Sunday, April 8 Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh 2 p.m., free, www.quailridgebooks.com Last year, the Carolina African American Writers’ collective published One Window’s Light: A Collection of Haiku on Unicorn Press. Hailed as a “literal and metaphorical groundbreaker” by Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures coeditor Lauri Ramey, the book, edited by collective founder Lenard D. […]
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Lee Hansley Gallery Celebrates Twenty-Five Years in Raleigh with Mentor/Mentee: Lope Max Diaz/Luke Miller Buchanan
Sunday, April 8 Lee Hansley Gallery, Raleigh 2–5 p.m., free, www.leehansleygallery.com Lee Hansley Gallery celebrates its twenty-five-year history in a Raleigh with, appropriately enough, an exhibit celebrating lineage. Luke Miller Buchanan studied with Lope Max Diaz at N.C. State’s College of Design. Putting their paintings side by side shows how the elder’s striking geometric designs […]
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Pleiades Gallery Asks If an Art Exhibit Can Change the World
Saturday, April 7 Pleiades, Durham 7:30 p.m., free, www.pleiadesartdurham.com This Earth Month exhibit at Pleiades gallery, on view through April 29, is poised on the grass-blade-edge between appreciating the beauty of the natural world and sounding the alarm about its dire endangerment by human recklessness and bad policy. Carin Walsh and Jenny Blazing have a […]
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NCMA Throws an All-Nighter to Celebrate New Immersive Exhibit You Are Here: Light, Color, and Sound Experiences
Saturday, April 7 & Sunday, April 8 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh 8 p.m. Sat.–10 a.m. Sun., free–$27 www.ncartmuseum.org We usually know where we stand in relation to art: outside, looking in. You Are Here, a new exhibit at NCMA, asks what it would be like to be inside, looking outthough “asks” is too […]
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Mad at Full Frame or Just Want More? Either Way, Single Frame Has You Covered.
Single Frame Sunday, April 8, 6 p.m. Shadowbox Studio, Durham Maybe you can’t afford Full Frame. Maybe all the screenings you want to see are sold out. Or maybe you have a grudge against it for any number of reasonsbeing mainstream, being traditional, being elitist, being popular. In any scenario, the Smyth brothers, proprietors of […]
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Skate Videos Immortalize the Physical Glory and Pain of Skateboarding Life, Leaving Docs like Minding the Gap to Explain Why
I love skateboarding, both the physical feeling and aspects of the culture, and skate videos are where the physics and culture collide. These days, the tradition of the sponsored group skate video is under siege by unaffiliated prodigies on Instagram. (The skating arms race has accelerated to the point where little kids rip as hard […]
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True Lies: The Most Visionary Directors at Full Frame Know You Sometimes Have to Bend Reality to Pierce It
All decent journalists know that you can’t just aim a recording device at reality and expect it to divulge the truth. You have to analyze, interpret, and present the information in such a way that its hidden inner workings and its invisible outer context are made clear, forming a choreography of storytelling in which truths […]
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Meet a Forgotten Legend of New Orleans Jazz in British Artist John Akomfrah’s Precarity at the Nasher
Thursday, March 29 The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham 10 a.m.–9 p.m., free www.nasher.duke.edu Unless you’re a student of jazz, you’ve probably never heard of one of its key prototypes, Charles Joseph “Buddy” Bolden, a powerhouse cornetist known as a pioneer of New Orleans ragtime by modern academics and as the leader of one of […]
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Photographer Jeremy M. Lange Surveys the State of North Carolina Tobacco in After Golden Leaf
Thursday, March 29 Spectre Arts, Durham 6-9 p.m., free, www.spectrearts.org One of Durham’s many contradictions is that even though half the buildings have “tobacco” in the name, you can’t smoke anywhere. In After Golden Leaf, his thesis exhibit for Duke’s graduate program in experimental and documentary arts, photojournalist and documentarian (and former INDY photographer) Jeremy […]
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As a Writer and as DJ/rupture, Jace Clayton Has Been Both Prophet and Architect of Our Digital, Global, Post-Genre Musical Age
SOUND~SITE~ECHO EVENTSCumbia Sonidera Salon (Monday, April 2, 6 p.m., El Centro Hispano, Durham) Bilingual discussion and listening event featuring Mexican soundsystem operator Alejandro Aviles (aka Sonido Kumbala), anthropologist Alexandra Lippman, and Jace Clayton.The Julius Eastman Memorial Dinner (Wednesday, April 4, 8 p.m., The Fruit, Durham) Evening-length performance by Jace Clayton, David Friend, Emily Manzo, and […]
