Artists
Work of the Week: The End of eating Everything by Wangechi Mutu
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University presents artist Wangechi Mutu’s first animated video, created in collaboration with recording artist Santigold and co-released by MOCAtv on YouTube. The 8-minute video, The End of eating Everything,marks the journey of a flying, planet-like creature navigating a bleak skyscape. This “sick planet” creature is lost in a polluted atmosphere, without grounding or roots, led by hunger towards its own destruction. The animation’s audio, also created by Mutu, fuses industrial and organic sounds.
Barkley L. Hendricks, Illusionist
Opening events can be crowded and loud, not the best time to take in a new art exhibition.
But the recent event for American artist Barkley L. Hendricks’s solo exhibition, Heart Hands Eyes Mind, at Jack Shainman Gallery was a party before the party started. The most dazzling and cool guests (14 of them, in nine new paintings) could only exist on a Barkley L. Hendricks canvas. The human party guests, fashionably late, were immediately drawn into the work on the walls.
It ain’t nuthin’ but a sandwich (Work of the Week)
We’ve had Nunna My Heros: After Barkley Hendricks’ ‘Icon for My Man Superman’, 1969 on view in our permanent collection gallery since January of this year, and the words at the top, “aint nuthin but a sandwich,” have been a mystery to me until this week.
Work of the Week: Lovely Six Foota by Mikalene Thomas
As the viewer looks at the photograph, the woman on the couch looks right back. While the viewer inquisitively studies her expression, the woman in Lovely Six Foota is not inquisitively studying anything. In fact, the she is assured, even defiant
Work of the Week: Jesus with Bat Under Glass, Florida by Burk Uzzle
Rather than movie-stars on red carpets, Burk Uzzle documents the ‘ordinary’ Americans that escape media attention, often in ironic ways. His photographs are a celebration of American weirdness; an unmasking of the idealism in our country to expose a fantastical landscape of scrap metal and jarred squirrels.
Work of the Week: Jimmy Carter II by Andy Warhol
by Lauren Budorick It was just Presidents’ Day, one of the myriad American holidays that few actually know how to observe. In honor of this occasion, we are featuring Jimmy Carter II by Andy Warhol as our work of the week. Warhol’s is amongst the hundred photographic works that are currently on [...]
Shiny Toy Guns
“Exposing the Gaze: Gender and Sexuality in Art” exhibition piece “Winter in America” by Hank Willis Thomas and Kambui Olujimi delivers shocking reminder of American race relations and American violence culture.
Work of the Week: Candy Cigarette by Sally Mann
It’s Valentine’s day and instead of a gift of a teddy bear holding a heart, a dozen roses or chalky hearts with messages on them, we are instead giving you an altogether different treat.
Necklace CNN
As I step foot into the Recent Acquisitions gallery in the Nasher Museum, I momentarily wonder if I am in the right room. Yes, I know the Nasher Museum has had some funky pieces in the Permanent Collection pavilion before, but as I stepped into the space this morning I was particularly struck by the enormous (what appeared to be) 8-foot tall gold chain necklace mounted on the wall.