NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

@NasherMuseum no. 286 / Solidary & Solitary

Bilingual Storytime – Thursday, February 8, 11 AM
Join museum staff and Durham County Library for a fun and exciting story read in English and Spanish and then make art! Free for kids ages 1-5 and their adult caregivers. Groups of eight or more must register in advance: nashered@duke.edu

Slow Art Tour – Saturday, February 10, 11 AM
Join Gallery Guide Maggie Griffin for a slower look at a single work of art in the Disorderly Conduct galleries.

Highlights Tour – Sunday, February 11, 2 PM
Gallery Guide Kati Henderson’s theme is “Love,” as a prelude to Valentine’s Day. 

Events are free with general admission. Free general admission for all children under 15.

Sketching in the Galleries with artist Tedd Anderson
Saturday, February 17, 10:15 AM-12:15 PM

Local artist Tedd Anderson will present a brief lesson and demonstration of ways to respond to art by sketching. Drawing materials will be provided.

Free with general admission.
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Exhibition Opening: Solidary & Solitary
10 AM – 9 PM: Exhibition opens (admission is free to all, every Thursday)
5:30 PM: Cash bar
6 PM: Storytelling in the Gallery
7 PM: Haiku in the Gallery

The Nasher Museum presents a major nationwide touring exhibition that offers a new perspective on the critical contribution that artists of African descent have made to the evolution of abstract art from 1940s to the present. Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection is the first large-scale public exhibition to bring together a lineage of visionary black artists. The exhibition begins in the mid-20th century with Abstract Expressionist Norman Lewis and traces a line to some of today’s most celebrated artists, including Mark Bradford, Theaster Gates, Lorna Simpson, Shinique Smith and more.

Solidary & Solitary  is supported by The Helis Foundation and organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art.

The Nasher Museum has acquired a significant painting by Nina Chanel Abney to help strengthen our fast-growing collection of modern and contemporary art. The original Nasher exhibition, Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush, will open at the Chicago Cultural Center this Saturday, February 10. This spring, Abney fans can find her at Duke as an artist in residence at the new Rubenstein Arts Center. Abney is a Nannerl O. Keohane Visiting Professor at Duke and UNC-Chapel Hill (February 19–March 5 and March 19–April 2).

February 2018 brings more cool news for fans of Barkley L. Hendricks. Here are three ways to celebrate this great American artist:

1. Buy the new hardcover reissue of Barkley Hendricks: Birth of the Cool, the exhibition catalogue published by the Nasher Museum on the occasion of the artist’s 2008 painting retrospective. 

2. Go to New York to see Barkley’s upcoming solo show, Them Changes (Feb. 15 – March 24, 2018) at  Jack Shainman Gallery in Chelsea.

3. Go to New Orleans for the closing weekend of Prospect.4, the citywide triennial exhibition organized by Nasher Museum Chief Curator Trevor Schoonmaker. At the New Orleans Museum of Art, 12 stunning portraits by Barkley L. Hendricks line the Great Hall.

                       

Mark Bradford, No Time to Expand the Sea, 2014. Courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.

Norman Lewis (1909–1979). Afternoon (detail), 1969. Oil on canvas; 72 x 88 in. (182.9 x 223.5 cm). © Estate of Norman W. Lewis; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY.

Nina Chanel Abney, Hobson’s Choice, 2017. Acrylic and spray paint on canvas, 84 1⁄4 x 120 3⁄16 x 1 15⁄16 inches. Collection of the Nasher Museum. Museum purchase. Image courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, New York. © Nina Chanel Abney.

Sketch courtesy Tedd Anderson. 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.

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