Some years back, actor Jordan Smith became acquainted with Ronald Ribman’s 1976 work Cold Storage, a Dramatists Guild Award-winning play in which two very different men find themselves together on the rooftop garden of a hospital, where one is being treated for cancer, the other in for tests. It spoke to Smith–one of the roles […]
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Before I moved to the area a few years back, the majority of my research on my home-to-be was conducted online, where a couple of painless minutes on Yahoo! yielded an invaluable resource in Arts Carolina. This University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill site gave considerable ease to the often arduous process of finding […]
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Please do touch the art!
In a classroom nestled into a corner of the North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA), Cynthia Dopko has just unlocked a supply cabinet–the same kind of supply cabinet that businesses employ to hold letterhead, pens, and memo pads; the same kind that rests against back walls of garages everywhere to house half-full paint cans and […]
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Artist Henry Isaacs has gained international acclaim for his visual interpretations of the great outdoors. Setting up his easel on tropical island Edens, climbing or skiing to discover hidden mountain views, exploring American deserts or European coasts, or simply absorbing the beauty of a friend’s garden, Isaacs continues to mine the indefatigable possibilities of plain-air […]
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Weaving down the curling path that leads to Ginger Young’s front door, you get a good idea of what awaits you beyond the threshold. Crocodiles and dogs carved from knotty trees silently bark as you pass, wrens and titmice roost in multi-colored birdhouses, and paintings of a lumpy figure pointing a sharpened finger swear “god […]
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Sometimes when skulking doggedly around unfamiliar exhibitions or navigating the architecture of galleries novel to me, my espying eye is caught and captured by a photograph from a distance and I know, in my gut, that this work is The One. But though I’ve been pulled by its gravity, I tend to play hard to […]
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Adventures in art
Vacations are plotted and planned each summer with painstaking deliberation, ensuring that we make the very utmost out of our precious few moments of leisure time–do we opt to shop? sun? dine? drink? dance? Trips can be tailored to any indulged interest or unfulfilled desire; we can while away our days and nights golfing, swimming […]
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Last week’s open artist hanging at CAM brought aspiring and established creative types to exhibit their works in a festive free-for-all juicy with possibility and fulfillment. Edgy works brimming with technique by conservatory grads hung adjacent to pleasant landscapes by puttering hobbyists, and a few feet of wall space was even occupied by simple drawings […]
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Pride of leadership
A photograph currently hanging in the Porch Gallery of the Center for Documentary Studies depicts a troop of residents of TROSA (Triangle Residential Options for Substance Abusers) gathered around the refurbished cars they will receive upon graduation. People stand tall next to their vehicles, heads erect and spines straight, proud and maybe a bit stunned […]
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Since the United States Postal Service has seen fit to honor Andy Warhol with a stamp bearing his “Self-Portrait, 1964” (long before he’d taken to the white-haired fright wig fashion that became his trademark, and probably the most innocuous work dear Andy ever turned out), you’ve the opportunity to catch a glimpse of pop art […]