museum.

New in the Galleries: Breaking the Gilded Ceiling, Women Artists of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
March 5-August 25, 2013

This installation will feature women artists—some former artist’s models, some wives and mothers, and some trailblazers—who worked in a variety of media. Included will be work by photographers Anna Atkins, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Laura Adams Armer, as well as prints and drawings by Mary Cassatt, Suzanne Valadon, Gwen John, and Käthe Kollwitz. Presented in conjunction with IU 2013 Women’s History Month.

Three Remarkable Women: Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun, Margaret Chinnery, and Félicité de Genlis
March 23-September 1, 2013

In honor of women’s history month, the IU Art Museum will premiere a focused exhibition featuring Vigée Le Brun’s Portrait of Mrs. Chinnery (1803) and selected materials from the Lilly library. The exhibition presents an unusually rich opportunity to use a single artwork as a lens for an interdisciplinary study of the history, politics, art, literature, and music of its time.

Featuring works of art by K–6 Monroe County students, selected and submitted by area art teachers.

Youth Art Month Opening Reception
Saturday, March 2, 1–2 pm
Thomas T. Solley Atrium, second floor

Featuring paintings, installations, and videos by Australian artist and activist Richard Bell, this exhibition explores Aboriginal identity and its place in mainstream society. Uz vs. Them is at once powerful, confrontational, ironic, and beautiful, drawing on traditions ranging from Aboriginal desert painting to American Pop art. Though Bell speaks as an Australian Aboriginal, his work raises broader issues and concerns related to cultural and ethnic identity worldwide. The exhibition was organized by the American Federation of Arts.

Recurring daily at the IU Art Museum, Tue – Sat, 10 am – 5 pm; Sun, 12 – 5 pm. Runs until May 5.

The Mathers Museum of World Cultures presents a new exhibit for the year 2013, “In The Kitchen Around The World”, which will be on display in addition to the already-installed exhibits from 2012. This exhibit will run until November 15, 2013.

“In The Kitchen Around The World”: an exhibit that presents objects used in preparing food and food service from different areas of the world. It breaks down into two categories: what the viewer perceives as familiar, such as plates, cups, and dishes, and what is unfamiliar, such as a Peruvian corn toaster and an Ecuadorian grater. The goal of the exhibit is to look at what other cultures have come up with as solutions to help them in cooking or eating food, allowing the viewer to make comparisons to the solutions that are similar or dissimilar to their own.

Other exhibits include:

“Picturing Archaeology”: Described in their words and illustrated by their images, the research and fieldwork of 13 Indiana University archaeologists is presented in Picturing Archaeology at the Mathers Museum of World Cultures/Glenn Black Laboratory of Archaeology.

“Rhythms of the World”: a free audioguide tour of musical instruments from around the globe featured in exhibits throughout the museum. The audioguide includes narration and musical clips of the highlighted instruments.

“Living Heritage: Performing Arts of Southeast Asia”
This exhibit highlights some of the performing arts in Southeast Asia, including artifacts of the manohra dance (from Thailand), Sudanese puppet theater from Indonesia, and folk music from Vietnam.

“TOYing with Ideas”
Toying with Ideas examines toys across cultures, as well as throughout decades of American history, to analyze and question how toys have come to influence social roles, gender roles, and early childhood identity.

“The Day in Its Color: A Hoosier Photographer’s Journey”
This exhibit presents a survey of Charles Cushman’s extraordinary work, an archive of photographs that is the largest known body of early color photographs by a single photographer, 14,500 in all, most shot on vivid, color-saturated Kodachrome stock. From 1938-1968, Cushman—a sometime businessman and amateur photographer with an uncanny eye for everyday detail—travelled constantly, shooting everything he encountered as he ventured from New York to New Orleans, Chicago to San Francisco, and everywhere in between. His photos include portraits, ethnographic studies, agricultural and industrial landscapes, movie sets and media events, children playing, laborers working, and thousands of street scenes, all precisely documented in time and place. The result is a chronicle of an era almost never seen, or even envisioned, in color.

“Thoughts, Things, and Theories…What Is Culture?”
Thoughts, Things, and Theories…What Is Culture? examines the nature of culture through the exploration of cultural traditions surrounding life stages and universal needs.

“From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: The Origins of Everything”
This exhibit examines history on a large scale, through the exploration of cosmic, biological, and human origins.

