The Triangle is a liberal stronghold within a North Carolina that’s not. That dynamic has long activated citizens and artists here during the Civil Rights era and the Helms years. The ongoing Moral Mondays response to the current rogue, throwback legislature registers on that historical scale. Two shows in downtown Durham galleries—the group show Speak […]
Chris Vitiello
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Politics, photos and … Porsches
If you traded beach chairs for protest posters all summer, you’ll want to spend your weekends in museums and galleries as the weather cools. The fall features a pair of hardcore political exhibitions perfect for those of us with our dander already up. The Sahmat Collective: Art and Activism in India since 1989 documents a […]
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Hillsborough novelist Allan Gurganus on Moral Mondays and Local Souls, his first book in more than a decade
Local Souls Allan Gurganus Liveright, 352 pp. Appearances Sept. 26 Quail Ridge Books & Music Sept. 27 St. Matthews Episcopal Church Oct. 5 McIntyre’s Books Nov. 13 Regulator Bookshop Allan Gurganus is one of our best-known local writers, but you haven’t seen a new title in a bookstore in a long while. That will change […]
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Remembering Raleigh’s beloved artist Renaldo Kuhler
Rocaterrania N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences Thursday, Aug. 8, 7 p.m. Shark Quest at 6 p.m. Free Renaldo Kuhler, a renowned visionary artist and longtime scientific illustrator at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, passed away on June 2. He was 81 years old. Born Ronald Kuhler in 1931, he grew up […]
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Image and alteration inform each other in Currents at CAM Raleigh
Currents: Photographs From the Collection of Allen Thomas Jr. Through Oct. 7 CAM Raleigh Photography and reality have gotten a divorce. According to the terms of their custody agreement, we the viewers shuttle back and forth between the fun parent who lets us use our imagination to construct what we see, and the strict parent […]
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A day at Durham Bulls Athletic Park with Japanese photographer Hiroshi Watanabe
Amid tables of barbecue and beer in the Durham Bulls Party Deck, photographer Hiroshi Watanabe organizes his gear. He’s oblivious to the tanned families peering from behind their iPhones at his Haselblad single-lens reflex film camera. He loops its strap around his neck, centers the black box on his beltline and nods to me. We […]
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With a festival, concerts and marketing, The Art of Cool Project bonds the Triangle jazz scene
The Art of Cool: Zombie Jazz Apocalypse Thursday, Aug. 1, 9 p.m. $5 Kickstarter pledge Motorco So, this is one of the Triangle’s supposed jazz hotbeds? I’m nestled into a shadow at the end of the bar at Raleigh haunt C. Gracehell, this place is a spiderweb of shadowstrying to figure out why some claim […]
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Trevor Schoonmaker plays Triangle tastemaker at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art
One night last month, the crowd in Durham’s Motorco Music Hall erupted as the curator took the stage. People whistled and hollered. The enthusiasm was just shy of panties being thrown. Yes, you read that right”the curator.” But then Trevor Schoonmaker isn’t your average museum curator. Officially the Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator […]
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Melanie Schiff reclaims the image at CAM Raleigh
The stars are not wanted now: Selected photographs 2006–2012 Melanie Schiff CAM Raleigh Through Sept. 1 An impressive thunderstorm congealed in the Durham sky late one recent afternoon. People tilted their heads to gape at the undersides of loaded clouds. But they stuck their phones between their eyes and those clouds. Their apps turned the […]
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Nasher Museum of Art names Sarah Schroth director
The “interim” tag is gone. Sarah Schroth is now officially in place as the director of Duke University’s Nasher Museum of Art. Photo courtesy of Duke PhotographySarah Schroth loses the interim tag as the new director of Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art. Schroth, who has been a curator at the museum since 1995—the pre-Nasher days […]