GENIUS AND GRACE: FRANÇOIS BOUCHER AND THE GENERATION OF 1700 Ackland Art Museum 101 S. Columbia St., Chapel Hill 919-966-5736 www.ackland.org Through April 5AREA 919: ARTISTS IN THE TRIANGLE The Nasher Museum of Art 2001 Campus Dr., Durham 919-684-5135 www.nasher.duke.edu Through April 12 All art is, in some way, about art itself. You can enjoy […]
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With Approaching Ali, the story of how the boxer inspired a struggling writer, the North Carolina Opera fights above its weight class
North Carolina Opera’s Approaching Ali Thursday, Jan. 29, 7 p.m., $23.40 Carolina Theatre 309 W. Morgan St., Durham 919-792-3850, ncopera.org Saturday, Jan. 31, 7 p.m., $23.42 Enloe Magnet High School 128 Clarendon Crescent, Raleigh 919-792-3850, ncopera.org Muhammad Ali begins to chant. Two versions of the writer Davis Millerone, a scrawny, bullied boy; the other, a […]
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Pleiades puts artists on the guest list; Eno River mural returns (sort of); Liberty Arts foundry reignites
Last week I received an email from a cat litter manufacturer, praising me for being a part of its “cat litter community.” Yes, the kinship I feel with other buyers of my preferred brand buoys my spirit each time my cats soil the litter box. But while marketers slowly suck the word dry, “community” still […]
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104 ears at the time, David Lang’s The Whisper Opera recalibrates attention
The Whisper Opera David Lang & International Contemporary Ensemble Friday–Saturday, Jan. 16–17, 7 & 9 p.m. $10-$36, Reynolds Industries Theater 125 Science Dr., Durham 919-660-3356 dukeperformances.duke.edu You can barely hear David Lang’s The Whisper Opera, delivered as it is in near-silent singing that you must be within feet to detect. To compensate for the quiet, […]
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Year in review: In Triangle visual arts, 2014 was the year of the contractor
As soon as you walk into Flanders Gallery at its new location next to Lump, you can tell the game has changed. Since 2009, Flanders’ spacious, immaculate home in Raleigh’s warehouse district made it feel like an art space in New York or Chicago. But it moved out in November because of development around the […]
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Dance review: Justin Tornow’s COMPANY gets territorial in The Weights
COMPANY: The Weights The Carrack Modern Art, Durham Sunday, Dec. 14 “Site-specific” is a watered-down term. Plenty of choreographers and installation artists pay it lip service, dragging a hand along a wall or hauling a bunch of stuff into a room and claiming to be engaging with the space. But when I sit on my […]
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Pink Martini adds a different spirit to customary Christmas music
A Pink Martini Christmas Pink Martini with the N.C. Symphony Friday, Dec. 19, 8 p.m. & Saturday, Dec. 20, 3 & 8 p.m. $30–$94 Meymandi Concert Hall, Raleigh, 2 E. South St. 919-733-2750 ncsymphony.org Call it Holiday Music Syndrome, or perhaps Holiday Music Assault: You’re standing in line at a store, waiting for a beleaguered […]
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Nathaniel Mackey discusses the relationship between athletics and poetry
This week, we published a profile of Duke professor Nathaniel Mackey, one of the leading experimental lyric poets in the country, if not he world. We couldn’t fit in the following fascinating thoughts from Mackey on how the athletic activities of his school years may or may not influence his poetry, so we wanted to […]
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Famed lyric poet Nathaniel Mackey unites modernism, jazz and poets near and far
Nathaniel Mackey is a major force in contemporary poetryinternationally, yes, but particularly in the Triangle. Ask his students, who follow his lead to mix poetry and criticism in a way that makes academia relevant to everyday life. Ask local poets who’ve hung out with him over drinks at Durham’s Surf Club on Friday evenings, talking […]
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Social dynamics and heightened ambitions power DIDA dances by Justin Tornow and Tommy Noonan
COMPANY: THE WEIGHTSSaturday, Dec. 13, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sunday, Dec. 14, 6 p.m., $15 TOMMY NOONAN AND CLINT LUTES: BROTHER BROTHER Thursday, Dec. 18–Friday, Dec. 19, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Dec. 20, 5 and 8 p.m., $10 The Carrack Modern Art111 W. Parrish St., Durham704-213-6666www.thecarrack.org, www.didaseason.com Concentrating, Justin Tornow twists in her chair. As […]