Director Bernardo Ruiz captures the fragility and fortitude of those whose work is contingent on nature’s benevolence.
Julie M. Hamilton
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Full Frame: A North Carolina Sanctuary Does the Word Justice in Santuario
The locally produced documentary follows Juana Luz Tobar Ortega, an undocumented Guatemalan grandmother seeking safety from deportation in a Greensboro church.
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Art Unlocks the Mysteries of the Brain in the Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Eighty drawings by the Spanish neuroscientist are on display at the Ackland, offering a unique vantage into the intersection art and science.
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Collect Calling: The Ups and Downs of Collecting Art, Writ Large at the Ackland
Birthday Presents, an exhibit of philanthropic gifts to the Ackland Art Musuem, runs through January.
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Mona Kuhn Turns Flat Photos into an Immersive Environment in the Click! Photography Festival
Kuhn’s opening at The Fruit and keynote talk at The Ruby are both this week.
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Bob Trotman’s Larger-Than-Life, Sometimes Automated Sculptures of Bosses and Office Workers Expose the Vices Behind a Signal American Virtue
BOB TROTMAN: BUSINESS AS USUAL Through Sunday, July 8 Gregg Museum of Art & Design, Raleigh www.gregg.arts.ncsu.edu Walking into the Gregg Museum of Art & Design at N.C. State University, the first thing you see is a massive white man’s head suspended from the ceiling. Furrowed brows frame his beady eyes and veins protrude at […]
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Full Frame: The Price of Everything Is a Nuanced Indictment of Art’s Relationship to Money
The Price of Everything★★★★½Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Durham I had been waiting for this documentary for almost ten years. In the early 2010s, I was an art history graduate student working at a mid-level gallery in New York’s Chelsea scene, wanting to experience the world of contemporary art firsthand. I was certainly in for […]
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The Same Footage, Treated as Fiction by Terrence Malick and as Fact by Eugene Richards, Forms a Complete Picture of Faith and Filmmaking
Eugene Richards’s new documentary, Thy Kingdom Come, is one of several films at Full Frame that engage with religious questions. Its origins lie in director Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder, an experimental film that weaves together stories that demonstrate memory’s witness to loveboth divine and humanamid rural and urban landscapes. Drawing on Richards’s background as […]