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If we've told you once, we've told you a thousand times: get out while you can. While it's too late to go back in time and relive last week's events, at least you've got pictures to influence your plans for this weekend. Go to the Wexner Center. Go to the Cinematheque. Whatever you do, have fun in Cleveland. It's your last chance.

Interested in landscape architecture? So was Frederick Law Olmsted. A special photo exhibition on the architect, entitled Viewing Olmstead: Photographs by Robert Burley, Lee Friedlander and Geoffrey James opens May 10 at the Wexner Center for the Arts. Admission is free. For more information call (614) 292-0330.

Also opening May 10 at the Wexner Center, for all you interior design hopefulls, Apocalyptic Wallpaper: Robert Gober, Abigail Lane, Virgil Marti and Andy Warhol explores the wonders behind the underrated art medium. It'll change the way you look at your walls. For more information call (614) 292-0330.

Incorporating fasion, archtecture and landscape into one medium is just one of New York artist Beverly Semmes' talents. Her most recent works are compiled in Beverly Semmes: Stuffed Cat, which opens - you guessed it - May 10 at the Wexner Center. For more information call (614) 292-0330.

The Akron Symphony Orchestra presents works from Falla's The Three Corned Hat, Haydn's Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra, Ravel's Bolero and others May 10 at 8 p.m. The performance, conducted by Alan Balter, is at the E.J. Thomas Performing Arts Hall. Tickets start at $18, but student rates are available. For more information call (330) 972-7570.

Also May 11 at the Cleveland Museum of Art, a benefit concert entitled An Evening of Songs with Peter Schickele and David Dusing will be presented at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free. For more information call (216) 421-0044.

Ever seen The Watermelon Woman? Now you can. A movie by that name is showing at the Cleveland Cinematheque on May 10 at 7 p.m. and May 11 at 9:20 p.m. Dubbed "the lesbian film of the year," tickets are $5. For more information call (216) 421-7450.

Also at the Cinematheque this weekend, The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone plays May 11 at 7 p.m. Vivian Leigh plays a widowed American stage actress. A sure sleeper. Tickets are $5. For more information call (216) 421-7450.


Arts...Out of Town is compiled weekly by Lauren Viera.

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Copyright © 1997, The Oberlin Review.
Volume 125, Number 24, May 9, 1997

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