Art
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
Photo courtesy of Artspace
Artist Julio Gonzalez Wants to Curb the Cultural Appropriation of Día de los Muertos
Gonzalez’s photo and video exhibit at Artspace, “Día de los Casi Muertos,” also includes a Día de los Muertos celebration on November 1. Read more
Oct. 29, 2019
Photo from the Collection of Eira Thomas/© Dana Claxton
Indigenous Artists Have Been Excluded from Modern Art. A Revelatory Nasher Exhibit Is Correcting the Canon.
Until recently, Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada were more likely to be represented as objects than as subjects in art contexts. Read more
Oct. 22, 2019
Photo courtesy of the artist
In Ephemeral Watercolors, Damian Stamer Finds the Secret Histories and Fading Futures of Rural Places
On view through November 2 at Craven Allen Gallery, Stamer's exhibit “Unseen” is a triumph of both technique and content. Read more
Oct. 15, 2019
Courtesy of the artist and East Wing Contemporary Gallery
Women Photographers from the Arab World Reframe Stereotypes at the Ackland
"She Who Tells a Story" ought to disabuse Western viewers of the notion that women from Iran and the Arab world lack agency and self-definition. Read more
Oct. 09, 2019
Photo courtesy of the artist
Marcelle Harwell Pachnowski Paints What She Hears. Just Don’t Call Her Work Abstract.
Pachnowski's exhibition "Visual Rhapsodies" is currently on view at the Page-Walker Arts and History Center in Cary. Read more
Sep. 24, 2019
Photo by Jade Wilson
To Stay True to Its Values, The Carrack Modern Art Had to Close. Here's Why That's a Triumph, Not a Tragedy.
Founder Laura Ritchie, director Saba Taj, and others discuss the ups, the downs, and the legacy of the lifeblood of the Durham art scene, whose energies will long outlast the space. Read more
Sep. 18, 2019
