Indy's Continuing Exhibits, Shows, Plays, Concerts, etc., with International Themes


Online

  • "Bellini: Creating & Re-Creating". Indianapolis Museum of Art online exhibit on the Venetian artist.
  • "Cycles: African Life Through Art". Indianapolis Museum of Art online exhibit.
  • "In the Garden of Antiquities: Views of Chinese Art" (click on icon for program). Indianapolis Museum of Art online exhibit.

    • Ongoing

  • African Galleries, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
  • Native Art of the Americas, Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • South Pacific Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art.
  • Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 500 West Washington Street, Indianapolis.
  • "Talking Shoes." Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington. Information, email or 812:855-6873. "Shoes from around the world are featured in 'Talking Shoes'. The exhibit, geared for young children, explores how shoes can reveal much about their makers and wearers. Native American beaded moccasins, sandals from the Republic of Congo, felt shoes from Tibet, and wooden shoes from the Netherlands and Surinam are just a few highlighted artifacts in the exhibit, which features some hands-on activities for younger visitors. The exhibit was developed by students in Anthropology A403/Introduction to Museum Studies during Spring Semester 2004-2005. The students worked with staff at the Mathers Museum to select shoes from the Museum's collections, research and write the exhibit labels, prepare the artifacts for display, design the case lay-outs, and install the exhibit."
  • "Thoughts, Things, and Theories...What Is Culture?" Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington. Information, email or 812:855-6873. "The meaning of culture and cultural traditions is explored in a new exhibit. Thoughts, Things, and Theories...What Is Culture? uses objects from around the world to show the way culture permeates all human lives. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the exhibit focuses on two main themes: universal needs and life stages. Universal needs (food, clothing, and shelter, for example) are demonstrated in replicas of two households-one a Bloomington ranch house from 1967, the other a multi-generational family compound from northern Nigeria in the same year. Visitors can then move into an area of the exhibit with artifacts illustrating life stages (from birth and infancy to death and the afterlife), with a Lakota cradleboard, Japanese wedding kimono, and numerous other artifacts from around the globe. The exhibit also features a hands-on activity station, computer kiosks with interactive programs, and a reading area."
  • "Early Indiana, American, European and Russian Impressionism". 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Free. Eckert & Ross Fine Art, 5627 North Illinois Street, Indianapolis. Information, 317:255-4561.


    • Through 28 October 2006

  • Exhibit of work by Emil Polit. Masterpiece Gallery, Clearwater Village, 4647 East 82d Street, Indianapolis. "Emil Polit was born on October 11, 1940 in a small village of Zmyslowka, Poland. Emil's passion for art brought him from his family farm to the Jaroslaw Fine Arts Preparatory Academy. Later, he entered Poland's oldest and most renowned school of art - the Krakow Fine Arts Academy. With a Master of Fine Arts degree obtained under the supervision of Professor Waclaw Taranczewski, Emil graduated from the department of painting and lithography in 1965. Throughout his career, Emil has actively participated in regional, national and international art exhibits and has received some of the most prestigious awards. From 1989 through 1991, Emil was the director of the Rzeszow chapter of the Polish Professional Artists' Association. The Rzeszow Heritage Award was presented to him in 1996 for his unique and sizeable contributions to shaping and developing the region's art environment through his painting. The 2003 National Art Educator award was presented to him for his contributions to art education in Poland. Emil Polit has attracted many prominent art collectors over the years. His paintings can be found in Poland, USA, the Vatican, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria and Canada."

    • Through 11 November

  • "Autumn Celebration featuring Bonsai." White River Gardens, White River State Park, downtown Indianapolis. "Don't miss the beautiful colors of autumn in White River Gardens featuring the annual spectacular display of (Japanese-style) bonsai specimens from the Indianapolis Bonsai Club. You can purchase your own bonsai plant at a special sale on September 23 & 24 (no admission charae), plus stay at 1 p.m. for a bonsai chat! The bonsai exhibit is included with regular Gardens admission."

