John Supko’s All Souls Monday, Nov. 25 7:30 p.m., $25 CAM Raleigh ncopera.org The composer John Supko feels nervous, but that’s exactly how he likes it. “If I’m nervous,” he says, laughing, “then I know I’m doing something I’ve never done before.” Rehearsals for his latest concert, All Souls, are about to begin after an […]
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The Nasher and Ackland museums team up for a global look at political and activist art
The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India Since 1989 Ackland Art Museum Through Jan. 5 Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space Nasher Museum of Art Through Feb. 2 Is Banksy still provocative? Having just concluded Better Out Than In, a monthlong campaign of street art and pranksterism in public spaces around New […]
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Canes ambush Flyers in overtime
PNC ARENA—The sleeper has awoken, at least for one night. In just his third game with the Carolina Hurricanes, Manny Malhotra scored an inspiring breakaway goal in overtime to down the Philadelphia Flyers, 2-1. It was the kind of stirring vindication that could rouse this team’s offense from a season-long slumber. Photograph by Chris BairdCarolina […]
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Outside of America, choirs and national pride can be closely linked
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir Tuesday, Nov. 12, 8 p.m., $10–$32 Duke University Chapel We open our mouths, and our voices spill out, expressing everything from scholarship to profanity, confessions to gobbledygook. But in the singing voice, we find a reserve of the most essentially human themeslove, sorrow, pride, faith. In the 24-voice Estonian Philharmonic Chamber […]
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The NCMA fills its galleries with Porsches, but where’s the curation?
Porsche By Design: Seducing Speed NC Museum of Art Through Jan. 20, 2014 Tickets up to $18 The Porsches have come to Raleigh. Borrowed from private collections and celebrities, as well as from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, 22 luxury automobiles and racing cars are parked in the main gallery at the North Carolina […]
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As Outsiders Art gallery closes, Durham is still an art scene under development
After four years of exhibitions and parties, Outsiders Art gallery is throwing one last bash. On Friday night, owner Pam Gutlon will gather her festive cabal of food trucks and musicians to the colorful Victorian house on Iredell Street in Durhamground zero for the community-based resurgence of the city’s art scenebefore closing the visionary art […]
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Being Beverly McIver
I wonder if Beverly McIver ever feels like she’s chasing herself. Or perhaps passing herself in the airspace between North Carolina and New York. Her new paintings, currently on view in New York Stories at Durham’s Craven Allen Gallery, were painted during a residency in New York last year. But it wasn’t your run-of-the-mill residency. […]
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“Average” Canes drop third straight
PNC ARENA—The ruthlessly positive coach wasn’t feeling particularly positive. “We were light tonight. We got pushed out of the game. They played a heavier game than we did.” Photograph by Chris BairdBrett Sutter’s first-period tussle with Joe Vitale failed to spark the Canes, who fell 3-1 at home to the Penguins. Kirk Muller didn’t like […]
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Brian Ulrich’s recession-era photos of malls and thrift stores in Copia at the NCMA
Copia: Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001–2011 Brian Ulrich N.C. Museum of Art Through Jan. 5 In a way, you’ve already seen Brian Ulrich’s Copia: Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001–2011. You’ve shopped at the new mall in town until, supplanted by a newer mall, it faltered. You’ve rummaged the secondhand stores and marginalized businesses […]
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Pianist András Schiff enlivens Bach’s Goldberg Variations
András Schiff: Bach’s Goldberg Variations Carolina Performing Arts Memorial Hall, UNC-Chapel Hill Wednesday, Oct. 23 7:30 p.m., $10–$119 Pianists are measured against one another by how they handle benchmark compositions. For instance, with their rigor and accessibility, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Goldberg Variations helped bestow master status upon Glenn Gould. When Hungarian pianist András Schiff sits […]