“Unfinished Business: One Hundred Years of Quilt Blocks”
An exhibit presenting elements from unfinished quilts will be presented in conjunction with the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show.

Museum is open Tuesdays through Fridays, from 9 am to 4:30 pm, and Saturdays and Sundays, from 1 to 4:30 pm. Check website to see all of the Mathers Museum’s exhibits.

This animal show at WonderLab features insects, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals! Have close encounters with a wide variety of live animals during this high energy science and conservation show presented by Indiana Wild. Seating is limited. Tickets will be available on a first-come, first-served basis the day of the program.

Two showings, at 1:30 and 3:30 pm.

Nan Brewer, the museum’s Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper, will present a pre-film gallery talk focused on Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s depictions of women performers in Paris’s fin de siècle cafés, cabarets, and dance halls, such as the famous Moulin Rouge.

The gallery talk will be followed by a screening of John Huston’s classic fictional film, Moulin Rouge (1952) about Toulouse-Lautrec’s life in bohemian Paris. This British drama stars Jose Ferrer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Christopher Lee and won the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival.
This program is presented in conjunction with IU Cinema’s “Films on Art” series and is sponsored by Marsha R. Bradford and Harold A. Dumes.

An electrifying and inspirational new rock musical about a suburban family fighting to get back to “normal.” Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and 3 Tony Awards, Next to Normal will rock your world.
“Brave, breathtaking… a feel everything musical!” – Ben Brantley, The New York Times
Age recommendation: suitable for 16 and up (contains some strong language and mature themes)

Music by Tom Kitt, Book and Lyrics by Brian Yorkey
Directed by Randy White

Run time: 2 hours and 20 minutes, including one intermission

Sponsored by Centerstone, a not-for-profit organization, has provided a wide range of mental health, substance use disorder, and integrated health services to Indiana residents for more than 50 years. Through more than 60 facilities in 17 Indiana counties, Centerstone serves more than 24,000 children, adolescents, adults and seniors each year. It is accredited by CARF International. For more information about Centerstone, please call 800-344-8802 or visit www.centerstone.org.

John Huston’s classic fictional film is a vigorous study of the celebrated and innovative artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. With Jose Ferrer as the artist, Huston successfully captures the atmosphere and bohemian life in Montmarte, full of colorful characters as seen through the sad and dejected eyes of Lautrec. The film won the Silver Lion at the 1953 Venice Film Festival. (35mm presentation)

Gallery Talk – Focus on Toulouse-Lautrec
Sunday, March 24, 2:00–2:45 pm
IU Art Museum – presented by Nan Brewer, The Lucienne M. Glaubinger Curator of Works on Paper.

Events are co-sponsored by the IU Art Museum and IU Cinema and are made possible through the generous support of Marsha Bradford and Harold Dumes. Special thanks to Natasha Ritsma and Nan Brewer.

Campus Superstar is a statewide vocal competition attracting vocalists from colleges and universities from across Indiana. Twenty- four of the best vocalists will be competing for their spot in the Top Ten at the Semi-Final Competition. Local celebrity judges will provide professional development, as well as decide who is moving on to the next round. Active audience participation is encouraged through the Audience Choice Award—the audience will choose one person to move through to the Final Competition. The Campus Superstar winner will be awarded a $5,000 cash prize to put toward education or jump-starting their music career. Admission is free, so come out and support your favorite vocalist!

Pickaxe documents the struggle to halt logging at Warner Creek, a federally protected forest in Oregon. Following a suspicious fire in 1991 that cleared the land, Congress suspended environmental regulations to allow logging in the area. Since arson was determined to be the cause of the fire, however, activists argued that logging at Warner Creek was illegal and should be resisted with radical direct action. What followed was an 11-month battle complete with a 79-day hunger strike and a remarkable blockade of a remote logging road. (Digital presentation)

From the historic Labor, Anti-War and Civil Rights Movements to the contemporary mass-resistance against austerity, globalization and climate change, both activists and academic historians have long understood the utility of direct action in times of struggle. This series aims to open more channels of examination, discussion, and critique of direct action within a university setting. The series is co-sponsored by IU’s International Studies Program, Departments of Criminal Justice and Labor Studies, and IU Cinema. Special thanks to Bradley Stroot.