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(01/20/10 9:20am)
Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cárdenas will be visiting Duke next week for a performance and artists talk. The duo will present technésexual: a mixed reality performance Monday, Jan. 25 in SoundSense Studio, CIEMAS at 6 p.m. and deliver a talk at the Nasher Wednesday, Jan. 27 at 4 p.m. The performance is part of a larger series entitled mixed relations exploring the relationships between bodies and technology. According to a statement on the piece, previously performed in Bogota:
(01/13/10 9:54pm)
The Nasher is kicking off the semester with a big one. Art critic and cultural theorist Dave Hickey, author of Air Guitar and The Invisible Dragon. As the Nasher's Wendy Hower Livingston puts it, Hickey "was practically born cool": his resume includes a tenure as executive editor at Art in America, he spent time around the Factory and he has a MacArthur grant to his name.
(11/05/09 12:43pm)
[Photo by Anahita Farahani. Courtesy flickr.com]
(10/29/09 11:00am)
Fred Wilson spoke at the Nasher Tuesday evening as the annual Semans lecturer. The artist deals with museums and objects relationships to such spaces. Before his lecture, I spoke to him about his artistic philosophy, art and more.
(10/22/09 11:17pm)
Acclaimed author John Brewer, who the Nasher blog describes as a "fascinating conversationalist" will come to the Nasher today at 5:30, for a book signing and discussion. His new novel, The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money, offers a pointed critique of the art criticism apparatus-- all through the lens of a 1919 case of dubious art authentication involving Leonardo da Vinci's "La Belle Ferronniere." Though Brewer's book comes nearly 100 years after the initial art world scandal, the debate still rages on, and the painting in question remains curiously locked in a storage vault in Omaha.
(10/19/09 5:00pm)
Princeton has been on a crazy (if poorly planned) tour that has brought them through North Carolina three times, once opening for Ra Ra Riot and, today, with Art Brut. Last week, they headlined at the Coffeehouse and we got video of them bantering, on stage and singing in the back of their van. Those hating hand claps need not listen. Otherwise, here's the video:
(09/19/09 4:00pm)
We're a bit late in posting this, but here's some video from Tooth's final performance at the Duke Coffeehouse last Friday.
(09/07/09 5:03pm)
For an interview with Nurses' Aaron Chapman, click here. Video of Throw Me the Statue forthcoming.
(09/03/09 10:36am)
Our excitement about the Nasher Museum's future exhibition The Record, slate for Aug. 2010, just skyrocketed with the announcement of a partial list of featured artists. An effort of the museum's Curator for Contemporary Art Trevor Schoonmaker, the show will explore the record's unique cultural and artistic role.
(08/21/09 9:31am)
If you're curious to see precisely what happens when "free spirits and able bodies" unite in the name of group healing, check out Golden Belt's upcoming third Friday, themed "A Night of Public Healing." At the event's epicenter is a new exhibition by Carrboro-based artist Amanda Barr.
(04/22/10 8:00am)
A teenaged Cherie Currie (played by an astoundingly mature-looking Dakota Fanning) struts across the stage in a corset and fishnets, straddling the microphone as she barks out in her trademark cacophonous growl, “Hello world, I’m your wild girl/I’m your ch-ch-ch-cherry bomb!”
(03/18/10 8:00am)
Coco Fusco, a now-canonical performance artist and feminist theorist, is coming to Duke to deliver a keynote address at this weekend’s Feminist Theory Workshop. Recess’ Claire Finch interviewed Fusco through a series of e-mails about her recent work, the elite maintenance of the fine art world and performance art’s burgeoning commercialization.
(02/18/10 10:00am)
When Duke alumnus Dorian Bolden graduated in 2002 with aspirations of Wall Street, the last thing he saw himself doing was heading back to Durham to open a restaurant. But after eight years, a brief career in finance, a personal tragedy and a marriage, he’s back as the founder and manager of the newly opened Beyu Caffe—much to the Bull City’s benefit.
(02/04/10 10:00am)
Caricature as a means of political commentary is nothing new—although in the 17th century, the most culturally relevant way to assail someone’s leadership ability was to depict him as a personified pear.
The Nasher’s newest exhibition, Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature, presents an interesting collection of historical prints alongside their more modern incarnations. The older artwork shows responses to French monarch Louis-Philippe’s reign from 1830 to 1848, while newer works in the field lance critiques at the recent presidencies of Clinton, Bush, and—refreshingly, yet fleetingly—Obama.
(11/19/09 10:00am)
Just outside the hipster hub that is the Main Street-East Chapel Hill Street intersection is a low cinderblock warehouse, unmarked except for a large “715” painted across the front in splashy colors. Formerly an auto garage, then a supplier of cremation-ready coffins, the 2,400-square-foot warehouse at 715 Washington Street is now the home of a vibrant artistic collective.
(11/12/09 10:00am)
People wanting to see Warhol’s actual paintings shouldn’t bother coming to the Nasher’s new exhibition of the artist’s Polaroids. Indeed, what stands out is not the aesthetic quality of the many photographs displayed, but rather the glimpse that they seem to offer into the enigmatic icon’s psyche—or at least his scintillatingly vibrant social life.
(11/05/09 10:00am)
Director Charles Randolph-Wright was sitting on some East Campus steps one evening in 1978 when he was inspired to drop the pre-med track and follow his dreams.
(10/15/09 8:00am)
If you’ve ever wondered what the go-to jean is for such local scene stalwarts as the musicians of the Rosebuds and Annuals, look no further than Raleigh Denim.
(10/08/09 8:00am)
Visitors to the Center for Documentary Studies may not even notice the exhibition We Cheat Each Other. Pictures and letters are unceremoniously tacked to the wall with push pins, creating an undemanding presence that undermines its hefty emotional punch.
(10/01/09 8:00am)
Taquería Lopez
