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January 21, 2010

Also on exhibit

The Akron Art Museum will feature around 25 color photographs from Patrick Nagatani's Nuclear Enchantment through Feb. 14. All the works are recent additions to the Akron Art Museum collection.

Nagatani's photographs, while based on exhaustive factual research, are fiction. Photographing at atomic test sites, the locations of nuclear accidents and radioactive waste dumps, he changes these everyday places into the landscapes of dreams and sometimes nightmares. Avoiding the use of a computer, Nagatani's processes instead resemble the special effect techniques of early science fiction films. He stages his scenes in front of the camera, often shooting elaborate combinations of props, posed models and cut-out images in front of actual places. The planes shown in Nuclear Enchantment are mostly model planes from his own collection, which he built from kits. Nagatani's acidic hues are the result of hand coloring and of altering color balances during printing.

Coming up

Pattern ID will open at the Akron Art Museum Jan. 23 and will be on exhibit through May 9.

The exhibit includes painting, sculpture, photography, mixed media and video.

Pattern ID-related Events

"Show Your Pattern ID" Preview Party

Jan. 22, 8 to 10 p.m.

Are you paisley and plaid? Stripes and floral? Splashes of color and bling? Or perhaps you even have multi-cultural influences? Put it all together for the "Show Your Pattern ID" Preview Party. Prizes will be awarded throughout the evening and a live DJ will be featured. Other highlights include dancing, appetizers and a cash bar. Free for museum members, $6 for Western Reserve PBS members, $10 for non-members.

Group Tours: Pattern IDentity Crisis

The museum education department is offering a special adult tour program called Pattern IDentity Crisis to Kiwanis clubs, seniors, ladies who lunch, college students and any other group who wants to participate in an interactive tour experience. Call 330-376-9186, ext. 229 to book a tour.

Third Thursday concert

The Walkies & Fast Molasses and the Flavored Blacks

Jan. 21, 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Enjoy an evening of country-bluegrass-blues infused rock 'n' roll. The Walkies combine disparate influences of Earl Scruggs and the Feelies. Fast Molasses and the Flavored Blacks incorporate howls and harmonicas along with guitars and maracas. Just as the evening's bands reflect a mish-mash of different styles, stop by ARTLab to create Pattern ID badge, inspired by the soon to open exhibition. This event is free and features a cash bar.

Film Screening

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes

Feb. 25 7 p.m.

Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium

Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes, an official selection of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, is an examination of representations of manhood in hip-hop culture. It features interviews with hip-hop moguls and rap superstars such as Russell Simons, Mos Def, Chuck D and Busta Rhymes. Seating for this free screening is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Willie Cole Lecture

April 15, 6 p.m.

Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium

Emerging onto the contemporary art scene in the early 90s with a series of extraordinary "scorch paintings," Willie Cole has established himself as a major contemporary artist working in the tradition of the found object. The scorch paintings reference African tribal markings, domestic labor and personal family history, and have resembled masks, slave ships and flowers. Cole's sculptures built from recycled objects such as high-heel shoes, hair dryers and bicycle parts similarly reference a broad range of cultural practices, particularly African art traditions. His work is also featured in the MOCA Cleveland exhibition From Then to Now: Masterworks of African-American Art. Seating for this free lecture is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Nyong'o Lecture

April 29, 6 p.m.

Charles and Jane Lehner Auditorium

Tavia Nyong'o, associate professor of Performance Studies at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts will lecture on the intersections of race and sexuality, visual art and performance as they pertain to the artwork in Pattern ID. This lecture is free with first-come, first-serve seating available.




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