Picture Hillsborough: Folk Art by Sam Ezell The Orange County Historical Museum 201 N. Churton St., Hillsborough Through September 25 Self-taught painter Sam Ezell portrays the buildings of Hillsborough with optimism and idealism. He paints some of the historic 18th-century buildings the town is known for, but he also paints local businesses including Latta Brothers […]
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Visual Art Exchange gathers dozens of regional views in SCOPE: The Southern Landscape
SCOPE: THE SOUTHERN LANDSCAPE Visual Art Exchange 309 W. Martin St., Raleigh 919-828-7834 www.visualartexchange.org Through June 25 As the great landscape scholar J.B. Jackson wrote, “Each age sees the world in its own manner and has its own notion of beauty; each of them rediscovers the landscape.” In this year’s SCOPE: The Southern Landscapean annual […]
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Director’s Cut and Allison Hunter’s Zoosphere survey developments in image-making at the North Carolina Museum of Art
DIRECTOR’S CUT | ZOOSPHERE North Carolina Museum of Art 2110 Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh 919-839-6262 www.ncartmuseum.org Both through Sept. 13 In DIRECTOR’S CUT: RECENT PHOTOGRAPHY GIFTS TO THE NCMA, 23 photographs and two series by 20 artists offer a chance to reflect on recent developments in photographyand how they affect our engagement with scenes and […]
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The Baker collection at NCMA shows the best of the mid-20th century
A Discerning Eye: Julian T. Baker Jr. Photography Collection Julian T. Baker Jr. Gallery North Carolina Museum of Art Through Dec. 2 Photography wasn’t always accepted to be the fine art it is today. It’s easy to lose sight of this as photography retrospectives fill major museums and most of us now carry cameras in […]
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Chris Bradley finds creative opportunities in the simplest of objects in Close One at CAM Raleigh
Close One Chris Bradley CAM Raleigh Through May 28 John Cage, quoting Zen, once said, “If something is boring after two minutes try it for four. If it is still boring try it for eight, 16, 32, and so on. Eventually one discovers that it’s not boring at all but very interesting.” A shared sense […]
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The ordinary becomes exceptional in The Spectacular of Vernacular at the Ackland
The Spectacular of Vernacular Ackland Art Museum Through March 18 Critic and theorist Maurice Blanchot wrote the following about the everyday in 1969, saying that it is “what is most difficult to discover.” This elusive quality about the things and places that we see and experience every day extends to the vernacular. Definitions of vernacular […]
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Two new shows at Visual Art Exchange
The White Show Through Oct. 27 christian.ryan: pleasureware + speculative bodies Through Oct. 22 Visual Art Exchange White is a place where many artists begin: a white piece of paper, a white gessoed canvas. It can also be used as a radical gesture, as demonstrated by Kazimir Malevich with his 1918 painting “White on White.” […]