@NasherMuseum / no. 121 / October 28, 2014  --  (Archive)
There are many forms but few classics
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Miro MinuteEven if they don’t peak at an early age, most artists tend to do their best work sooner rather than later. But Spanish Catalan painter/sculptor Joan Miró was the rare exception.
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TASTE
Spanish Wine Tasting
SPANISH WINE TASTING / Thursday, October 30, 6-8 PM / Experience the perfect pairing of fine wines and great art. Free for same day Miró exhibition ticket holders over the age of 21 with proper ID.
WATCH
Pan's Labyrinth
FREE FILM: PAN'S LABYRINTH / Sunday, November 2, 2 PM / Pan’s Labyrinth (2006, directoer Guillermo del Toro, 118 minutes). Winner of three 2007 Academy Awards. Set in 1944 Spain with a fantasy world of Miró-like characters. Come early for brunch in the café or the public tour at 1 PM. View trailer
DIALOGUE
Gallery tour: Duke Couples in Dialogue on Rauschenberg and Artists in the Collection
GALLERY TOUR: DUKE COUPLES IN DIALOGUE ON RAUSCHENBERG AND ARTISTS IN THE COLLECTION / Thursday, November 6, 6 PM / Join two scholarly Duke couples on a casual, personal and fun tour of Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting. Curator Kristine Stiles asked each couple to select works of art in the exhibition and think about them as “conversations” with an enormous range of interpretation. Couples are Adrian Bejan, Duke’s J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Mary Riordan Bejan, a PhD in business and finance, along with Pamela Kachurin, Visiting Assistant Professor of Slavic and Eurasian at Duke, and Erik Zitser, Duke’s Librarian for Slavic and Eastern European Studies. Tours last about 45 minutes.
LEARN
Art with the Experts
ART WITH THE EXPERTS AT DURHAM COUNTY LIBRARY MAIN BRANCH / Monday, November 10, 7 PM / Join Marshall Price, Nancy Hanks Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and Juline Chevalier, Curator of Education, for a discussion and slide lecture on Miró: The Experience of Seeing.

This event is at the Durham County Library Main Branch, 300 N Roxboro St, Durham.
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PRESS / On KRCW’s “Art Talk,” Edward Goldman admires the Motley exhibition in L.A.: “The artistic reputation of Archibald Motley was undeniably connected with his paintings depicting joyful, crowded, explosive scenes, where everyone and everything is possessed by velvety sounds and syncopated jazz rhythms.” More.

IN THE STORE / Save online and when you visit the Nasher Museum Store. Nasher Museum Members enjoy a 10% discount in the store and cafe, and receive free, unlimited admission and special invitations and subscriptions to our mailings. Become a member! Join online, call 919-684-3411 or visit the museum information desk.

Banner: Photo by J Caldwell
WATCH, TASTE, TOUR, DIALOGUE, LEARN and SHOP photos by J Caldwell.
Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University.
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ON
TH (10/30) 6 PM Spanish Wine Tasting
SU (11/2) 2 PM Pan's Labyrinth
WE (11/5) 11 AM Book Discussion
TH (11/6) 11 AM Tour with your Tot
TH (11/6) 6 PM Gallery Tour
SU (11/9) 2 PM Book Discussion
MO (11/10) 7 PM Art with the Experts
Public Tours are Thursdays at 6 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. Learn more.
WATCH
UNC TV
Watch the 30-minute documentary produced by UNC-TV, in partnership with the Nasher Museum, on Miró: The Experience of Seeing.

Complete broadcast schedule.
TOUR
Tour with your Tot
Tour with your Tot
Thursday, November 6, 11 AM

Museum members and tots are free! Learn more.
READ
The Time of the Doves

To accompany the exhibition Miró: The Experience of Seeing, the museum is hosting a series of book discussions featuring contemporary Catalan authors. November's selection is The Time of the Doves by Mercè Rodoreda.

Wednesday, November 5, 11 AM, and Sunday, November 9, 2 PM, at the Nasher Museum. Visitors are encouraged to read the book prior to the discussions. The book is available for purchase in the  Nasher Museum Store.

SUPPORT
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VISIT
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Hours
Tue, Wed, Fri, Sat - 10 AM to 5 PM
Thu - 10 AM to 9 PM
Sun - Noon to 5 PM
Mon - closed
Admission
Admission to Miró: The Experience of Seeing

Members: 2 free tickets per adult member (additional tickets for 10% discount)
Adults: $12
Children 7 – 17: $6 / Children 6 and under: FREE
Seniors (65 and older): $10
Duke Faculty/Staff: $6 (limit 1 ticket per ID)
Duke University students: FREE (limit 1 ticket per ID)
Non-Duke Students: $8 (limit 1 ticket per ID)
Duke Alumni Association members with I.D.: $6
Active Duty Military and families (limit 6 tickets): $6

Miró: The Experience of Seeing are always available at the Nasher front desk. Purchase your tickets in person at the museum on the day of your visit.

Admission to Rauschenberg: Collecting & Connecting and the permanent collection:

5 Adults
$4 Seniors (65 and older)
$3 Non-Duke students with student ID


FREE ADMISSION FOR:
Nasher Museum members
Children 15 and under
Duke students, faculty and staff with DukeCard or Duke Medicine ID
Duke Alumni Assoc. Members with Alumni Membership Card
Every Thursday evening, 5-9 PM

Admission is also FREE to all active duty military personnel and up to five family members, with military ID: Geneva Convention common access card (CAC), a DD Form 1173 ID card, or a DD Form 1173-1 ID card.