The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914–1918 Nasher Museum of Art Through Jan. 2, 2011 Innovators in the sciences usually show us where we are going, but our artistic innovators tend to illuminate where we are, so that we can then move in whichever direction we see fit. And although most scientific […]
Chris Vitiello
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Millions of pennies for your thoughts
Jeff Skinner sure didn’t look like a nervous, 18-year-old kid when he strode to the podium with General Manager Jim Rutherford. And he sure didn’t sound like one fielding questions only hours before his first professional game. But that’s one of many reasons they’re paying him the big bucks. The Carolina Hurricanes signed the seventh […]
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New ways of seeing in Layers at Rebus Works
Layers Mario Marzan and Eugene Korsunskiy Rebus Works Through Sept. 25 One way I measure an art show is by what happens when I leave it. Stepping out of a gallery or museum, sometimes I just walk to my car and think about where to get a coffee. But at other times, everything outside appears […]
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The Poor Among Us at UNC tells the story of fighting poverty in N.C.
See Related Events below Click. Oddly enough, image making has become something of a lostor at least dilutedart. For every iconic image, we now have tens of thousands of snaps of wedding receptions and sudsy toddlers in bathtubs. Click. And why not, right? Your phone holds more pix than a trunk load of 35 mm […]
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Tar Heel poets write about cooking
The Sound of Poets Cooking Edited by Richard Krawiec Jacar Press; 172 pp. How many books of poetry do you have in your kitchen? None? Don’t give me that look. For so many of us, cooking involves reading, stirring with one hand and holding the cookbook open on the counter with the other. My well-worn […]
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Ways of being Latino or Latina at Golden Belt in Necessary Fictions
Necessary Fictions Room 100, Golden Belt Through July 11 www.goldenbeltarts.com With what markers do you choose to identify yourself? The countries of your family’s origin or the town you currently live in? Your stories and memories? The money you make or the stuff you buy with it? Or do you pretty much let who and […]
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A very hot character in Oscar Hijuelos’ latest novel
Oscar Hijuelos reads from Beautiful Maria of My Soul June 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Quail Ridge Books and Music in Raleigh.Beautiful Maria of My SoulBy Oscar HijuelosHyperion; 340 pp. Ah, stories, our true summer loves. We read some stories in order to live for a while alongside remarkable people during significant times, relishing how […]
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M.F.A. graduate work on display at the Ackland Art Museum
New Currents in Contemporary Art Ackland Art Museum Through May 23 “Occam’s razor” is the philosophical principle that the best solution to a problem tends to be the simplest one. Artists frequently enact this principle in their choices and usage of materials in order to achieve clear expression of their ideas. These threads of clarity […]
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Family photos inspired by Lewis Carroll’s work
Down the Rabbit Hole Photographs by Tama Hochbaum Golden Belt, Building 3Room 100 GalleryThrough April 14 Nowadays, really seeing images is nearly as difficult as making original ones. Habituated to computer-generated imagery and video game narratives integrated into HD screens hung in most public places, one must push myriad frames of reference and significance out […]
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Chinese artists respond to Three Gorges Dam
Displacement: The Three Gorges Dam and Contemporary Chinese Art Nasher Museum of Art Through July 25 One of our basic human impulses is to record our experience, to leave traces for ourselves and others. Documentation of who we are and what we witness makes our days matter and wraps significance, if not a skin of […]