Posts Tagged ‘Robin Rhode’
Inspiration, on display
By Wendy We are all inspired by today’s special Museums section in The New York Times. Especially page 20! It’s not surprising that the photo editor chose the image above to represent our upcoming exhibition, a group show including work by 33 artists called “The Record: Contemporary Art & Vinyl,” [...]
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 [...]
Mingering Mike’s dream
By Wendy Mingering Mike is a mysterious guy. He lived in an imaginary world in his bedroom in the 1970s, like a lot of teenagers. In Mingering Mike’s world, he was a famous R&B singer, producing dozens of albums. He painstakingly created those albums out of cardboard and paper, drawing [...]
Warhol grant funds ‘The Record’
By Wendy The Nasher Museum is benefiting yet again from the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The exhibition “Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids,” on view through Feb. 21, came together because of gifts of Warhol photographs from the foundation. And we recently learned that the [...]
Dispatches: Robin Rhode
With Dispatches, every now and then we check in with artists connected with the Nasher Museum to find out about their most recent projects. Nasher Museum fans will remember our 2007 exhibition “Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode,” organized by Trevor Schoonmaker, curator of contemporary art. Robin [...]
We love vinyl
and we are so excited for the exhibition we’re putting together here at the Nasher next year. It’s called THE RECORD and is organized by Trevor Schoonmaker, our curator of contemporary art and will run from August 19, 2010, through February 6, 2011. The Record will bring together artists from [...]
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 [...]