Father & Son: Creativity Across Two Generations Through Feb. 12 Through This Lens Gallery Looking at Lowell Handler’s The Vanishing: Photographs from a Small Midwestern Town, currently on display at Through This Lens, one appreciates the documentary photograph’s sociological value. The work focuses on one declining hamlet, Madison, Mo. Housing a current population of 518, […]
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The decaying universe and fervent obsessions of Bill Thelen
minor character Bill Thelen Through Oct. 27 Branch Gallery 401C Foster St., Durham 918-1116, www.branchgallery.com If you stroll north of Elmo’s Diner through the semi-bustle of Durham’s Ninth Street, the pretense that you’re enjoying a promenade during a sleepy siesta will evaporate. It is at this precise location, the place where street life goes to […]
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Landscape and memory: Luke Powell and Pamela Pecchio
In Defiance of History: Afghanistan 1973-2003 Photographs by Luke Powell Through Sept. 18 Through This Lens Gallery 303 E. Chapel Hill St., Durham 687-0250, www.throughthislens.com Last year, in a thrift shop, I unearthed a stack of old 8mm filmshome movies, apparently, each labeled with a location and date in thick permanent marker script. Watching them, […]
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What lies beneath
No rules. No lifeguard. No swimsuit. You’ll want to keep the noise down since you don’t know who’s around and whether they’ll want to run you off. Something primal surfaces into your psyche and your heart shifts gears when a big pit viper water moccasin swims by. You’re alert and full of sauce, gratified to […]
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Pipe dreams
Paul Friedrich did an excellent job curating DesignBox Gallery’s current exhibition Low Pop, The South’s Greatest Cartoonists. Actually, he’s outdone himselfthe contributions of Adam Cohen, Greg Clayton, Jodi Hoover and especially Emily Cash overpower his own headlining Onion Head Monster paintings. Onion Head Monster, a frenzied concoction of Dada attitude, low-brow humor and gutter-punk aesthetics, […]
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Bodies … The Exhibition
Much media attention has been given to German anatomist Gunther von Hagens’ traveling road show Körperwelten (Body Worlds), where bodies preserved by a polymer infusing technique called plastination are exhibited in various stages of dissection. Despite questions about the legality and ethics of how the corpses were obtained, the show was an international success and […]
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Of time and Charleen
See also: Ten years after | Friend or Coe? | Of time and Charleen | Strange fruit | Capsule reviews On the telephone from his office in Boston, Ross McElwee sounds excited about being able to attend next week’s Full Frame. “What keeps coming back to me is the really good films I’ve seen for […]
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Renowned documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman is busier than ever
Frederick Wiseman is one of America’s greatest documentary makers. That he seems less well-known than such peers as Albert Maysles (Grey Gardens), Errol Morris (The Fog of War) and Barbara Kopple (Harlan County, U.S.A.) is principally due to his never having had a huge theatrical success. One factor is this: His movies are sometimes extraordinarily […]
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Audacious canvases by Beverly McIver in three Triangle galleries
Beverly McIver: Raising Renee and Other Themes NCCU Art Museum, Durham Through April 20 Info: 530-6211 Beverly McIver: Recent Paintings Tyndall Galleries, Chapel Hill Through March 31 Info: [email protected], 942-2290 African-American Woman Artists: A to Z Works by Beverly McIver & Beverly Buchanan Through April 15 Hayti Heritage Center, Durham Info: 683-1709, www.hayti.org Looking at […]
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Black Panthers and Young Lords at UNC, and Nelson Mandela’s paintings in Durham
Radicals in Black and Brown: Palante, People’s Power, and Common Cause in the Black Panthers and the Young Lords Organization, now on display at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History at UNC, is a rich exhibit packed with photographs, documentary films and artifacts from the age of American radicalism, when the […]
