The Kipper Kids: A Slap in the Face John Hope Franklin Center Through Jan. 9, 2009 In a vitrine in the gallery space for the current show at the John Hope Franklin Center at Duke, one can find a collection of artifacts that include a prosthetic nose and chin of exaggerated proportions, two identical beanie […]
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Two artists, bold visuals and layered meanings at Branch Gallery
Water/ weight by Stacy-Lynn Waddell The Clouds Are After Me by Kambui Olujimi Branch Gallery, through Oct. 25 When you enter Branch Gallery this month, you will first encounter Stacy-Lynn Waddell’s Water/ weight, a congregation of large, pendulous droplet shapes in muslin that hang loosely from the walls. The title of this work is “When […]
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Revolutionary art from the age of Eisenhower, at the Ackland
Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art Ackland Art Museum Through Jan. 4, 2009 I feel kind of queasy when I hear or read blasé, reductive descriptors of the cultures of various historical decadesthe “flower power” ’60s, the “groovy” ’70s, the “yuppie” ’80s. To be honest I really don’t get what the cliché of the […]
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Flotsam boats and painterly jetsam
FLEET(ING): New Installations Amy Kauffman Lump Gallerywww.lumpgallery.com Through Sept. 27building/ burning/ growing Ashlynn Browning Flanders Art Gallerywww.flandersartgallery.com Through Sept. 30 A hearty gust, an emphatic breeze, any serious whoosh of air, would probably be sufficient to dismantle Amy S. Kauffman’s installation at Lump Gallery. The work, aptly titled “Fleet(ing),” is composed entirely of discarded chewing […]
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Julie Mehretu’s worlds within worlds
Julie Mehretu: City Sitings North Carolina Museum of Art Through Nov. 30 For those of us who are still suffering from post-traumatic flashbacks of the opening ceremonies in Beijing this summer, a possible catharsis might be found in City Sitings at the N.C. Museum of Art. The catharsis comes in the form of a triptych […]
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Exhilaration, anxiety and a Golden Age at the Nasher
El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Through Nov. 9 www.nasher.duke.edu/elgreco We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, […]
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Water, an increasingly scarce resource, inspires Ackland art show
Flowing Like Water: The Art of Liquidity Ackland Art Museum Through Aug. 17 “Empty your mind, be formless, shapelesslike water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can flow or […]
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Eye candy and bittersweets from Art Dorks at Wootini
Art Dorks: Meagan Ridley, Brendan Danielsson, Jason Murphy and Katie Ridley Wootini Through Aug. 5 Before I jump into my art review, I have to tell you that Miel Bon Bons is now open in the Carr Mill Mall in Carrboro, and it’s a beautiful thing. No, they didn’t pay me to write that. Here’s […]
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Lump Gallery looks at how some young artists play the high/low game
LowEnd Theories Lump Gallery Through June 28 The investigation of humble craft and lowly materials in service of what is often called high art can be traced to the readymades of Marcel Duchamp, the assemblage works of Bruce Connor, Mike Kelley’s “pathetic” works of the 1980s and, more recently, to Anna Sew Hoy’s macramé and […]
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Divine offerings in two shows at Branch Gallery
Churches by Ann Toebbe “Das Hochzeitshaus” by Nadine Robinson Branch Gallery Through June 7 A gallery space has certain properties in common with places of worship. They can both serve as sanctuary, as a place where one goes to be challenged and inspired; and they hold the potential to evoke a sense of awe in […]