Posts Tagged ‘Kara Walker’
Trevor’s Top Ten: Art Basel Miami Beach 2012
The hunt for great art was on for Trevor Schoonmaker at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012.
Bordering on obsession
By Wendy When we find a contemporary artist whose work we love, it’s pretty exciting. We want to get to know the artist’s history and try to see everything they’re making now. Here in New York during Armory week, it’s like looking for faces of friends in a huge crowd. [...]
Glenn Ligon: spelling it out
The words “negro sunshine” will stretch 22 feet across the front of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, starting March 10.
A smaller version, about five feet wide, will be spelled out in backlit, black-painted neon letters in a gallery at the Nasher Museum, in an exhibition opening March 10. A week later, another edition of this work of art, made by New York artist Glenn Ligon, will be on view at the North Carolina Museum of Art. Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not.
Something for everyone at the Armory Show
By Wendy NEW YORK — The Armory Show is the place to find some of the best and most current contemporary art. Our little Nasher Museum contingent attended the VIP opening yesterday (“vernissage”), and while we were hungry for art, we each had a slightly different agenda. Duke alumnus Mike [...]
3 Things: Kara Walker
Introducing 3 Things, where every now and then we’ll ask an artist who has worked with the Nasher Museum to tell us three things they’re listening to, working on, looking at, reading, or just thinking about. Kara Walker is an artist based in New York, well known for her films, [...]