snap! photography third thursday at the MIA

On the third Thursday of every month, the MIA opens up it’s ticketed exhibits for free, brings out some music and a bar, and throws itself a party.  This month’s Third Thursday is your last chance to see the India: Public Place/Private Spaces exhibit that closes this Sunday, and is titled Snap!, focused around the photography in the museum.

William Eggleston (American, born 1939), Memphis, c. 1970

From the press release:

Photography comes into view at this snap-happy celebration. See the MIA’s renowned collection of amazing photographs. Strut your stuff to local faves Cadillac Kolstad and the Flats. And watch John Waters’s good-natured, bad-taste comedy Pecker, a film about a shutterbug who spreads his wings. Say cheese!

Celebrate the exhibition Masterpiece Photographs from the Minneapolis Institute of Arts: The Curatorial Legacy of Carroll T. Hartwell, on view in Harrison Photography Gallery, through February 25.

• Film: Pecker, 7 p.m. in Pillsbury Auditorium. Director John Waters, the originator of good-natured, bad-taste comedy, returns to his native Baltimore for this comedy about outrageous fortune. Unassuming young Pecker (Edward Furlong) is happy with his job at a sandwich shop and his hobby of snapping photos at home. But when the trendy New York art world discovers his pictures of his bizarre family members, Pecker becomes a celebrity. Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Martha Plimpton, and Mary Kay Place star. (Directed by John Waters, 1998, 86 min., 16mm, color).

• Music: local favorites Cadillac Kolstad and the Flats, 6:30 p.m. in ArtsBreak Café, cash bar.

• ASK ME! Guides, 7 to 9 p.m., Gallery 263. Get your questions answered by a trained docent.

Thursday, January 15, 2009
6 – 9 p.m.
museum-wide