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At the Speed Cinema next weekend: ‘Our Last Tango’

The life and love story of Argentina’s most famous tango dancers María Nieves Rego, 80, and Juan Carlos Copes, 83, is revealed in this documentary/performance hybrid, according to the Speed’s event description. While telling their life stories to a group of young tango dancers and choreographers from Buenos Aires, María and Juan’s early lives are interpreted by the dancers.

2015. Directed by German Kral. Germany/Argentina, DCP, in Spanish with English subtitles, 85 minutes.

Tickets: $7 for members; $9 for non-members. Please click on a showtime below to buy them:

Live tango after the movie

Following the screenings, members of the Louisville Argentine Tango Society will share their love of the dance with a milonga, an Argentine Tango social dance, in which audience members can watch or join in dancing in the Speed Cinema lobby.

About the cinema

Speed Art Museum logoThe 142-seat theater is part of the newly renovated museum’s expansion. It’s equipped with state-of-the-art technology, including 16-mm, 35-mm and DCI-compliant 4K digital projection systems.

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Frazier Museum holding major Julius Friedman exhibit

lballetThe Julius Friedman: Fifty Year Retrospective opening Friday will feature some of the Louisville artist’s most iconic posters, including “Toe on Egg” (left), his famous Louisville Ballet poster of a dancer’s shoe balanced on an egg. In all, the exhibit will include more than 200 works.

Friedman’s work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, and in other institutions across North America, Asia and Europe.

The exhibition runs through Oct. 9. More about the artist.

The Frazier is at 829 W. Main St. on Museum Row at the corner of Ninth and Main streets. It’s open Monday through Saturday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, noon to 5 p.m. Adult tickets are $12. More ticket information.

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Bear with Louisville Film Society’s 8th Annual Flyover Film Festival

PrintThe five films in the July 24-29 festival include “Bear with Us, Kentucky,” an oddball comedy about a vicious bear derailing an otherwise romantic marriage proposal. Louisvillians will recognize hometown actor and Walden Theatre alumnus Collin Smith.

The festival will host events at the Kentucky Center, Speed Cinema, Baxter Avenue Theaters and Copper & Kings, according to WFPL. All-access passes are $45; details here.

Why’s it called “flyover”? Maybe because of this.

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Speed unveils van Eyck’s ‘Virgin and Child’ from the Frick
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On loan: “Virgin and Child, with Saints and Donor,” about 1441-43.

Jan van Eyck  (c. 1390 to July 9, 1441) was one of the first artists to master oil paint. His skill rendering light effects and highlights made him internationally famous, according to The Courier-Journal.

“Virgin and Child with Saints and Donor” is being show in Kentucky for the first time. It’s on loan to the Speed for what amounts to a swap with the Frick Collection of New York. The Speed recently loaned Anthony van Dyck’s “Portrait of a Woman” to the Frick for a special exhibit on the artist. In return, the Frick is sharing its van Eyck painting with the Louisville museum.

The Frick acquired the painting in 1954; here’s how the museum describes it: The Virgin, holding the Child, stands in majesty on an Oriental carpet, enframed by a sumptuous brocade canopy and hanging inscribed AVE GRA[TIA] PLE[N]A (Hail [Mary] full of grace). She is attended by St. Barbara, with her attribute of the tower in which she was imprisoned rising behind her, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, who gave up her crown to become a nun, and a kneeling Carthusian monk.

About the Speed

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Today’s free admission promotion at the Louisville Zoo: coincidence, or wink-wink gay pride weekend joke?

Zoo admission is free today — if your name’s Dorothy — to celebrate its oldest resident, “Dot,” the Aldabra tortoise; she’s turning 80 today.

At least, that’s the official explanation, according to WDRB. But amid this weekend’s gay pride festivities, Boulevard observes that “friend of Dorothy” has long been playful code for being gay.

Photo, top: a still from the terrifying scene where the Wicked Witch uses her broom to skywrite a demand that Emerald City turn over a terrified Dorothy Gale in 1939’s classic Wizard of Oz.

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Yes, you can ride at a snail’s pace at the next CycLOUvia street festival Aug. 7 in Three Points

Starting in 2012, the nine CycLOUvia events have attracted tens of thousands to neighborhoods across the city for festivals temporarily cleared of vehicles. The next one will be Sunday, Aug. 7, from 2-6 p.m on Goss Avenue, Logan Street, and Shelby Street in Germantown, Schnitzelburg, and Shelby Park — also known as Three Points. Previous CycLOUvias were on Bardstown Road, West Broadway and Frankfort Avenue.

Photo, top: a rider at CycLOUVia on Frankfort in April 2015, Louisville Cycle Chic.