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2 Thursday
12:30 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection .
5:30 – 6:30 p . m . Dan Ramirez and Richard Shiff : A Conversation . Richard Shiff and artist Dan Ramirez engage in a public discussion of Ramirez ’ s work . Richard Shiff is Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin , where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism . Chazen Auditorium .
5 Sunday
Last day to view German Expressionist Prints : Barbara Kaerwer ’ s Legacy .
12:30 p . m . Sunday Afternoon Live at the Chazen : Pro Arte Quartet .
2 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour , docent ’ s choice .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque at the Chazen : The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar . What Have I Done to Deserve This ? ( Qu he hecho yo para merecer esto !), Spain , 1984 , 16mm , 101 min ., Spanish with English subtitles . Directed by Pedro Almodóvar , cast : Carmen Maura , Luis Hostalot , Ryu Hiroma . The great Maura stars as a pill-popping cleaning lady whose home life has spun hilariously out of control in characteristically Almodóvarian
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fashion . She ’ s crammed into a Madrid apartment with her dimly chauvinist husband and two dubiously entrepreneurial sons ( one ’ s selling drugs , the other ’ s selling his body ) under the scolding eye of her mother-in-law , with a prostitute and a telekinetic for neighbors . Add in her affair with an impotent cop and someone ’ s bound to be bumped off via a method nodding to Roald Dahl ’ s “ Lamb to the Slaughter .” Print courtesy of the Wisconsin Center for Film & Theater Research .
9 Thursday
12:30 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection .
5:30 – 6:30 p . m . Dan Ramirez : Brush Music , a lecture by Buzz Spector , Professor of Art , Washington University in St . Louis . Elvehjem Building , L160 .
12 Sunday
2 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour , docent ’ s choice .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque at the Chazen : The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar . Bad Education ( La Mala Educación ), Spain , 2006 , 35mm , 121 min ., Spanish with English subtitles . Directed by Pedro Almodóvar , cast : Gael García Bernal , Fele Martínez , Javier Cámara .
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Bernal stars in this ingenious labyrinth of nested stories , which takes Almodóvar ’ s longstanding fascination with shifting identities to its culmination . In 1980 Madrid , a prominent film director is visited by a former lover pitching a short story taken from their youthful fling at a Catholic boarding school . As the story is relayed , Almodóvar masterfully whisks us between multiple planes of reality , fiction , and stories-within-stories . When the author insists on playing the lead in the production , yet another level of secrets and betrayals comes spilling forth . “ A giddy cinematic pastiche of film noir and high camp , Bad Education is about the shape-shifting artifice of dreams and the experience of going to the movies . An embarrassment of riches ” ( Slant ).
16 Thursday
12:30 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent collection .
6:30 – 8 p . m . Preview reception for Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection . Live music , refreshments , cash bar . Mead Witter Lobby .
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17 Friday
Fantastic Illustration from the Korshak Collection opens to the public .
19 Sunday
2 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour , docent ’ s choice .
2 p . m . Sunday Cinematheque : The Cinema of Pedro Almodóvar . The Flower of My Secret ( La flor de mi secreto ), Spain , 1995 , 35mm , 103 min ., Spanish with English subtitles . Directed by Pedro Almodóvar , cast : Marisa Paredes , Juan Echanove , Rossy de Palma . Lovelorn romance novelist Leo ( Paredes ) sees her own marriage to a military officer disintegrate , along with her career . Leo longs to shake off her nom de plume and publish more serious work . Her chance comes via a newspaper editor , who unknowingly asks her to pen a scathing newspaper review of her alter ego ’ s latest bestseller . Like his protagonist , Almodóvar had reached a major turning point , shedding the camp comedy and murderous intrigue of his early work and giving himself over to full-blown melodrama . The repercussions were long-lasting — Almodóvar later mined two of this film ’ s minor subplots for portions of All About My Mother and Volver .
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23 Thursday
The museum is closed .
26 Sunday
Museum Store Sunday . A global celebration spotlighting the missionrelated products found at museum stores worldwide . Enjoy discounts in the store , free gift wrapping and light refreshments . Support the Chazen Museum of Art this holiday season and finish your holiday shopping early .
2 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour , docent ’ s choice .
30 Thursday
12:30 p . m . A docent leads a 40-minute tour in the permanent
collection .
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