Art
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Photographer Emily Baxter Works in the Gap Between Crime and Conviction
In “We Are All Criminals,” one of her incarceration-related photo series on view at Arcana, Baxter focuses not on who's been convicted, but who hasn’t. Read more
Jan. 13, 2020
photo courtesy of the Gregg Museum
At the Crossroads of Art and Biotech, a Warning: Be Careful What You Wish For.
The Gregg Museum's "Art's Work in the Age of Biotechnology: Shaping Our Genetic Futures" is less concerned with answering big questions than in finding head-spinning new ways to ask them. Read more
Jan. 13, 2020
photo courtesy of the Ackland
The Strange Immortality of Henrietta Lacks
In "Project LHAXX" at the Ackland, an Afrofuturist art collective invents a new language for a true story of science, consent, and survival. Read more
Jan. 08, 2020
photo courtesy of NCMA
There’s Still Time to See the Frida Kahlo Exhibit at NCMA
The exhibit has been extended through January 26 with special weekend hours. Read more
Jan. 06, 2020
photo courtesy of DHIC
Make Your Mark on the New Willard Street Apartments
The city and its partners are seeking proposals for a permanent public-art project to give the new affordable-housing complex that certain Durham flair. Read more
Jan. 02, 2020
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Even When Censored, Jade Wilson's "Trigger Warning" Refuses to Play It Safe
The Golden Belt exhibit, which has a reception and portrait party tonight, boldly yet subtly captures the painful experiences that people of color and queer folks face. Read more
Dec. 20, 2019
photo by Ron Shanahan
From "The Beatles" to "Scooby-Doo," Ron Campbell Animated the Golden Age of Saturday-Morning Cartoons
If you've watched cartoons at all in the last fifty years, you've likely seen Campbell's work, which he's bringing to Studio 71 in Hillsborough for three days this weekend. Read more
Dec. 03, 2019
Jade Wilson
Queer Beauty Is Everywhere in the Artwork of Lump’s Conner Calhoun
Calhoun's Lump exhibit, "Whispers from Wizard Mountain," playfully and personally explores everything from illuminated manuscripts to the gay wizards of pop culture. Read more
Dec. 03, 2019
photo courtesy of NCMA
It's Frida Kahlo Like You've Always Seen Her at NCMA
"Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism" underscores the sad fate of Kahlo’s legacy as an iconoclastic proto-feminist painter whose image has come to overshadow her politically confrontational, albeit deeply personal, self-portraits. Read more
Nov. 12, 2019
