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Latino/a Studies 10 Year Anniversary Conference: Richard Rodriguez
Thursday, March 22, 4:30–6 PM

Prominent public intellectual and memoirist Richard Rodriguez will deliver the keynote address for “Latino/a Cultural and Intellectual Life in the 21st Century” (22-23 March 2018), a conference celebrating 10 years of Latino/a Studies at Duke University.  More information.

Noon at the Nasher with artist Martha Clippinger
Friday, March 23, Noon

Join Durham artist Martha Clippinger for a 30-minute lunchtime gallery tour within Solidary & Solitary.

“Her use of hothouse colors and repeated geometric shapes adds a further zing to her work.”
—Hyperallergic.com

Art with the Experts at Durham North Regional Library Branch
Monday, March 26, 7 PM

Join us at Durham County Library’s North Regional Library Branch, 221 Milton Rd., Durham. Photographer Bill Bamberger will give a free discussion and slide lecture of his work in the exhibition Courtside: Photographs by Bill Bamberger.

Exhibition Opening – John Akomfrah: Precarity
Thursday, March 29 (times below)

The Nasher Museum presents the major exhibition, John Akomfrah: Precarity, a new three-channel video installation created by John Akomfrah, the London-based artist and filmmaker.

5:30 PM Cash bar
6 PM Free Highlights Tour
5:30–6:30 PM Performance by Art of Cool All-Star Band, led by Al Strong
7 PM Directors Series: Free talk by Franklin Sirmans, director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami

General admission is free all day Thursday, 10 AM – 9 PM.

Directors Series: Franklin Sirmans
Thursday, March 29 (time above)

10 AM Exhibition Opens -- John Akomfrah: Precarity 
5:30 PM Cash Bar
6 PM Free Highlights Tour
5:30–6:30 PM The Art of Cool All-Star Band, led by Al Strong, performs a wide array of exciting selections from the early jazz repertoire of New Orleans, to complement the exhibition John Akomfrah: Precarity

7 PM Directors Series: Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami, will give a talk on “Miami’s Art Museum.” Since he became director of PAMM in fall 2015, Sirmans has implemented a distinct approach, mixing scholarship and education and building upon the museum’s history since its origins in 1984. More about Sirmans. General admission is free all day Thursday, 10 AM – 9 PM!

Our audio postcard offers vignettes and bits of sound from Prospect.4, the fourth iteration of a citywide triennial in New Orleans, Louisiana. Soundcloud.

PARLIAMENT at Duke: A Pioneering Work of Situational Choreography by choreographer and artist Michael Kliën of Duke’s Dance Program. YouTube.

                       

John Akomfrah, Precarity (still), 2017. Three-channel HD video (color, sound), 46:03 minutes. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. Gift of the artist and Smoking Dogs Films. Commissioned by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University with funds provided by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Acquisitions, the VIA Art Fund, and the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation; 2018.3.1. Still courtesy of Smoking Dog Films, London, United Kingdom. © John Akomfrah.

Solidary & Solitary: The Joyner/Giuffrida Collection is presented by The Helis Foundation and organized by the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Baltimore Museum of Art.



Contributing sponsorship is provided by The Lambent Foundation and The Holt Family Foundation.

At the Nasher Museum, this exhibition is made possible by the Nancy A. Nasher and David J. Haemisegger Family Fund for Exhibitions; Ann Chanler and Andrew Scheman; Katie Thorpe Kerr and Terrance I. R. Kerr; Lisa Lowenthal Pruzan and Jonathan Pruzan; and Gail Belvett.

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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