Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print N.C. Museum of Art Through Feb. 10 We want time machines. We want to rewind reality to see events a second time, or even to change things. This desire may well undergird the whole idea of representational art. Remember when we killed that huge mastodon? Seriously, look over here, we […]
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Ambrose Akinmusire and the slow crawl toward enjoying new jazz
Ambrose Akinmusire Quintet plays the Casbah in Durham at 9 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 12, and Saturday, Oct. 13. Tickets for each show are $10–$24. Visit Duke Performances. Outside of the Waffle House on Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, I popped quarters into a News and Observer box to read that trumpet legend Miles Davis was […]
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Wayne White’s cardboard, hot glue and paint in Beauty Is Embarrassing
Beauty Is Embarrassing opens Oct. 19 in select theaters Our rating: The first thing you notice about Wayne White in Beauty Is Embarrassing, a documentary about the artist’s life and work, is his intense, pale eyes sparkling from sunken sockets in one of the more worn-out, grizzled faces you’ve ever seen. It gives you the […]
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GirlTalk: Female artists using text at CAM Raleigh
GirlTalk: Women and Text CAM Raleigh Through Jan. 14 Ah, ’tis the highest season for public speech acts. The sentence “We built it” means something different since umpteen Republican National Convention speakers hammered on it as a refrain. Likewise, “Forward” lands more heavily now that President Obama’s hanging his campaign off those two syllables. And […]
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FRANK In Focus plumbs the medium during two months of events
FRANK In Focus: Forums on Photography Locations throughout the Triangle Sept. 5–Nov. 1 event schedule Like most big ideas, the FRANK In Focus photography festival started small: a group show of contemporary work in Chapel Hill’s FRANK Gallery, maybe a panel discussion or an artist talk. That seed of an idea bloomed into a garden […]
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Triangle art spaces offer Munch’s prints, photography galore and a focus on Japan
If the Triangle’s art scene were viewed as a sports team’s lineup, you’d finally have to call it a title contender. Leadoff-hitting galleries like Raleigh’s Flanders, Hillsborough’s Eno and Durham’s Carrack get on base with rapidly rotating exhibitions. Sluggers such as the North Carolina Museum of Art drive them home with blockbusters and solid thematic […]
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In two exhibitions, artists resolve memory with media
Mark Bradford Nasher Museum of Art Through Dec. 9 Terrains of Absence Flanders Gallery Through Sept. 1 Instagram pictures kind of creep me out. They’re attractive at first glance because they resemble the aging snapshots in my parents’ photo albums. But I know that the visual filters are just algorithms, and they immediately seem insincere, […]
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The banjo tells its complicated interracial tale
The Banjo: Southern Roots, American Branches happens at UNC-Chapel Hill Saturday, Aug. 25, from 10 a.m.–4 p.m., with a concert to follow at 7:30 p.m. In 1961, Robert Cantwell was seduced by a banjoa Gibson Mastertone, to be exact, in the hands of Earl Scruggs. Banjo enthusiasts typically have a passionate, personal relationship to the […]
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Painted cows on parade at Golden Belt to benefit UNC Children’s Hospital
CowParade Round Up Golden Belt Arts 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Aug. 18 Paula MacLeod has grout in her hair. The Durham-based mosaic artist steps back to survey the white flank of a cow sculpture, covered with jagged chunks of broken Vietri dishes and crockery, ungrouted. She has a ways to go. But MacLeod is smiling and […]
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Carolina pays its Calder Kid
Does Cheerwine come in champagne bottles? File photo by Peggy BooneJeff Skinner, seen exulting two seasons ago during a game against the New York Islanders The Carolina Hurricanes locked up another component of the team’s core by inking 20-year-old forward Jeff Skinner to a six-year contract extension. The deal keeps the gifted scorer in the […]