Intersections: The Creative Mentorship Program Inaugural Exhibit ROOM 100 Gallery, Golden Belt Arts, Durham Receptions Friday, June 14, 6–9 p.m. Third Friday, 6–9 p.m. Exhibition Through June 26 Jared Nelson Lopez leans forward in his chair to concentrate. The Durham School of the Arts student moves a box of small, sculpted heads from his lap […]
Chris Vitiello
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The extraordinary legacy of whirligig creator Vollis Simpson
“Have you been out to Acid Park yet?” That’s how I first heard about Vollis Simpson’s whirligigs when I moved to Wilson, N.C., in 1991. So I headed south down 301 to Lucama, hung a right at Klint’s Korner Family Restaurant and wound my way through tidy tobacco country on Wiggins Mill Road. There they […]
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Vollis Simpson, visionary North Carolina artist, dead at 94
Vollis Simpson, internationally known visionary artist and master of the whirligig, died in his sleep at his home in Lucama, N.C. on Friday night. He was 94. Simpson’s monumental windmill sculptures, many more than 40 feet tall, are made from reused machine parts, huge rigs used for moving houses, scrap metal and thousands of tiny […]
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The N.C. Opera stages Aida just enough
North Carolina Opera presents Aida Friday, May 3, 8 p.m. Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill Sunday, May 5, 3 p.m. Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh $30-$95 Timothy Myers’ voice quivers when he remembers the first time he heard soprano Angela Brown. It was the Giuseppe Verdi opera A Masked Ball, and her performance that evening changed the […]
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The Raleigh Flea Market as the great American equalizer
Let’s face it: Old, weird America is hard to find nowadays. Much of the Triangle is pretty solid suburban U. S. of A. and could be almost anywhere on the map but for the “First in Flight” license plates. Fortunately, in the Raleigh Flea Market, we still have a pocket of weirdness in a vast […]
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An explosion of New Music in the Triangle
Wet Ink Ensemble and guests Tuesday, April 30, 8 p.m. Sheafer Lab Theater, Duke University Free Multimedia collaborations from Duke graduate composers and artists New Music Raleigh Tuesday, May 7, 9 p.m.Kings Barcade $12 Beck’s Song Reader On a rainy 40-degree night in early February, I trotted without an umbrella down a soaking Chapel Hill […]
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Ackland’s annual MFA show finds a coherent theme this year
Sincerely Yours: MFA 2013 Ackland Art Museum Through May 26 Sincerity is a high-wire act but the payoff is big. An artist not only has to have something to say, he or she needs to know how to say it clearly. In Sincerely Yours, UNC-Chapel Hill’s annual show at the Ackland Art Museum, eight MFA […]
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Today: Donna Ray Norton channels old ballads at the N.C. Museum of History
Photo Courtesy of Pinecone/Photo by Carol RifkinDonna Ray Norton Jack Spicer wrote that a poet is a “counterpunching radio.” He also could have been talking about Madison County ballad singers. Just as poets are speakers through which the broadcast of language flows, so are ballad singers like Donna Ray Norton, who gives a free performance […]
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Canes battle but fall to Penguins, 5-3
PNC ARENA—The Canes were able to say that they accomplished all the points of their game plan Tuesday night. They got goals from the bottom two lines and from their defense. They didn’t flag in the second period, as has been their pattern of late. And they matched their opponent’s physicality in all three zones. […]
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Fragile Canes drop seventh straight home game
PNC ARENA—In the space of 31 seconds Saturday night, the Carolina Hurricanes’ season officially ended. Photo by Chris BairdEric Staal has had a great season. His team, however, has not. Left so wide open he could have paused to write a journal entry about it before he shot the puck, Derek Stepan beat Dan Ellis […]