Hill’s love letter to the nineties opens on Friday, Oct. 26.
Brian Howe
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Durham Public Performance-Art Project SITES Expands Its Exploration of Gentrification and Development Into Raleigh and Chapel Hill
The revamped series begins with a party and performance at Accordion Club on Friday, September 21.
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As Hopscotch Strives to Diversify, Is the Festival Losing its Center?
Hopscotch has successfully branched out with the genres it books, but it has not yet figured out how to connect them.
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The INDY’s 2018 Fall Guide to Arts & Culture
The storm of the century and the storm of fall arts land simultaneously this week. Let’s weather the former and sort through the latter together.
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In Contemporary Showcase People Get Ready, The Nasher’s Progressive Vision Snaps into Blazing Focus
PEOPLE GET READY: BUILDING A CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION Sep. 1–Jan. 6 The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham www.nasher.duke.edu Created by Guatemalan artist Dario Escobar, who often turns sporting equipment into beautiful but unusable symbols, the silver surfboard stands more than six feet high. Its knobby floral embossing triggers a vivid memory of the faux-Colonial pewter tea […]
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Hopscotch 2018: More than Music
Outside of Pop Art, high fashion, and skate magazines, art and advertisement are seldom more creatively intertwined than they are in rock music, where iconic images from album covers can outlast the music they represent, and photos and flyers create personalities not only for bands, but for whole regions and scenes. People who are only […]
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Durham Independent Dance Artists Will Use Winter to Center Before a Streamlined 2019 Season
Since Durham Independent Dance Artists began curating, promoting, and supporting an annual performance season in 2014, participation in independent dance in Durham has grown by leaps and bounds, on both sides of the ticket stand—a feat in which DIDA, though far from alone among emerging support organizations, played an undeniably large role. Though DIDA does […]
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DDI’s Public Space Project Is an Audacious, Inclusive New-Durham Turn for a Venerable Old-Durham Nonprofit
PUBLIC SPACE PROJECT Friday, August 17, 6–9 p.m., free Five Points Plaza and Alley, Durham www.downtowndurham.com In February, the Durham band Beauty World played a free show in Five Points Plaza. This was the brainchild of Rachel Wexler, the new special projects coordinator of the nonprofit Downtown Durham Inc., which contracts with the city and […]
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Dance Review: Justin Tornow and COMPANY’s Maze of Dance-Tech Dioramas Illuminates Compelling Questions About Autonomy and Art
COMPANY: SHOW ★★★ ½ Jul. 11–15 The Fruit, Durham For a show that consists of things happening inside boxes, SHOW is awfully hard to put in a box. Premiering at The Fruit last week, the virtually un-googleable performance installation by Justin Tornow and COMPANY is a maze of dance-tech dioramas in which enticements for free-range […]
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Twenty-Four Hours on an Amtrak to Philly: a Horror Story, an Adventure Yarn, and a Lesson About Embracing Life’s Rails
“The eleven-thirty Amtrak Silver Star bound for Tampa and Miami,” announces a voice at Grand Central Station. Then Al Pacino shoots like seventeen people to death before being killed himself, his body sliding down the dull silver hull of a coach-class train. My sojourn on Amtrak’s Silver Star line wasn’t quite as dramatic as that […]
