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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Carrack Modern Art Is Closing This Fall
Get ready to say goodbye to a Durham art-scene institution that, from its early days on Parrish Street to its last ones beside Golden Belt, showed us what “community” really means.