Museum of Art Events

[caption id="attachment_6287" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Doug Vakoch[/caption] Do aliens have a sense of beauty? Could they understand…
Saturday Nov 3 2012

Lecture by Doug Vakoch: “Aesthetics for Aliens: Art, Music, and Extraterrestrials”

6:00 pm

[caption id="attachment_6287" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Doug Vakoch[/caption] Do aliens have a sense of beauty? Could they understand ours? From Johannes Kepler’s Music of the Spheres to Hollywood’s alien symphony in Close Encounters…
[caption id="attachment_6317" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Photo by Dennis di Cicco[/caption] Star Parties allow you to see distant…
Saturday Nov 3 2012

Star Party

8:00 pm

[caption id="attachment_6317" align="aligncenter" width="480"] Photo by Dennis di Cicco[/caption] Star Parties allow you to see distant stars and galaxies with your own eyes, through telescopes provided by Bates Astronomy Club and…
Zineb is an emotionally exhausted psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman…
Monday Nov 5 2012

Global Lens – Pegasus

7:30 pm

Zineb is an emotionally exhausted psychiatrist assigned to Rihana, a traumatized and pregnant young woman found in the street muttering unintelligibly about “The Lord of the Horse.” A flashback sequence…
Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos…
Monday Nov 12 2012

Global Lens – The Prize

7:30 pm

Under the cloud of a military dictatorship, a young mother and her daughter flee Buenos Aires for the seclusion of a ramshackle cottage along the windy dunes of an Argentine…
 A broken family under an incestuous patriarch lives uneasily within the gated courtyard of a…
Monday Nov 26 2012

Global Lens – Qarantina

7:30 pm

 A broken family under an incestuous patriarch lives uneasily within the gated courtyard of a dilapidated Baghdad house. The pregnant daughter has fallen silent, finding some protection from the patriarch’s…