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Aug 06 to Nov 30
Art exhibit of works by the late actor Anthony Quinn. The exhibit also includes works from his collection by artists from around the world includeing Renoir, Matisse, Henry Moore, Josef Herman and Karel Appel.
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Aug 13 to Feb 28
Beginning in August, Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection and Special Collections Library will give its entire exhibition space over to a time when the American Southwest was the domain of conquistadors and Spanish missionaries.
“Medieval Southwest: Manifestations of the Old World in the New” opens Aug. 13 and continues through April 4, 2009.
The multidisciplinary collaboration will draw on the expertise of historians, musicians, architects and anthropologists; utilize the resources of Texas Tech campuses on two continents; and tap dozens of collections of rare and precious items to give visitors a glimpse of the Southwest as it was during the days of Coronado and Mission San Sabá.
To the accompaniment of period music, people will view armor and weapons used by the conquistadors, such as crossbow points from 1542, a wheel-lock carbine from 1610 and a Charleville flintlock musket from 1750. Exhibits will display buttons, coins and pottery recovered in archaeological digs, rare books and maps never before displayed to the general public.
Fine metalwork will include a Spanish lion and carved jewelry, particularly a small cross with a skull at its base – similar to one found at the Alamo – used to ward off the evil eye. Rare engravings and woodcuts on display, among them Our Lady of Guadalupe and one of the first depictions of buffalo, have printing dates from 1531 to 1797.
Address: The corner of 15th Street and Detroit Avenue Lubbock TX
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Literary Lubbock, a showcase evening featuring Texas Tech University Press authors, is one of Lubbock’s signature annual literary events. This year’s program, an official Lubbock Centennial event, will take place May 2, at 5:30 p.m. at the Merket Alumni Center on the Texas Tech campus. Featured authors will sign books during a pre-dinner reception and then read selections from their recent works during the dinner program, hosted by Lubbock writer and musician Andy Wilkinson.
Address: 17th and University Lubbock Tx
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