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1 Thursday
12 – 2 p . m . Ask Me docents will be available to answer questions about exhibitions and the permanent collection . Free . Throughout the galleries .
12:30 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
7 p . m . Tour Ancestral Modern : Australian Aboriginal Art from the Kaplan & Levi Collection in the Rowland Galleries , then see Walkabout in the Chazen Auditorium . Australia , 1971 , 35mm , 95 min . Director : Nicolas Roeg , cast : Jenny Agutter , David Gulpilil , Lucien John . When white siblings find themselves lost in the Australian outback , a young Aborigine ( The Tracker ’ s David Gulpilil ) offers them aid . Roeg ’ s first solo outing as a director casts a hypnotic spell over its audience as it explores resonant themes of nature vs . civilization , and the disorienting , but ultimately beneficial , intersection of two vastly different cultures .
4 Sunday
Last day to view Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection
12:30 p . m . Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen . Brittingham Gallery III
2 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Reinventing Hollywood . Unfaithfully Yours , USA , 1948 ,
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35mm , 105 min . Director : Preston Sturges , cast : Rex Harrison , Linda Darnell , Rudy Vallee . Harrison is as paranoiac conductor Sir Alfred de Carter , suspicious of his wife ’ s ( Darnell ) fidelity to the brink of hysteria . His jealousy fueled by the music of Rossini , Tchaikovsky , and Wagner , Sir Alfred plots revenge in increasingly deranged fantasies , only to find his protracted attempt at retribution foiled in a hilariously extended bout with technology .
8 Thursday
12 – 2 p . m . Ask Me docents will be available to answer questions about exhibitions and the permanent collection . Free . Throughout the galleries .
12:30 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
9 Friday
Art History Curatorial Studies exhibition opens to the public .
12 – 2 p . m . Ask Me docents will be available to answer questions about exhibitions and the permanent collection . Free . Throughout the galleries .
10 Saturday
12 – 2 p . m . Art • Spin ! Learn more about the arts of Australia as we experiment with painting on rocks , bark , and other materials to create colorful works of art inspired by Indigenous traditions . Mead-Witter Lobby .
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11 Sunday
2 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Reinventing Hollywood . Five Graves to Cairo , USA , 1943 , 35mm , 96 min . Director : Billy Wilder , cast : Franchot Tone , Anne Baxter , Erich von Stroheim . Wilder ’ s second feature as director is a witty and suspenseful wartime thriller about a British officer Bramble ( Tone ), the only survivor of a desert tank attack in North Africa . Determined to carry out the not-small task of killing Nazi General Rommel ( von Stroheim ), Bramble assumes the identity of a dead waiter before realizing that the waiter was a German agent !
15 Thursday
12 – 2 p . m . Ask Me docents will be available to answer questions about exhibitions and the permanent collection . Free . Throughout the galleries .
12:30 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
6 – 7:30 p . m . Spring Dreaming — Stories for Didjeridu & Percussion . An Evening with Stephen Kent . A globally acclaimed player of the didjeridu , Stephen Kent has pioneered the use of the ancient Aboriginal instrument in contemporary music across the globe . Chazen Auditorium .
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16 Friday
12 – 2 p . m . Ask Me docents will be available to answer questions about exhibitions and the permanent collection . Free . Throughout the galleries .
18 Sunday
2 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Reinventing Hollywood . Sorry , Wrong Number , USA , 1948 , 35mm , 89 min . Director : Anatole Litvak , cast : Barbara Stanwyck , Burt Lancaster , Wendell Corey . Isolated and bedridden with a number of psychosomatic ailments , Leona ( Stanwyck ) is increasingly driven to hysteria after she hears the plans for her impending murder over the phone . This memorable adaptation of Lucille Fletcher ’ s oft-produced radio play imaginatively creates complex backstories for both Leona and her ambitious , duplicitous husband Henry ( Lancaster ). Sorry Wrong Number ’ s “ flashbacks provide an exemplary case of 1940s character shading ” ( David Bordwell ).
22 Thursday
12 – 2 p . m . Ask Me docents will be available to answer questions about exhibitions and the permanent collection . Free . Throughout the galleries .
12:30 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
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23 Friday
The Tile Club : Camaraderie and and American Plein-Air Painting opens to the public .
12 – 2 p . m . Ask Me docents will be available to answer questions about exhibitions and the permanent collection . Free . Throughout the galleries .
25 Sunday
2 p . m . Free , 40-minute tour led by a Chazen docent . Mead Witter Lobby .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : Reinventing Hollywood . The Guilt of Janet Ames , USA , 1947 , 35mm , 83 min . Director : Henry Levin , cast : Rosalind Russell , Melvyn Douglas , Sid Caesar . The widowed and guiltridden Janet ( Russell ) sets out to meet the fellow platoon members of her late husband , who threw himself on a grenade to save his comrades ’ lives . Struck by a car and overcome with hysterical paralysis , Janet is visited in the hospital by one of the men ( Douglas ) who tells her about his fellow soldiers through a series of “ vivid word pictures .” Dream therapy , shared visions , and Caesar ’ s spoof of Freudian analysis are just a few of the many wacky ingredients in this fascinating melodrama / love story , the sort of which “ typify an era that encouraged risky storytelling choices ” ( David Bordwell ).
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