    • Through 12 November 2006

  • "Native American Art from the Northwest Coast." Included in museum admission. Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, 500 West Washington Street, Indianapolis.

    • Through 26 November 2006

  • "Rembrandt: Face to Face." Included in museum admission. Alliance Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis. "This year marks the 400th anniversary of the birth of the Dutch artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606�69), and many institutions are taking the opportunity to showcase their Rembrandt holdings. One of the best-loved paintings in the Clowes Collection, on loan to the Indianapolis Museum of Art, is an early self-portrait by the artist. Painted when the he was about 23 years old, the Clowes self-portrait already displays some of the hallmarks of Rembrandt's inventive style: experimental technique, evocative use of light and shadow, brilliant manipulation of brushwork, a penchant for self-portraiture, and a fascination with the human face and the inner psychology it reveals. By pairing the Clowes painting with a selection of self-portrait etchings by the artist, this exhibition captures the genius of Rembrandt's technique as he matures from edgy youngster to confident entrepreneur. These comparisons take us into the world of the studio, where Rembrandt served as painter, draughtsman, and etcher, but also teacher, model and merchant."

    • Through 26 November 2006

  • "Annual El Dia de los Muertos Celebration and Altar Exhibition, Della Nohl Day of the Dead photo series, Woodcuts by Chicago artist Carlos Carter, Oaxaca Figures from local collection. Indianapolis Art Center, 820 East 67th Street, Indianapolis. Information, 317:255-2464. "Each year the Outreach Department works closely with community groups, individuals and local artists to bring this annual event and exhibition to life. 'Day of the Dead' is a celebration of the lives of the deceased, the altars and shrines maintain and continue another form of oral history. Many free workshops add dimension and help promote community awareness and involvement in this (Mexican-American) celebration."

    • Through 26 November 2006

  • "A Voice Silenced: Photographic installation by Dianne Neumaier." Indianapolis Art Center, 820 East 67th Street, Indianapolis. Information, 317:255-2464. "A Voice Silenced commemorates the life of Viennese-born Leonore Schwarz Neumaier, well-known opera singer and one of the victims of the Holocaust. A Voice Silenced by American-born granddaughte Diane Neumaier was produced in collaboration with her father, Dr. John Neumaier, the son of Lenore Neumaier. Both exibitions are composed of historic family photos and opera meorbilia along with the recorded voice of Leonora. Two exhibitions and several lectures will be presented in collaboration between the Indianapolis Art Center and the Jewish Community Center. Diane Neumaier and Dr. John Neumaier will be guest speakers."

    • Through 2 December 2006

  • "Japan-in-America." Mathers Museum of World Cultures, 416 North Indiana Avenue, Bloomington. Information, email or 812:855-6873. "This exhibit samples the vast number of images, stories, performances, and accounts of Japan that circulated in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century. At no time has the interest in and significance of Japan for Americans been greater than between 1890-1913, a rich and complex historical period for both nations. Marked by the emergence of broadly available media (including motion pictures and mass-circulation magazines), the early twentieth century was also a time when the United States expanded into the Pacific and became increasingly aware of Japan's modernization and its new geopolitical role, particularly after its victories in the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War. It is, in fact, difficult to overestimate how Japan's military successes, rapid modernization, and emergence as a global power captivated and troubled the imagination of Americans. At the same time, this era also saw ongoing controversy about Japanese immigration to Hawaii and the West Coast, the appearance and immense popularity of Madame Butterfly (as novella, opera, play, and film) and the continuing fascination with an exoticised, non-Western Japan, a heroic, traditional Japan, and a racially 'pure' homogenous Japan. 'Japan-in-America' is, therefore, a complicated and multifaceted phenomena, very much connected to historical events, public opinion campaigns, war scares, Japanophilia, and Japanophobia, and not limited to only a few positive or negative stereotypes. This exhibit displays a wide array of images and artifacts from the popular culture of the period - paintings, poetry, and travel literature, but also postcards, illustrated books, sheet music, magic lantern slides, editorial cartoons, motion pictures, missionary tracts, children's literature, advertisements, circus acts, magic shows, and a range of other forms."

