February 2012
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02/21/12Visiting Artist Coming to the PowerhouseNew York-based multimedia artist Rashaad Newsome brings his exhibition — the video installation Swag — to the Bluff City March 1st through the 3rd. It's the first in the Crosstown Arts' Visiting Artist Series, which is sponsored by VO2 Networx. The exhibition kicks off with an opening reception and lecture, free and open to the public, at 6 p.m. on March 1st, at the Powerhouse, located at 45 G.E. Patterson. Newsome will also lead an open critique/discussion of select work by students at the University of Memphis and Memphis College of Art. In the videos, the artist takes hip-hop and pop advertising imagery and wraps them in a neo-Baroque style, rich in ornament and heraldry. The original music in Swag is produced by Newsome and such visual and... |
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02/13/12Hospitals Team Up for Organ DonorsIf you really want to give some love on Valentine's Day, you can take part in the Show Me Your Heart campaign. Five area hospitals are asking people to "show their heart" as registered organ and tissue donors by displaying their driver's license designating themselves as donors — or by signing up that day. Participating hospitals are Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis, Methodist University, LeBonheur Children's Hospital, Saint Francis-Memphis, and the Regional Medical Center. Each will have booths set up in their lobby or cafeteria from 6 a.m.-8 a.m., 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and 6 p.m.-8 p.m. The hospital with the most registered donors will receive a trophy from the Mid-South Transplan Foundation. Donated organs save thousands of lives each year. For... |
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02/09/12See Oscar-Nominated Films at Memphis Brooks Museum of ArtYes, we know the Memphis Tigers take on UAB Saturday night, and we'll all be primed for the game. But that afternoon, February 11th, you can have some artsy fun. Head to Memphis Brooks Museum of Art at 2 p.m. to see the Oscar Nominated Short Films in the Animation category. After all, the 2012 Academy Awards are just around the corner, so you'll want to be in the know about some possible winners. The screening will include Sunday/Dimanche, The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore, La Luna, A Morning Stroll, and Wild Life. The following Saturday, February 18th, the Brooks will offer a screening of Live Action Shorts nominees. Also this Saturday, starting at 11 a.m., kids of any age can do some creating of their own. Creation Station lets... |
