Photo by Grant HalversonThe opening of “Luster,” which premiered this weekend at ADF REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER/ DURHAM—I figured out the reason for all the weird, prescient meteorology of the last week. It was Monica Bill Barnes and Company blowing into town. There’s no other way to put it: Barnes bedazzled Reynolds Industries Theater Sunday night […]
Chris Vitiello
Bio: Chris Vitiello lives in Durham and writes for INDY Week on art, music and hockey.Twitter: http://twitter.com/chrisvitiello
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ADF 2012: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago’s machineries of memory and fantasy
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago : Quintett – Images by Independent Weekly DURHAM/ DPAC—Hubbard Street Dance Chicago performed a long program in the Durham Performing Arts Center last night for the American Dance Festival: three pieces and two full intermissions, which they’ll reprise tonight. Each of the dances—created by 2012 Scripps/ADF Awardee William Forsythe, Hubbard Street […]
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Repetition, compulsion and miles of yarn at Flanders Gallery
Make Ends Meet: Olek, Jonathan Brilliant and Mathew Curran Flanders Gallery Through July 21 I think about Jackson Pollock and Adolf Wölfli a lot. Pollock: Depressive, tortured and famous for flinging thousands of tendrils of paint onto a surface, the polarizing Abstract Expressionist who challenged both public taste and the sheer idea of representation. Some […]
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Canes acquire Jordan Staal on draft day
Cue up Sly and the Family Stone, Canes marketers. It’s a Staal family affair in Raleigh. In the league’s biggest deal on the first day of the draft in Pittsburgh, Carolina acquired center Jordan Staal from the Penguins for center Brandon Sutter, minor league defenseman Brian Dumolin, and the eighth overall pick. First and foremost, […]
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Will Staal have a stall next to Staal?
Even though the Triangle is finally getting its full summer swelter on, and the only ice on your mind has beer bottles nestled down into it, it’s time to talk hockey. As the National Hockey League entry draft begins on Friday night in Pittsburgh, trade rumors are flying and the Carolina Hurricanes are right in […]
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N.C. State’s Gregg Museum moves toward a new future and a new building
Dodging a dump truck, I skirt the chain link fence past the dirt pit behind N.C. State’s Talley Student Center. Finding my way into the building through the food court, I enter a dim cinderblock hallway, the end of which frames a student sprawled on a couch in the lobby. Her slumber is undisturbed by […]
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Interaction without ego: sarah goetz’s Just Between Us opens at Durham’s Carrack Gallery
The circle and the square. This phrase recalls Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man notebook drawing, in which he exemplifies the proportional relationship that the Roman architect Vitruvius asserted as optimally connecting man to the structures around him. Photo by Chris Vitiello“by how to each other we hold” (2012), suspended paper installation, sarah goetz Durham artist […]
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Courtney Fitzpatrick’s Maji Moto records a terrible African drought
Maji Moto: Dispatches from a Drought By Courtney Fitzpatrick Horse & Buggy Press 88 pp. Photographs from Maji MotoBull City Arts Collaborative Through June 30 When Courtney Fitzpatrick went to Kenya to do field work with the Amboseli Baboon Research Project in 2009, she planned to blog about it so friends and family could share […]
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Daylight’s Photographs Not Taken helps kick off their new Hillsborough space
Daylight Project Space 121 W. Margaret Lane Hillsborough Backyard BBQ Friday, May 25, 6–9 p.m. Single Source Supper Friday, June 15 It’s a bit like a Zen koan. Photographs Not Taken: A Collection of Photographers’ Essays is a book about the presence of absence. Not all of the 62 short essays are expressed so lyrically, […]
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Fifty years of school films from Charlotte-based Walter J. Klein agency
Walter J. Klein Company Film Screenings North Carolina State Archives 109 E. Jones St. Raleigh Saturday, May 5, 1–3 p.m. Free Not every film innovator has a name one is likely to recognize. In fact, very few do, according to N.C. State film professors Marsha and Devin Orgeron. The Orgerons, along with A/V Geek Skip […]