Looking Out
Miami connection
By Wendy Right about now, contemporary art lovers are booking flights and hotels for the wild frenzy that is Art Basel Miami Beach. If you’re going this December, be sure to check out the Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection. Each year, Dennis and Debra Scholl invite a guest curator to [...]
Fall is For Art Lovers – A Museum Round-Up
By Teka Apart from the seasonal apple cider and donuts, the thing I love most about this time of year is the seemingly endless visual feast – not only from the beautiful fall color here in North Carolina, but also in art spaces across the country. It seems that as [...]
The Saga of the Rose Continues – Brandeis President Resigns
By Teka The Boston Globe reported on Friday that Brandeis University’s embattled president, Jehuda Reinharz, has resigned. In a move that many find to be slightly disingenuous, Reinharz makes no mention of the Rose Museum debacle as having anything to do with his decision to step down. As the Globe [...]
Reblog from Furturity.org : Decoding Art’s DNA
By Teka Have you been to furturity.org yet? This awesome site – focused on news from the country’s top research universities – was pointed out to me by the Nasher’s own Rebecca Swartz. She directed me to their social/cultural area and a pretty interesting post about researchers from Northwestern University [...]
Yo La Tengo at the Carolina Theater This Friday!
By Teka Turns out that there’s no need to settle for streaming Yo La Tengo’s new album, Popular Songs, on-line. The band, who are in a mutual fan club with artist Dario Robleto, will perform live and in-person this Friday, 9/18 at 8pm at the Carolina Theater. Tickets are still [...]
New NCMA Website
By Teka The North Carolina Museum of Art has a new website to go with its soon-to-be new digs. The site is focused on what’s happening in the interim between the museum’s recent temporary closing and the unveiling of the new building in April 2010. As the site notes, the [...]
Jerstin Crosby: If You Build It We Will Burn It
By Teka Nasher Blogs own Jerstin Crosby just opened a new show at Lump gallery/projects in Raleigh, “If You Build It We Will Burn It.” According to the press release, In these works, Crosby lists among his references conceptual starting points such as vegetarianism, environmental extremism, 80′s sitcoms, TV commercials, [...]
Via Artnet – Babelgum Art Prize
Just a quick reblog for those video artists in the Triangle, via artnet.com: NEW ART PRIZE FOR VIDEO ARTISTS The video website Babelgum, a YouTube competitor, has launched three new cash prizes for video artists, two for $5,000 and one for $20,000 with a jury that boasts movie star Isabella [...]
August 12: National Vinyl Record Day
By Wendy How about this for a national holiday? Vinyl Record Day! The folks behind Vinyl Record Day want Americans to set aside August 12th to commemorate “the date Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877″ (although my quick Internet search did not quite confirm this fact). Their goals: preserve [...]