Every documentary film is a journey, just not always across four continents. But that’s the arduous path that married filmmaking team Elisabeth Haviland James and Revere La Noue are taking to shoot Overland, a feature-length film about the ancient art of falconry, or hunting with birds of prey. Tracing the spread of the 6,000-year-old tradition, […]
Chris Vitiello
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Five great local visual art shows of 2015
The Triangle visual art scene continued its modernization of recent years in 2015, with the emergence of agile new spaces like Raleigh’s Pink Building and Chapel Hill’s L.O.G., renovations at Duke’s Nasher Museum of Art (it turned 10 this year as Raleigh gallery Lump turned an astounding 20) and UNC-Chapel Hill’s Ackland Art Museum, and […]
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Berlin and Durham connect in two audacious dance pieces, What Doesn’t Work and La Mula, at the Carrack Modern Art
ANJA MÜLLER Dec. 17–18, 8 p.m., $15 TOMMY NOONAN AND MURIELLE ELIZÉON Dec. 19, 8 p.m.–Dec. 20, 3 p.m., $15 The Carrack Modern Art 111 W. Parrish St., Durham 919-294-8605www.thecarrack.org For the Carrack Modern Art, it’s a great way to fill the gallery in a fallow holiday week. But for dance artists Tommy Noonan, Murielle […]
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Artistic influence as a genetic concern in current exhibits where parents collaborate with their kids
CARRIE ALTER AND MAX MCMICHAELS: CROSSING THE LINES Artspace 201 E. Davie St., Raleigh 919-821-2787 www.artspacenc.org Through Dec. 26 DAN GOTTLIEB: MOVING PICTURES/FIGURE AND FOREST IRIS GOTTLIEB: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MANDIBLE Craven Allen Gallery 1106 Broad St., Durham 919-286-4837 www.cravenallengallery.com Through Jan. 9 When artists become parents, they must figure out how the two roles relate. […]
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Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno is weird, funny and educational on the science of animal sex
ISABELLA ROSSELLINI: GREEN PORNO Saturday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m. $34–$54 Carolina Theatre 309 W. Morgan St., Durham 919-560-3030 www.carolinatheatre.org There’s dark comedy in the violent end of praying mantis intercourse, fascination in frustratingly mismatched duck genitalia, a titillating joy in the knowledge that dolphins do oraland blowhole. In her stage show, Green Porno, prolific screen […]
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New magazine Scalawag aims to tell the South’s untold stories
Scalawag‘s first-year celebration The Power Plant at American Tobacco Campus Saturday, Dec. 5, 8 p.m. free www.scalawagmag.org If you heard federal legislators shouting overtop one another about Hillary Clinton’s emails last month, you might believe that American political discourse is completely broken. But that’s only true if we let it be, say the editors of […]
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Indies Arts Awards: Hopscotch’s Greg Lowenhagen and Art of Cool Fest’s Cicely Mitchell prove the Triangle’s viability for innovative music festivals
2015 WinnersGreg Lowenhagen and Cicely MitchellEmil KangKym RegisterDasan AhanuChris Tonelli Previous winners Servers push tables together for the Sunday brunch crowd at downtown Durham’s Beyù Caffè. Andrew Berenson is banging out Thelonious Monk on the piano. Cicely Mitchell is describing how the Art of Cool Fest, which she co-founded, has transformed from a cool idea […]
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Think you know Leonardo da Vinci? Reconsider the original Renaissance man through one of his notebooks at the North Carolina Museum of Art
When we spoke with Nasher Museum of Art director Sarah Schroth for the museum’s 10th anniversary, she noted that, while she loves contemporary art, it doesn’t speak to everyone. That’s one reason she wanted to mount El Greco to Velázquez: Art During the Reign of Philip III, which paid off: It remains the Nasher’s most […]
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Subversive beauty turns contemplative in the modern butoh of Sankai Juku
SANKAI JUKU Friday, Nov. 6 8 p.m. $10–$49 Memorial Hall at UNC 114 E. Cameron Ave., Chapel Hill 919-843-3333 www.carolinaperformingarts.org Semi-spoiler alert: Do not arrive late for the butoh company Sankai Juku’s Umusuna: Memories Before History this week at Carolina Performing Arts. Its opening image is one you might never forget. Here’s a hintit involves […]
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Dance review: The Department of Improvised Dance puts props through the paces in Stations
The Department of Improvised Dance: Stations Saturday, Oct. 10, 2015 Durable Durham Warehouse When the set is cluttered with props, you can expect the performance to be weighted toward the “theater” side of dance theater. That was the case in The Department of Improvised Dance’s new show, Stations, last weekend, which also kicked off Durham […]