Amanda Barr: Public Healing Golden Belt, Building 3, Room 100 Through Oct. 11 I recently met someone who claims to have been at Woodstock. She was 15 at the time, never got very close to the stage because she didn’t like crowds. Her primary takeaway from the experience: “It was good to see The Tribe.” […]
Amy White
Bio: Amy White is an award-winning writer and artist who lives in Carrboro.Email: [email protected]: http://twitter.com/parallelarts
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A major retrospective of the little-known but compelling Aldwyth
Aldwyth work v. / work n.: Collage and Assemblage 1991-2009 Ackland Art Museum Through Sept. 13 From afar it’s a magnificent fantasy, a planet bejeweled with eyes that appear to pour from the heavens and spill across the surface and around the edges of the floating sphere. The eyes dazzle and gleam, dripping in accumulated […]
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Christian Marclay’s visions of sound at the Nasher Museum
Christian Marclay: Video Quartet Nasher Museum of Art Through July 26 (closed for Independence Day) (**Please note: Due to a technical error, a star rating was inadvertently assigned to this show in the initial online version of this review. The Indy currently only assigns star ratings to film and theater reviews. We have since removed […]
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Phil logic
Ever calm on the sidelines, at the eye of the Los Angeles Lakers maelstrom, the embodiment of Zen detachment: For me, it’s all about Phil Jackson. It’s counter-intuitive, almost maddening how in the most spectacularly chippy moments, he won’t call a time-out, as if his vantage point affords him a deeper insight than the rest […]
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A conflicted presentation of unique and powerful work at POV Gallery
Down a Dark Passage Louanne Watley Points of View Photography Gallery Through June 19 When you see the word “nun,” what images immediately come to mind? For those with Catholic school upbringings, it will no doubt elicit a series of specific, personal memories. For others, myself included, with little or no personal history linking us […]
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Cammi Climaco channels her inner gossip girl
Yesterday Was Yesterday. Tomorrow Is Ours. New Work by Cammi Climaco Lump Gallery/Projects Through May 30 A flat-screen video monitor displays the words “All of my dreams came true today!” This hyperbolic declaration appears in brightly colored handwritten script against a blank white field. The phrase fades out, only to be replaced with the equally […]
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Annual Fine Arts MFA exhibit at Ackland Art Museum
New Currents in Contemporary Art Ackland Art Museum Through May 10 From the back it looks like a temporary storage unit, an institutional gray metal box, installed on university property. Examine the front and you discover it’s a freestanding cab from a 1982 International big rig, set off from the sidewalk. A set of stairs […]
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Digital variations on a ubiquitous theme at Rebus Works
Two Views: New Work by Joseph Labate and Nicole Welch Rebus Works Through March 28 When you take a picture of the sky, what is it exactly that you’re capturing? The viewfinder frames an infinite trajectory, tracking the distance between the photographer and vast space. Within the frame is the literal representation of air, light, […]
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An audacious new generation of artists from Mexico City
Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City Nasher Museum of Art Through June 7 I am greeted by the image of a kind young woman, her face calm, almost loving. She speaks: “On behalf of all the artists represented in this exhibition, its curator and the Nasher Museum of Art, I’d like […]
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The Year in Arts: Visual Art
A storefront in downtown Durham. An abandoned barn in Cedar Grove. A church in Chapel Hill. And a few museums and galleries, too. In these venues, likely and unlikely, 2008 was full of possibilities for vital, worthwhile art in the Triangle. Looking back at the year, there was no one obvious place to enjoy artwork […]