    • Through February 2007

  • "I Do." Included in museum admission. Paul Textile Arts and Fashion Arts Galleries. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis. "Wedding gowns, veils and other bridal attire and furnishings have been a traditional part of marriage rites in world cultures for hundreds of years. I Do, an exhibition opening June 11 in IMA's new galleries for textile and fashion arts, celebrates these important traditions. Fifteen Western wedding gowns�12 American and three European�will be displayed in the Paul Fashion Arts Gallery, and 30 wedding garments and other nuptial pieces from Asia and Africa will be shown in the Paul Textile Arts Gallery. The Western gowns range from a silk damask dress made in Boston in 1837 to a Christian Lacroix "Wedding Cake" dress created in the late 1980s. The sumptuous materials used in the gowns include silk satin and silk chiffon, velvet, lace, crepe and taffeta. While some of these dresses were too ornate to be worn for other occasions, many had a life after the wedding, at evening receptions and formal parties. Bridal attire from Asia and Africa�all made between the late 19th and mid-20th century�includes ensembles from China, a colorful Indonesian wrapper embroidered with shells and beads, several ensembles from India, a kaftan from Morocco, and a bridal skirt and train made by the Ndebele people of southern Africa. Photomurals in this part of the exhibition show how the garments were worn. With their exquisite workmanship, rare and precious materials and rich ornamentation, these wedding garments underscore the importance of the marriage rite in the lives of people everywhere. The Dorothy and Lee Alig Textile Learning Center�located next to the galleries�will showcase different fabrics and yarns and ways in which they are dyed and treated. Twelve small mannequins display the changes in the silhouettes of dress shapes from the 1770s to the 1960s. This space will allow visitors of all ages the opportunity to touch and to feel the textures of the different fabrics and materials. The Textile Learning Center also includes photomurals and a short video featuring marriage ceremonies from several cultures throughout the world. The Paul Fashion Arts and Paul Textile Arts Galleries are named for IMA donors Gerald and Dorit Paul. The Western gowns will be on view through April 22, 2007, and the Asian and African wedding garments will be on view through February 25, 2007."

    • Through 17 April 2007

  • "23rd season for Ronen Chamber Ensemble." Four performances in 2006-2007 Concert Series. "The Ronen Chamber Ensemble begins its 2006-2007 season of concerts with a performance at the Wood Room of the Hilbert Circle Theatre on Tuesday, October 10th, 2006 at 7:30 pm. This will be the ensemble�s 23rd season of presenting a series of four subscription concerts of chamber music in downtown Indianapolis. Two anniversaries will be observed with this performance: 1) The worldwide celebration of (Austrian composer )Mozart�s 250th birth anniversary will be honored with a performance of his Quintet in E-Flat Major, K. 452 for Piano and Winds; and 2) Butler University composer Michael Schelle�s work HOWL! for Clarinet and Chamber Ensemble will be performed, marking twenty years since it was originally written for and premiered by the Ronen Chamber Ensemble. The concert�s theme, 'Mysteries of Creation', is poignantly illuminated in Gideon Klein�s Trio for Strings (a work which was composed while the 25-year-old Klein was interned in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin, Czechoslovakia). Choros No. 2 by H. Villa Lobos for flute and clarinet will also be played on this opening night concert. ISO Principal Clarinetist David Bellman and ISO cellist Ingrid Fischer-Bellman are co-Artistic Directors for the Ensemble. Also performing are Richard Ratliff, pianist, Anna Mattix, oboe, Mark Ortwein, bassoon, Rick Graef, horn, Jayna Park, violin, Davis Brooks, viola, Rebecca Arrensen, flute, and Tom Harvey, percussion. Michael Schelle will perform on piano in his own piece, HOWL!. Three additional concerts are planned for Ronen�s '06-'07 season. On November 7th, a program in collaboration with the period instrument group Ensemble Voltaire entitled 'The Golden Chain' will take place at the Indiana History Center Basile Theater. This concert is a part of the Indianapolis Spirit & Place festival. 'The Magic of the Violin', co-presented with the International Violin Competition of Indianapolis will take place on February 20th, 2007 at the Indiana History Center Basile Theater. This concert will feature IVCI Silver Medalist Marco Rizzi. The final concert entitled 'Music from the St. Petersburg Conservatory' will be on April 17th, 2007 at the Wood Room of the Hilbert Circle Theatre. All concerts are on Tuesday evenings at 7:30 p.m. Ticket and Subscription Information: The series subscription price is $72, general admission. A senior citizen price of $54 and a student price of $36 are also offered. Individual concert tickets are available for $20 general admission, $15 for senior citizens, and $10 for students and AFM members. Ronen Chamber Ensemble programs are provided with support from the Indiana Arts Commission, a state agency; the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, and with support from the Arts Council of Indianapolis and the City of Indianapolis. For subscription or ticket information, contact the Ronen Chamber Ensemble at 317: 846-9334, or visit our web site."

