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Exhibits

Posted on Jan 9, 2004

January 22 through March
14

Nott Memorial
Method & Metaphor,
selected works from the Seena and Arnold Davis Old Master Collection.

 

Through February
Arts Atrium Gallery
Exhibition of prints.

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Events

Posted on Jan 9, 2004

Friday, Jan. 9, through Monday, Jan. 12
8 & 10 p.m. –
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: School
of
Rock.

Friday, Jan. 9
6 p.m.
– Memorial Fieldhouse –
Union Invitational – Men's basketball – SUNY-Brockport vs. Clark University
7:30 p.m.
– Messa Rink at Achilles Center – Women's hockey vs. Clarkson.
8 p.m.
– Memorial Fieldhouse –
Union Invitational – Men's basketball – Union vs. Mass. College of Liberal Arts
10 p.m.
– Old Chapel – Rockin' Reggae Beach Party.

Saturday, Jan. 10
1 p.m.
– Memorial Fieldhouse – Union Invitational Men's basketball –
Consolation.
2 p.m. — Messa Rink at Achilles Center – Women's hockey vs. Clarkson.
3 p.m.
– Memorial Fieldhouse –
Union Invitational Men's basketball – Championship.
7 p.m.. – Messa Rink at Achilles Center – Men's hockey vs. Rensselaer (ECAC contest).

Tuesday, Jan. 13
6 p.m. – Memorial Fieldhouse –
Women's basketball vs. Skidmore (UCAA contest).
7:30 p.m.
Messa Rink at the Achilles Center – Women's hockey vs. Boston College.

8 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse –
Men's basketball vs. Skidmore (UCAA contest).

Wednesday, Jan. 14
10 p.m.
Old Chapel – Comedian
Jeff Burghart.

Wednesday, Jan. 15
7 to 9 p.m. – Humanities LoungePhilosophical Café will feature Bill Vitek of Clarkson University. His topic will be “Limits.”

Friday, Jan. 16, through Monday, Jan. 19
8 & 10 p.m. –
Reamer Campus Center Auditorium – Movie: Intolerable Cruelty.

Friday, Jan. 16
6 p.m.
– Memorial Fieldhouse –
Women's basketball vs. Clarkson (UCAA contest).
8 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse –
Men's basketball vs. Clarkson (UCAA contest).

Saturday, Jan. 17
1 p.m.
Alumni Gymnasium Pool
– Men's and women's swimming vs. Ithaca College.
2 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse –
Women's basketball vs. St. Lawrence (UCAA contest).

4 p.m.
Memorial Fieldhouse –
Men's basketball vs. St. Lawrence (UCAA contest).

8 p.m. – Memorial Chapel – Belcea String
Quartet. Free admission for Union students with ID.

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Old Masters show coming to Mandeville Gallery

Posted on Jan 9, 2004

Francesco Maffei's Annunciation,
oil on canvas, 17th century Italian

A
selection of Old Master paintings from the private collection of Seena and
Arnold Davis will be on exhibit through March 14 in the Mandeville
Gallery at the Nott Memorial.

The
exhibit is a rich, visually dazzling example of high medieval art that resounds
with passion and color.

Some
45 years ago, the Davises began collecting paintings for their home. In time,
they narrowed their focus to 16th-century European Old Masters and
earlier. Currently, their collection numbers approximately 250 paintings and
drawings.

The
Davis collection also represents a rich repository of art
history, academic research, and good old-fashioned detective work. The Davises spent countless hours tracing the “provenance,
origins and attributions” of each new acquisition. They plumbed the knowledge
of art historians and museum curators here and abroad and in that process,
built an impressive library of their own.

This
particular selection of works provides a unique view of the role and attitude
toward women in Renaissance and Baroque Europe (c. 1400 to 1700). A number of
small-scale works, intended for domestic display, portray the duality of woman
as virgin/seductress. This theme fairly dominates the religious art of the
time, especially with innumerable images of the Virgin Mary.

These
works also portrayed cautionary tales or morality guides of what vices to avoid
and what virtues to emulate. The symbolism is conveyed in images (white lilies,
red roses, etc.) and colors so even the illiterate could comprehend the
message. Such artwork was also designed to encourage prayer and meditation in
the home.

Conversely,
the female nude was associated with eroticism and created almost exclusively
for an elite audience of educated men, many in the upper ranks of the church
hierarchy. However, depiction of Christ's nudity symbolized his human
vulnerability.

For
more on the show, visit: http://www.union.edu/Gallery/Current.htm

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Belcea Quartet to perform Jan. 17

Posted on Jan 9, 2004

The Belcea String Quartet

The Belcea String Quartet
will be featured on Saturday, Jan. 17, at 8 p.m. in Memorial Chapel, the
next event in the College's chamber music series.

Members of the Belcea are Corina Belcea and Laura Samuel,
violins; Krzysztof Chorzelski, viola; and Alasdair Tait, cello.

The program will consist of Haydn – Op. 20, No. 2 in C; Thomas Adés – Arcadiana (1994); and Beethoven – Op. 59, No. 2 in E.

Though “young in years,” this British group
performs with “astonishing maturity in sound,” (The Independent, London) and is currently on its
North American debut tour.

Tickets are $20; half price for students; and free
for Union College students and employees with college ID.

Tickets are available at the
College Facilities Services Building (7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays. Call ext. 6098.)

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Wanted: films and hosts for 12 Windows series

Posted on Jan 9, 2004

Organizers of the “12 Windows”
international film series seek faculty members willing to host films.

“It is a wonderful opportunity to
expose the campus community to independent international films of significance,”
said Anupama Jain, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professor of
English.

Faculty are asked to suggest a
film, perhaps one showing as part of a class, and moderate a discussion before
or after the screening.

All films are on Thursdays at 7 p.m. in Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.

For more information or to suggest
a film, contact Doug Reilly of the Partnership for Global Education between Union
and Hobart and William
Smith at dreilly@hws.edu.

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