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Summer Beer Tasting with Mutual and the Nasher Museum Café
Thursday, July 27, 6-8 PM

Treat yourself to a summer sampling of some delicious local craft beers at the Nasher Museum Café! Tickets for the tasting will be $7 per guest and include a $5 off coupon for a full dinner in the café. You can also purchase your favorite beer from the tasting at a discounted price to pair with your meal. If you’re interested in attending please call 919-684-6032, or reserve online.

Live and Local: Music and Brunch in the Café
Sunday, July 30, Noon-3 PM

Enjoy live music by Maria Hernandez and Steve Luteman from High Clouds and a brunch menu featuring local ingredients. Free for café patrons.

Make reservations online or call 919-684-6032.

August Bicycle Mural Tour!
Saturday, August 5, 10–11:30 PM

Explore the beautiful murals of downtown Durham by bicycle with tours co-organized by Preservation Durham, the Museum of Durham History and the Nasher Museum. Approximately 13 murals will be featured, including Time Bridge by Odili Donald Odita at the Downtown Durham YMCA, a work of art commissioned by the Nasher Museum. Learn more on muraldurham.com

We miss artist Barkley L. Hendricks very much! Critics are gushing over his paintings in the group exhibition Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power at Tate Modern, London, on view through October 22. Read more.

Here at the Nasher, don’t miss a pop-up installation of six works by Barkley, within The Collection Galleriesand on view through July 30.

Chief Curator Trevor Schoonmaker wrote an essay about Barkley for Artforum magazine’s Passages.

                       

Bicycle Mural Tour photos courtesy Ruth Caccavale.

Barkley L. Hendricks, Icon for My Man Superman (Superman never saved any black people – Bobby Seale), (detail) 1969. Oil , acrylic and aluminum leaf on linen canvas, 59 ½ x 48 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, NY.

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.

The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz.

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