Dario Robleto
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Upcoming Tours
Gallery Talk with Conservator Ruth Cox
Thursday, January 21, 6 PM
“Restoring the Beecher Portrait,” with art conservator Ruth Cox on Francis Bicknell Carpenter’s 1858 portrait of Henry Ward Beecher, repaired extensively for The New Galleries.

We offer Free Public Tours on Thursdays at 6 PM and Sundays at 2 PM. More details.

Special Themed Tour / Unsolved Mysteries at the Nasher Museum / Sunday, January 31, 2 PM

Free Family Day
Free Family Day
Sunday, January 24, Noon - 4 PM
Do not miss this incredible Family Day with renowned korist and percussionist from Senegal, Diali Cissokho. He will perform "African Beat — Hear the History!"
 
The Nasher will also present for the first time, the new African Touch Collection, a variety of African works of art representing a range of cultures and object types. Lean more about Free Family Day.

Art with the Experts
Art with the Experts: The New Galleries
Monday, January 25, 7 PM
Join Marianne Wardle, Head of Education & Interpretation, for a slide lecture on the antiquities on view in The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light.

This event takes place at the Durham Public Library, Southwest Branch, 3605 Shannon Road, Durham

Pirate Party
Gallery Talk with Duke Students: Paul and Damon McCarthy's Pirate Party
Wednesday, January 27, 4:30 PM Reception / 5 PM Gallery Talk
Join Duke student curators for a gallery talk on Full Exposure: Paul and Damon McCarthy’s Pirate Party. Learn about this exhibition of photographs in the Incubator, part of The New Galleries.

Nasher Teens
#NasherTeens

Are you a Durham high school student interested in museums? Meeting artists and making art?

Apply online to become a Nasher Teen at the Nasher Museum and make your voice heard in the museum and community. Plus, eat free food and earn volunteer hours! Applications are due to Emily Perreault by January 30. http://nasher.duke.edu/teens/


Shirin Neshat
Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Donates Prints by Artist Shirin Neshat to Thirty-three Top Colleges and Universities for Educational Use
The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation has donated two limited-edition prints by Iranian artist Shirin Neshat to the Nasher Museum and 32 other universities around the world. The prints (above) are from the artist's series Our House is On Fire. Learn more.

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Dario Robleto, Lamb of Man / Atom and Eve / Americana Materia Medica (detail), 2006-2007. Colored paper, cardboard, ribbon, foamcore, glue, willow, acid-free archival paper, and UV plexi; 60 x 185 x 8 inches (152.4 x 469.9 x 20.3 cm) overall. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Museum purchase with additional funds provided by Dr. Peter H. Klopfer, the children of Marilyn M. Segal in her honor, and the bequest of Viola Mitchell Fearnside, by exchange; 2009.1.1. © Dario Robleto. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Henry Ward Beecher (detail), 1858. Oil on canvas, 34 x 27 inches (86.4 x 68.6 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Gift of T.S. Peterson, 1971.4.1. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

François Gérard, French, Clytemnestra Receiving the News of Iphigenia's Impending Sacrifice (detail), 1787. Oil on canvas, 30 1/2 x 38 1/4 inches (77.5 x 97.2 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. Museum purchase, 2002.31.1. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy, Pirate Party Photograph Portfolio, 2005. One of 79 color photographs, edition 5/10, 20 x 13 1/4 inches (50.8 x 33.7 cm) each. Nasher Museum of Art. Promised gift of Blake Byrne, T'57; L.4.2007.23.26. © Paul McCarthy and Damon McCarthy. Image courtesy of the artists and Hauser & Wirth, New York.

Shirin Neshat, Ghada, 2013. Digital pigment print, edition 14/50, 26 x 17 1/2 inches (66 x 44.5 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2016.2.2. © Shirin Neshat. Image courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

Shirin Neshat, Sayed, 2013. Digital pigment print, edition 14/50, 26 x 17 1/2 inches (66 x 44.5 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Gift of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, 2016.2.1. © Shirin Neshat. Image courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.

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.

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