In September, Durham artist Stacey L. Kirby drove a jam-packed fifteen-foot truck to Grand Rapids, Michigan, to install her interactive installation The Bureau of Personal Belonging at the annual ArtPrize festival. After having life-changing conversations with thousands of visitors, Kirby drove home three weeks later with a $200,000 check. Uniting several of Kirby’s projects, which […]
Chris Vitiello
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In Rolling Sculpture, the Fantasy and Faith of Consumer Culture Whisper Through Shapely Art Deco Cars
ROLLING SCULPTURE: ART DECO CARS FROM THE 1930S AND ’40S Through January 15, $13–$19 (members/children free) North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh When it’s all over and some teacher-bot in the year 3000 is telling ancient-history students about the unlikely geopolitical phenomenon that was the United States, it’s likely that we will be called “the […]
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In Rooftop Performance Quadrants, Stephanie Leathers Summons Humanity in the Face of Development
Stephanie Leathers Monday, September 26, 6:30 p.m. The Durham Hotel/The Viget building, Durham There’s the city that you live in, with its buildings and roads, neighborhoods and commercial zones, power lines and signage. And then there’s the city in your mind and body: the feeling of your favorite café’s door handle in your hand, the […]
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In Dress Up, Speak Up at 21c, Artists Unravel Clothing and Ornament Into Identity Politics
DRESS UP, SPEAK UP: COSTUME AND CONFRONTATION Through June 2017 21c Museum Hotel, Durham Almost everyone is a child of colonists, if you go back far enough. Those who have lost their freedom, their homeland, their livelihood, and their family first had those things to lose, which means they probably took them from someone else […]
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With Its Art& Project, the Ackland Makes the Museum a Place to Live
ART&: AN EXPERIMENT IN ART & COMMUNITY Through January 8 The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill A director of engagement: ten years ago hardly any art museum had one. Now, in some form, they all do. In an era of branding, you must fully commit to maintaining connections with your visitors and donors. The bottom […]
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Southern Accent Opens a Pandora’s Box of Regional Identity at the Nasher Museum of Art
SOUTHERN ACCENT: SEEKING THE AMERICAN SOUTH IN CONTEMPORARY ART Through January 8, $3–$5 (free for members) The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham www.nasher.duke.edu You know this kid. It’s the first day of school, and your summer assignmenta personal essay about how you’ve spent the last three monthsis due. Everyone is clutching a page of hastily […]
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N.C. Opera Presents the Undead, Superheros, the Apocalypse and Creation in Its New Season
Expanding upon an adventurous season that turned heads with its staging of Davis Miller’s boxing opera Approaching Ali, the North Carolina Opera keeps the pedal down in its 2016-17 season, which it announced this week. The eyecatcher on the season is Patrick Morganelli’s Hercules vs. Vampires, an act of sheer Technicolor multimedia madness, coming to […]
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Some Photographers Turn Their Subjects Into Objects at 21c Museum Hotel
OFF-SPRING: NEW GENERATIONS 21c Museum Hotel, Durham Thursday, March 24, 6 p.m., free A society rehearses its behavior through its rituals. They might be as public as a hockey crowd venting anger and joy, as private as the intimacies exchanged in a bed, or as contradictory as the ambivalence of voters during a volatile political […]
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Artists Look For Meaning In a Cycle of Brutality in Racial Violence and Resilience
RACIAL VIOLENCE AND RESILIENCE: QUESTIONS AND CURRENTS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ART Through Feb. 21Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill Also showing:WALLS OF COLOR: THE MURALS OF HANS HOFMANN Through April 10 Amid the din of shots fired at black men by white cops and the shouts of protest that ensue, artists can bring nuance to discussions […]
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In Walls of Color, Hans Hofmann’s Studies for Unrealized Murals Teach Us How to Read Abstract Art
WALLS OF COLOR: THE MURALS OF HANS HOFMANN Through April 10Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill Also showing:RACIAL VIOLENCE AND RESILIENCE: QUESTIONS AND CURRENTS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN ART Through Feb. 21 When Hans Hofmann accepted a commission for a large-scale mosaic mural project in the Peruvian city of Chimbote in 1950, he was already seventy years […]