The INDY’s 21 Most Impactful Stories of 2021
From our breaking reporting on Durham’s COVID hotel to our feature on Pioneers Durham—and all the feral cats, contaminated water, affordable housing, and the challenges facing the restaurant industry that have come in between—revisit 2021 with us.
The Uneasy Immortality of Henrietta Lacks: An Afrofuturist Parable
“Project LHAXX” is the inspiration for a virtual festival at The Ackland Art Museum this weekend.
Meet the High Priestess of Polka Dots at the Ackland
Yayoi Kusama is renowned for her “infinity mirrors,” but there’s so much more to the artist than that, as “Open the Shape Called Love”—if not always intentionally—attests.
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.
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.
Fall Arts Preview: Five Museum Exhibits
From NCMA’s highly anticipated Frida Kahlo exhibit to the Ackland’s “She Who Tells a Story,” we’re ready to make some museum trips this fall.
Western Landscapes Concealed And Revealed In New Exhibit Way Out West
The Ackland’s new exhibit consists of more than twenty paintings newly acquired from the collection of Hugh A. McAllister Jr. and almost sixty from the Ackland’s collection.

