The N.C. Symphony presents Explorations: Freedom at Meymandi Concert Hall in Raleigh Friday, Feb. 22, and Saturday, Feb. 23, at 8 p.m. Tickets are $20–$75. Even the most mundane experiences now come in multimedia form: You can catch the news on the tiny screen built into the gas pump or the back of a cab. […]
Chris Vitiello
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Eleven paintings and a giant vagina: Robin Walker at the Carrack
“Decorative” is a bit of a dirty word in the art world. It’s why we say “interior decorators” instead of something like “décor artists.” In galleries and museums, the word “ornamental” is preferred, describing artwork that incorporates motifs from traditional crafts, fashion or architecture into a larger statement or meaning. If, in the context of […]
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What the ocean saw: David Gatten’s films at NCSU
DAVID GATTEN FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSIONN.C. State UniversityCaldwell Hall G107, 2221 Hillsborough St.Fri., Feb. 15, 5-7:30 p.m. This is the true story of how the ocean made a movie. To be more precise, filmmaker David Gatten collaborated on a movie with the Atlantic Ocean, where the Edisto River empties its freshwater into the ocean’s salt […]
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Canes gel on the road to lead division
FOX SPORTS CAROLINAS (TV)—Remember grumbling about the Hurricanes a couple weeks ago? In a word, they were middling. They’d win one and then lose one, very Jekyll and Hyde. It turns out that they just needed a little trip. Photo by Chris BairdEric Staal is among the league scoring leaders after Carolina’s 4-1-1 road trip. […]
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The Ackland’s landmark but short-term More Love exhibition
More Love: Art, Politics, and Sharing Since the 1990s Ackland Art Museum UNC-Chapel Hill Through March 31 For the next six weeks, as you enter the Ackland Art Museum, someone will tell you that they love you. Julianne Swartz’s audio work “Affirmation” (2006–13) chirps this positivity from several locations throughout the Ackland, one of many […]
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Fantastic and lonely Farfetched closes out NCSU’s current Gregg Museum building
Farfetched: Mad Science, Fringe Architecture and Visionary Engineering Gregg Museum of Art and Design at N.C. State University Through April 26 I was born during humanity’s first visit to the moon. As a kid, this coincidence was significant to me. I was certain that I was destined to go into space when I grew up. […]
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Disarming delight: Iris Gottlieb’s Inventories and Observations
Self-consciousness is exhausting. It’s such a drain to have to maintain one’s personality or to display a situationally appropriate persona as one moves from place to place over the course of a day. This is why we cherish those private places where we can let our guard down and especially those rare public places in […]
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Hat trick for the captain; Canes win their first of the year
PNC ARENA—The first time the little boy threw the hat, it barely left his hand. The second time, held aloft by his dad, he bounced it off the top of the glass and it fell back in his arms. Finally he threw harder and got it onto the ice. Third time’s a charm. Just ask […]
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Why did the Canes hear boos? It’s the lockout, stupid
PNC ARENA—In 1944, the poet William Carlos Williams published a crucial book called “The Wedge.” Wartime conservation had shut down his regular publisher, New Directions, so the tiny Cummington Press brought it out in an edition of 380, which was all the paper they could get their mitts on during the war. Williams’ famed preface […]
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In its fourth year, Strange Beauty Film Festival keeps growing
Jay O’Berski’s transformative and hot Basilisk When a film casts its story into uncomfortable waters, you’re faced with a choice about whether or not to go along. If it’s a good film, you recalibrate your sensibilities as the story plays out. Jay O’Berski’s new film Basilisk, which deals with disability and the erotic, is one […]