NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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Last Chance to See The Enclave
Sunday, January 10 Don’t miss Richard Mosse’s The Enclave, an immersive 40-minute six-channel video installation shot in eastern Congo, on view through Sunday, January 10.
Nasher Reads: The Black Unicorn
Sunday, January 10, 2 PM and Wednesday, January 13, 11 AM
The museum will host two book discussions on The Black Unicorn authored by Audre Lorde.We encourage visitors to read the book before our discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.
Special Themed Tours: Double Your Pleasure (with 21c Museum Hotel)
Thursday, January 14, 6 PM and Friday, January 15, 5 PM Part one (1/14):
Tour of the Nasher Museum’s contemporary collection, Reality of My Surroundings, led by Jeff Bell, museum manager at 21c Museum Hotel Durham, and Jessica Ruhle, manager of public education at the Nasher Museum.
Part two (1/15): Tour of Seeing Now at 21c Museum Hotel Durham with Jessica Ruhle and Jeff Bell. Upcoming Tours
We have art for all ages and sensibilities in The Enclave, Reality of My Surroundings and The New Galleries.
Free Public Tours / Thursdays, 6 PM, Sundays, 2 PM / more details. Special Themed Tour / What is it made of? / Thursday, January 7, 6 PM / more details. Special Themed Tour / Funny Meeting You Here / Sunday, January 10, 2 PM / more details. Realize: Spoken Word with The Beast
Thursday, January 14, 8 PM The Nasher Museum presents a special spoken word event hosted by Pierce Freelon and The Beast, a Durham-based hip-hop group. The free performance is inspired by works of art in the Nasher Museum’s contemporary exhibition, Reality of My Surroundings. Doors open at 7:30 PM.
Wangechi Mutu, Family Tree (detail), 2012. One of 13 mixed-media collages on paper, 20 x 14 1/4 inches (50.8 x 36.2 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Museum purchase with additional funds provided by Trent Carmichael (T’88, P’17), Blake Byrne (T’57), Marjorie and Michael Levine (T’84, P’16, P’19, P’19), Stefanie and Douglas Kahn (P’11, P’13), and Christen and Derek Wilson (T’86, B’90, P’15); 2013.1.1.3. © Wangechi Mutu. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion. Hank Willis Thomas, Baron of the Crossroads (detail), 2012 Digital c-print and Plexiglas with Lumisty film Hank Willis Thomas in collaboration with Sanford Biggers. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Retrieved from 21c Museum Hotel http://www.21cmuseumhotels.com/. All other 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. Both murals by Odili Donald Odita are commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Both murals are made possible by the Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts and Council for the Arts Visiting Artist Program of Duke University; the Winifred Johnson Clive Foundation; and Elizabeth Hitchins Quigley and L. Matthew Quigley. Additional generous support is provided by Nasher Annual Fund donors. The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz. The presentation of Richard Mosse: The Enclave at the Nasher Museum is made possible by Trent Carmichael, Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr, Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan and Jonathan Pruzan, Caroline and Arthur Rogers, and Gail M.D. Belvett. 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705 (Map) | nasher.duke.edu | 919-684-5135 Visit Exhibitions Calendar Café Join Support © 2000-2016 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited |