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In Contemporary Showcase People Get Ready, The Nasher’s Progressive Vision Snaps into Blazing Focus

PEOPLE GET READY: BUILDING A CONTEMPORARY COLLECTION Sep. 1–Jan. 6 The Nasher Museum of Art, Durham www.nasher.duke.edu Created by Guatemalan artist Dario Escobar, who often turns sporting equipment into beautiful but unusable symbols, the silver surfboard stands more than six feet high. Its knobby floral embossing triggers a vivid memory of the faux-Colonial pewter tea […]