    • 15 November through 23 December 2006

  • "I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda" (play). Indiana Repertory Theater, 140 West Washington Street, Indianapolis. Information, 317:635-5252. "Life-affirming discoveries come to a Rwanda civil war survivor and a British poet who helps publish her story."

    • 1 December 2006 through 28 January 2007

  • "The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters." Indianapolis Art Center, 820 East 67th Street, Indianapolis. Works by "Eduardo De Solgnie, Cuban-born, Chicago-based painter heavily influenced by Cuban folklore, Afro-Carribean music, and whimsical landscapes composed of part reality and part fantasy."

    • 3 December 2006 through 30 June 2007

  • Prints from Paris: Vollard Editions." European Print Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 North Michigan Road, Indianapolis. "Beginning in 1895 and continuing for 44 years, Ambroise Vollard published exquisite lithographs by Cezanne, Bonnard, Vuillard and Redon and extensive suites of etchings by Picasso, Rouault and Chagall. Thirty-seven examples of Vollard's pivotal publications by these and other French masters have been chosen from the permanent collection to inaugurate IMA's new gallery dedicated to European 19th- and early 20th-century works on paper."

    • 6 February 2007 through 15 July 2007

  • "West African Ceramic Vessels." Included in museum admission. Eiteljorg Gallery for Special Exhibitions, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis. "This exhibition features 41 traditional earthenware vessels that highlight the beauty and sophistication of utilitarian objects. The display includes works representing West African cultures from the present-day nations of Mali, Burkina Faso, Liberia, Nigeria and Cameroon. Most of the containers were made by women in their homes, maining as containers for water, beer and grain and other food and drink. The exhibition features works from the IMA's permanent collection as well as from private lenders."

    • 25 February 2007 through 3 June 2007

  • "AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1968�2003." Included with museum admission. McCormack Forefront Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 North Michigan Road, Indianapolis. "'AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1968�2003' is a groundbreaking exhibition of 56 prints and drawings by 26 artists from Havana and Santiago de Cuba. The artists represent a cross section of Cuban society, and their works exhibit a diverse range of subject matter, styles and techniques. AfroCuba features contributions by artist-members of Grupo Antillano, which evolved in the late 1970s and whose work underscores Cuba�s African heritage, as well as artists who were sent to Africa, particularly Angola, either as combatants in revolutionary struggles or as cultural attach�s. The exhibition also features works by artists whose imagery is derived from AfroCuban religious expressions, including Santer�a, and works that comment on Cuban race and social relations, including recent works that cast a more critical eye on Cuba�s political and economic conditions. This 35-year chronicle of AfroCuban art testifies to the vitality and richness of work produced on this nearby island. 'AfroCuba: Works on Paper, 1968�2003' was organized by San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery."
  • "Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water." Included in museum admission. Allen Whitehill Clowes Special Exhibition Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis. "Organized by the IMA, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons: Everything Is Separated by Water will be the first touring mid-career retrospective of this important Afro-Cuban artist�s work, comprising approximately 40 objects produced over the past 20 years. From her earliest relief paintings to her recent room-sized mixed-media installations and large-format Polaroid photographs, Campos-Pons has built a dynamic model of inventive identity. Using art to comment on her imagined displacement from Africa, her actual exile from Cuba, and her experience as a black Cuban woman living in North America, Campos-Pons has re-assembled fragments, symbols and memories of personal and collective history, religion, mythology and art. Many of her works deploy the female body�in its entirety or fragmented�to address the challenges inherent in building a coherent identity in the modern world. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, providing an important resource for visitors and specialists in contemporary art, African Diasporic art, Black Studies, Gender Studies and American Studies."

