Art
Photo courtesy of Horse & Buggy Gallery
Painter Noah Saterstrom Raises the Dead at Horse & Buggy Press
On the walls of the Durham letterpress studio and gallery, forty-eight portraits of departed greats stare back with longing and restless energy. Read more
Jul. 11, 2019
photo courtesy of Pleiades Arts
Say Goodbye to Pleiades Arts. Say Hello to 5 Points Gallery.
The bad news of the impending closure of another Durham gallery is leavened by the good news that another, very similar gallery will replace it. Read more
Jul. 01, 2019
Photo by Jade Wilson for INDY Week
New Downtown Attraction Bull City Mini Combines Putt-Putt Fun and Bull City Pride
The mini-golf course opening tomorrow on the American Tobacco Campus is “by Durhamites, about Durham, and, really, for Durham." Read more
May 10, 2019
Photo by Lydia Bittner-Baird
The Avett Brothers Are Back! Well, One of Them. And It’s an Art Show?
The North Carolina Museum of Art announces the debut solo exhibition of paintings and prints by a founding member of our state’s famed Americana ambassadors. Read more
May 06, 2019
Pphotos courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of Art
Wim Botha Searches for the Secret Marks that Instill Classical Images with Agony and Power
Looking between the sculpture and the drawings, one can imagine Botha asking himself: “If I remove this line, or change its relationship to that line, is it still the Laocoön?” Read more
Apr. 24, 2019
Photo courtesy of the artists
The Intergalactic Patriarchy Exposed In Princess’s Intersectional Sci-fi Romp
In the year 2028, a pair of artistic collaborators use their white-male privilege to build a rocket ship and escape the misogynistic dystopia of Earth. Read more
Apr. 17, 2019
Raúl Martínez
How Does Latin-American Pop Art Complicate a Canon Dominated By North America?
If Pop in North America was a willing embrace of the merger between art and the market, Pop in Latin America would have a much more chilling meaning. Read more
Apr. 10, 2019
Photos courtesy of the Nasher
Lost in a Durham Barn for Fifty Years, Hugh Mangum's Photos Form a Vivid Portrait of the Jim Crow South
A trained hypnotist, Mangum seemed to have a hypnotic gift for making his subjects feel both candid and seen. His archive has just as hypnotic a grip on the present. Read more
Mar. 27, 2019
Photo courtesy of Reuben Javis Mabry
Meet the Next Wave of MFA-Bred Artists Without Setting Foot on Campus
UNC's art MFA and Duke’s MFA|EDA launch their thesis exhibits this week. Interestingly, none of them are in Chapel Hill. Read more
Mar. 20, 2019
