News + Events
Collecting Matisse with UNC-TV
This past weekend, a crew from the public television network UNC-TV, with Executive Producer Scott Davis, visited the Nasher Museum to film in the galleries. The 30-minute HDTV documentary will air numerous times throughout North Carolina, starting Thanksgiving week.
Bad Ass
In this video, South Central Los Angeles native and contemporary artist Mark Bradford discusses the meaning of the term “bad ass”, and how his painting of the same name was made.
Time Capsule: Keith Haring
When you first think about art collectors, do bar mitzvah age boys come to mind? No, not for most people. But, to Duke alum (T ’91), Jason Rubell, there seemed no better way to spend birthday or holiday money as a young teen than to purchase art. Living in a decade of phenomenal contemporary art growth, Rubell spent eight years assembling what would serendipitously become his senior project in 1990 — A Duke Student Collects: Contemporary Art from Jason Rubell. Twenty-one years later, the impressive conglomerate of over eighty works of art returns to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University as Time Capsule, Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell.
Parakeets
Congratulations to Nasher Summer intern Danya Devine’s. Her watercolor Parakeets was recently selected for the 2012 Duke Children’s Hospital All-Occasion Cards! The press conference with Honorary Chairman Duke’s Coach K is November 7 at 10 AM at Duke Children’s Hospital. . Danya is a senior at Jordan High School and Parakeets was her first final project that she did with watercolor.
Interview with Jason Rubell
You might think that the title of the exhibition — “Time Capsule Age 13 to 21: The Contemporary Art Collection of Jason Rubell” — can’t be right, that a collection of contemporary art featuring artists like Keith Haring, Jenny Holzer, Sol LeWitt and Francesco Clemente couldn’t have been compiled by a kid between the ages of 13 and 21, but that’s exactly what this exhibition is.
Summer Days, Nasher Nights
My Thursday evenings are spent in the company of new friends. Whether enjoying a glass of wine and Art Scrabble, taking in Dinner and a Movie or exploring new cuisines from guest chefs, which we lovingly refer to as Gourmet Innovators, I am always meeting new people and having wonderful experiences.
Doing The Record Exhibition, Miami-Style
I recently had the great fortune to see the The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl exhibition at the Miami Museum of Art [with a vinyl-loving companion]. It was thrilling to see the pieces in an entirely new gallery space. We ricocheted from piece to piece and I excitedly showed and explained the works that I’d especially loved from the Nasher Museum show. [I had an] intense interaction with Kimura’s work that did not happen in Durham; it was totally unique to the Miami Museum of Art exhibition. It made me wonder how much of my focus on one piece over another in my frequent museum forays is influenced by the choices made by the curator, rather than the work itself?
The Stories Between
Becoming’s greatest power is its ability to invite viewers to examine their own personal and shared histories that exist within and across cultural spaces – both the epic histories and the small in between. As David Deitcher observes, “One knows one’s past through pictures – through looking at and identifying with photographs that relate, however indirectly to one’s lived experience.” -Stacke
Third Friday Durham
June’s Third Friday Durham offers a last chance to catch the Calder show at the Nasher, movies in Central Park, music at LabourLove and openings galore. That mix is what Durham’s often like- a big name or two, some DIY brilliance, and a sense of “if you build it, someone will show up and love what you’ve done”.