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Brains matter

They were two of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century. And in the context of the famous debate between physicists Albert Einstein and Neils Bohr on the nature of physical reality, Cornell's N. David Mermin will talk about one the strangest features of the quantum theory at the seventh annual Joseph and Sophia Konopinski Memorial Lecture in Physics at IUB Nov. 18 at 8 p.m., Rothrock Auditorium, Rawles Hall. "The Vision of Einstein, the Caution of Bohr" will explore some of the profoundly mysterious behavior that can be explained to people with no knowledge of physics, through "black-box" experiments.

Harvard's Cornel West,

one of America's foremost voices on the impact of race on American culture, will be the catalyst for a "Conversation on Race" Nov. 14 at IU South Bend. Group discussion will take place throughout the day. A community reception is at 5 p.m. West will speak at 7 p.m. at Northside Hall.

Lambshead revisited

"Watt Matthew's earthly trail has now ended," intoned the Rev. Tom Anthony at the Texas rancher's memorial service in April. "His final bacon curled....Now he'll ride in heaven's ranges on a ranch horse with angel's wings." In a photographic exhibit of images of the Lambshead Ranch patriarch who spent all but four of his 98 years on the family cattle ranch (he studied at Princeton), Laura Wilson depicts life on the modern 40,000 acre spread near Albany, Texas.

Organized by the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis, the exhibit runs through Nov. 28 at the IU Kokomo Art Gallery.

Gallery eyes

Photography, art and ephemera from the Kinsey collection at the SoFA Gallery at IUB, Oct. 24-Dec. 5

The 'ins and outs' of fame:
Poster designer's work in Kline flick

By Erik Novak

Dennis Hill is famous. Sort of. A designer in the Indiana University Office of Publications in Bloomington for the past 18 years, he had no idea that his poster artwork for the IU Opera Theater was familiar to more than just the thousands of people who attend shows in Bloomington.

The latest venue for his designs of the 1994 production of La Boheme, and the 1996 production of Don Giovanni is the movie In and Out, starring IU alumnus Kevin Kline. Kline plays Greenleaf, Ind., English teacher Howard Bracket, who's evidently a music lover.

"I went to see In and Out to find out if someone was kidding me, or whether my La Boheme poster was really in it," said Hill. "Well, I do not have a poster in the movie. I have two posters in it! The first is in Howard Bracket's classroom. The second one, Don Giovanni, hangs in his living room. It's dark...a forest at night with a blood-red moon shining through the trees. During one of the best scenes in the film, the "macho" lesson, it's right there. I just wanted to scream! I laughed hysterically and slapped my thighs."

"A personal view was making the connection that this man lives around here and goes to the opera at IU," said Hill. "Of course, he does."

Deities

They're often called "god posters" and can be found in local temples, pilgrimage sites, tea stalls, tailor shops and grocery stores in India.As India celebrates its 50th year as an independent nation, the Art Museum at IUB is hosting an exhibition of 70 chromolithographs featuring the gods of Hindu tradition and mythology, as well as representations from the Christian and Islamic faiths. The exhibit runs through Dec. 7. More than 10,000 Indian nationals live in Indiana and with the establishment of the Tagore chair in India studies in 1995, IU joined the University of California at Berkeley and Columbia University in New York City as the only American universities with endowed programs for the study of India.