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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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