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NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
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 Exhibition Opening/Gallery Tak - Courtside: Photographs by Bill Bambgerger
Friday, January 26
Cash bar: 5:30 PM
Gallery talk: 6 PM Join Durham artist Bill Bamberger and Duke undergraduate students for a talk about Courtside: Photographs by Bill Bamberger, which the students co-curated through a Curatorial Practicum class taught at the Nasher Museum, within The Collection Galleries. Free and open to all. More information.   Scholarly Talk: Gary Vikan
Thursday, January 25, 5:30 PM Medieval scholar Gary Vikan, former director of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, will give a talk in the Nasher Museum lecture hall. Free and open to all. Co-sponsored by Duke’s Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies.
 Museum as Laboratory: Neuroscience Research in the Public Sphere
Wednesday, January 31, 4:30 PM Duke Hospital Lecture Hall 2001, one floor above the main lobby of Duke University Hospital North
University of Houston engineering professor Jose Contreras-Vidal, Ph.D., and artist Dario Robleto will discuss their work in neuroaesthetics and their research that used mobile EEGs to track brain waves of museum visitors at The Menil Collection. More information.  Panel Discussion: “In Transit: Migration Around Europe"
Thursday, February 1, 5 PM Join us for a panel discussion exploring migration around Europe, through art and history. Speakers will include James Amelang (UA Madrid), Michael Gerli (UVA), Pierre-Olivier Dittmar (EHESS, Paris), Barthélémy Toguo (artist), Sarah Razza (Guggenheim Museum) and Laura Weigert (Rutgers). This panel and a related workshop are in preparation for the Fall 2018 Incubator exhibition: In Transit: Migration Around Europe. Free and open to the public.
 Artist Talk: Dario Robleto
Thursday, February 1, 7 PM The Nasher Museum is proud to present artist Dario Robleto’s performative lecture, “A Dream, As Faithful As A Flame,” a multi-media talk that considers early recordings of the human brain alongside artistic interpretations and wonderings. Robleto’s visit is supported by the Nasher’s Reflections program and a Bass Connections collaboration between the museum and the Duke Division of Geriatrics. The talk is free and open to all. More information.
 Grand Opening at "The Ruby"
Saturday, February 3, 1-4 PM Rubenstein Arts Center, 2020 Campus Drive. (Across the street from the Nasher) Please join the Nasher Museum to celebrate the grand opening of the Rubenstein Arts Center (the Ruby), a catalyst for creativity and a new home for making art at Duke. Start your day at the Nasher Museum Café for brunch, visit the free Ruby hot chocolate bar at the museum’s Anderson Street entrance, and head across Campus Drive for this special celebration! Designed with the arts in mind, the Ruby encompasses 10 multipurpose studios, the Duke programs in Dance and Arts of the Moving Image, a makerspace, the 200-seat von der Heyden Studio Theater, a film theater, student-run radio station WXDU-FM, and the Ruby Lounge. Stop in for performances by local Durham bands, student art and dance groups and algorithm-driven instruments by composer Scott Lindroth, Duke’s Vice Provost for the Arts; see a pop-up installation by Raleigh artist Bill Thelen and a Duke student art exhibition; make a screen print with Durham artist Bill Fick and DJs from WXDU; try 3D printing in the makerspace. Leading-edge Australian choreographer Antony Hamilton and sound artist and dancer Alisdair Macindoe will offer a sneak peek of MEETING, a Duke Performances show featuring music-making robots, the Duke Dance Program will offer workshops—and more!
Bill Bamberger, Church Playground, Kinihira, Rwanda, 2013. Inkjet print on archival paper. Courtesy of Bill Bamberger. © Bill Bamberger. 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. The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz. 2001 Campus Drive, Durham, NC 27705 (Map) | nasher.duke.edu | 919-684-5135 Visit Exhibitions Calendar Café Join Support © 2000-2018 Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Unauthorized use is prohibited |