The Ciompi Quartet with Awadagin Pratt Saturday, Sept. 20, $10–$25, 8 p.m. Duke’s Baldwin Auditorium 1336 Campus Drive, Durham dukeperformances.duke.edu When the Ciompi Quartet steps onstage at Baldwin Auditorium this weekend, their wardrobe, for once, might rival their program. They’ll share the show with pianist Awadagin Pratt, the flashiest dresser in a buttoned-down business. Pinstriped […]
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Check out divine drawings at NCMA, but don’t forget about smaller, riskier shows in the Triangle
As the big fall season of art openings kicks off, from Joan Miró at the Nasher to Click! Triangle Photography Festival shows all over the place, don’t overlook riskier or more intimate exhibits in the Triangle’s smaller spaces. The phrase “by appointment only” might discourage the casual viewer, but consider contacting ANDRÉ LEON GRAY at […]
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After helping grow Sacrificial Poets from a slam team to an educational fixture, Kane Smego heads west
Kane Smego calls himself NovaKane, but he’s anything but numbespecially as he prepares to leave the Triangle for a new adventure. He’s crammed his books in a car and is about to motor off to Los Angeles, into the unknown. “I’ll be on the road for about 10 days,” Smego says. “It’s like the metaphor […]
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The peculiar focus of two Hopscotch art installations
If you pass Lump on Hopscotch’s Friday night, don’t be alarmed by the unusual. You might, for instance, hear unearthly drones emanating from the Raleigh art gallery. And you might wonder if the contraption insidehalf of a kitchen appliance store webbed to paper shredders and chord organsis making the sound or just making a mess. […]
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David McConnell at Flanders; book art at Daylight
Flanders Gallery on the move Development around Raleigh’s new train station is compelling Flanders Gallery to relocate. In November, it will part ways with CAM and the Warehouse District, moving into a much smaller space adjacent to Lump Gallery on Blount Street. Director Kelly McChesney calls the move a win-win. “I think that downsizing will […]
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New and old galleries adapt to a shifting landscape
Artists and galleries around the Triangle are getting agile this fall, as the cheap, old properties they’ve traditionally lived in are snapped up and razed for condos and mixed-use development. It’s not fun to see favorite places struggle or vanish as commercial pressure rises, but new spaces have appeared in different areas and old ones […]
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Rauschenberg Recombined: With Bruce Conner and various Nasher holdings
RAUSCHENBERG: COLLECTING AND CONNECTING Nasher Museum of Art, Durham Through Jan. 11 http://nasher.duke.edu As anyone who’s surfed Tumblr knows, curation is now creation. But this idea predates the Internetputting one thing next to another has been considered a creative act for at least a couple of centuries. We call it collage, montage, bricolage, assemblage. Now […]
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New organization DIDA unifies the scattered local dance community in a season of performances
Durham independent dance artists, a new organization devoted to connecting and supporting Triangle dance-makers, is striving to create a better ending for a familiar story. Here’s how it usually goes: Independent choreographers troll for dancers, lighting designers and photographers. They scrounge for a performance space with an adequate floor and fumble through the mysterious process […]
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Greta Garbo’s extreme close-up, some fond farewells and an erased mural
Editor’s note: “Eye of the Beholder” is a new recurring column on the local visual arts scene by Chris Vitiello. A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES You have to make an appointment to see photographer Tama Hochbaum’s Silver Screen at Hillsborough’s Daylight Project Space through Aug. 22. It’s worth it. Hochbaum shot close-ups of classic movie […]
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What Does a State Poet Laureate Do—And Why Does It Matter?
Former poet laureate Joseph Bathanti. There’s an email that Joseph Bathani keeps handy. It’s from a chopper pilot whose family dragged him to the former poet laureate’s writing workshop. There, the veteran found himself talking and writing about combat experiences he had never shared with anyone. “Some of the demons I carry around were weakened,” […]
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