    • 9-25 March 2007

  • "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" (play). Buck Creek Players, 11150 Southeastern Avenue, Indianapolis. "Comedian Steve Martin is the author of this absurdist comedy set in a Paris cafe in 1904. Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso meet in the days just before they launch their respective revolutions in a show that has more twists and turns than the streets of Paris."

    • 23 September 2007 through 6 January 2008

  • "Roman Art from the Louvre." Included in museum admission. Allen Whitehill Clowes Special Exhibition Gallery, Indianapolis Museum of Art, 4000 Michigan Road, Indianapolis. "The Indianapolis Museum of Art will be the first U.S. venue for Roman Art from the Louvre, an exhibition of original works from the Musee de Louvre in Paris, France. Organized by the American Federation of Arts and the Musee du Louvre, the traveling exhibition represents the largest number of loaned pieces from the Louvre for any single show. Supported locally by a $1.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., Roman Art from the Louvre features approximately 180 prime examples of Roman art drawn from the Louvre�s unsurpassed collection. The exhibition examines aspects of Roman art�works made between the first century BC and the early fourth century AD�in artistic, historical and socio-cultural contexts. The objects, which have never before been shown in any exhibition in the United States, include mosaics, frescoes, terracotta statuettes, monumental sculptures, marble reliefs and glass and metal vessels. Arranged by theme, the exhibition will both highlight contrasts and underscore continuities that characterize these artistic manifestations of Roman public and private life. The exhibition will explore religion, urbanism, war, imperial expansion, funerary practices, intellectual life and family. The exhibition will close with ancient statues that have been repeatedly repaired and altered since the Renaissance, reflecting both the importance of Roman art and the way in which it has been collected, interpreted and restored over the centuries. Roman Art from the Louvre is organized by the American Federation of Arts and co-curated by Daniel Roger and Cecile Giroire, curators in the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities Department at the Muse�e du Louvre."

    • Indy's Ongoing International Events


    Athenaeum/Das Deutsche Haus

    401 East Michigan Street, Indianapolis
  • Guided tours of the historic building begin at 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. on the first Saturday of the month, at 1 p.m. on the first Wednesday of the month, and by appointment. They are conducted by the Athenaeum's Docent Club, which meets from 10 a.m.-noon on the first Saturday of the month (where else?) the Athenaeum. For information on joining the Docent Club and conducting tours, contact Sandra Henselmeier Funk, 317:251-8658. For information on scheduling a tour, contact the Athenaeum Foundation office, 317:630-4569, ext. 1.
  • The Maennerchor Society of Indianapolis rehearses in the Damenverein Room of the Athenaeum at 7 p.m. each Monday.
  • Traditional Contradancing is held in the Athenaeum from 8-10 p.m. each Tuesday. No partners necessary. Beginners welcome. Lesson at 7:45 p.m. $5 per session. Live Music. For information, see website or contact Fiona Solkowski, 317:955-2098.

    • Return to current calendar
    Return to main page

    You are visitor #
    Created and maintained by Nationalities Council of Indiana, host of Indy's International Festival.
    webmaster
    (last updated 16 October 2006)