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Clickety-clack and the Free Speech Booth is back
By Wendy
It’s T minus two hours until the opening event for “Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature.” Upstairs at the Nasher Museum, you can hear the clickety-clack of Marianne Wardle’s 35-year-old Kenmore sewing machine.
She is very calm, as always, under the circumstances.
Marianne is fixing the black skirt for the Free [...]
Free speech
By Kirstie
From the minute I walked in to preview the exhibition “Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature,” I felt overwhelmingly proud to be an American.
That may seem ironic considering the slanderous yet utterly hilarious art adorning the walls that attack most recent leaders of this country. It is not [...]
Free Speech Booth
By Wendy
Does the image above make you feel … something?
Artist John Cuneo’s work, “Bush’s Final F.U.,” is part of the exhibition “Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature,” opening Thursday, Feb. 4.
Visitors will have the chance to react to the show on a webcam at the Free Speech Booth outside the [...]
The cool moves to Houston
By Wendy
Next stop for the Barkley L. Hendricks train: Houston.
The much-loved American artist’s acclaimed retrospective travels for the last time to the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, where it opens Friday, January 29. It’s hard to believe the journey began almost exactly two years ago at the Nasher Museum, where the [...]
Artists Unite For Haiti
By Dr. J Caldwell
One of the newest art galleries in the area, The LoDi Project on N. Blount Street, Raleigh, has put out a call for local artists to create art for a benefit for Haiti. Owner Georges Le Chevallier’s cousin Gerard Le Chevallier worked in Haiti during the earthquake [...]
Mingering Mike’s dream
By Wendy
Mingering Mike is a mysterious guy.
He lived in an imaginary world in his bedroom in the 1970s, like a lot of teenagers. In Mingering Mike’s world, he was a famous R&B singer, producing dozens of albums.
He painstakingly created those albums out of cardboard and paper, drawing the covers and [...]
Medical students at the Nasher Museum
By Juline
Overheard one recent day in the galleries, one medical student to another: “I cannot overemphasize how big his sideburns are.”
For the fourth year, Duke first-year medical students in the practice course have come to the Nasher Museum to hone their visual perception and communication skills. The program is run [...]
A contemporary breather
By Christina
When they visit the permanent collection, visitors to the Nasher Museum will be pleasantly surprised to find a small group of photographs, stills and prints. The first images are from photographer Burk Uzzie, a Raleigh native. He focuses on everyday objects found outside – trees, trailers and even an [...]
Third Friday, first rate
By Molly Leutz
I love the idea of the art walk, the art crawl, the art gallop. However you maneuver it, the art walk feels like an important flag staked in the landscape of a city or a neighborhood, claiming cultural cred. But while I love the idea of the art [...]