Spiraling Jeté (Down) Nicholas Frank Lump Gallery Through March 31 Cue music: Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself.” But instead of visualizing a snarling, bleached-blond MTV rocker from the ’80s, imagine a crude video of a guy in a red body stocking and a red Alpine knit ski mask in an empty gallery space, awkwardly leaping […]
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Revisiting the dawn of postmodernism—and feminist art—at the Nasher
The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1991 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Through Dec. 31 On Thursday, Oct. 13, at 7 p.m., the Guerrilla Girls appear in the museum’s auditorium. “I’m just looking.” It’s the early 1980s, and a sleek, perfectly chic woman in a clingy dress with de […]
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Dawn Gettler’s repetitive acts at Artspace
through the doubt Artspace Through Sept. 3 Our lives are composed of innumerable repeated actions. What we say, think and do forms a matrix of repetitions, an accumulation of modular repeated fragments that amount to a life. In The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size, the Danish science writer Tor Norretranders lays out just […]
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New American landscapes at Flanders
After Destiny: The Contemporary American Landscape Flanders Art Gallery Through Aug. 30 I can see why a contemporary artist would have a rough go of itif what he’s into is landscapes. Greg Lindquist has an uphill battle. He does landscapes. And he’s a painter. He’s a landscape painter. Ouch. That will put you on the […]
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Raleigh’s Team Lump and New Orleans’ The Front create an homage to Drop City
The Front vs. Team Lump: Drop City Lump Gallery Through June 25 Gallery open Saturday 1–5 p.m. & by appointment weekdays Fifty years ago, decades before David Letterman started tossing stuff off buildings, artists Gene Bernofsky and Clark Richert looked out their loft window in Lawrence, Kan., down to the sidewalk below and conceived of […]
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Anthony Goicolea’s early-career survey at the NCMA covers a decade of world building
Alter Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea North Carolina Museum of Art Through July 24 We’re out in the woods somewhere, far from the inhabited world, in a place that was never supposed to have been seen. And yet somehow we’ve stumbled onto this remote outpost, a forest clearing flanked by nondescript living […]
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The Norman conquest: Yes, Rockwell is here, but it’s only one of five intersecting shows at NCMA
In order to enter the exhibition space of American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell at the North Carolina Museum of Art, you have to pass through a gallery with no pictures at all, a blank-slate antechamber whose walls are inscribed with a Google search’s worth of quotes about the artist, adding up to a […]
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A new spin on contemporary art at Nasher’s The Record
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl Nasher Museum of Art Through Feb. 6, 2011 I used to live in Little Italy in New York City. When someone died in my neighborhood and there was no one to come claim that person’s stuff, whole lives would be put out on the sidewalk for the trash collectors. […]
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The history of a brilliant ad campaign at Duke’s Perkins Library
See Related Events below for exhibit information. I’m following a trail of goo, an unctuous path that flows from the farthest reaches of the geopolitical corporate grasp to the most personal and intimate of domestic spaces. The trail unfurls in a dark plume off the Louisiana coast, spawning an interconnected swirl of oil-drenched seabirds, fragile […]
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Lori Waxman: Rocking the art world, one review at time
I couldn’t bring myself to look at the screen. I was there. The critic was there. My artwork was there. And that screen was there, revealing, character by character, every word, every typo, every revision the critic entered about my work. I sat off to the side, watching a few others watching the screen. One […]