Exhibitions

This exhibition features paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from the Nasher Museum’s permanent collection, including works by Albrecht Dürer, Vicente Carducho, François Gérard, Daniel Seghers and others. Covering five centuries of art history and a range of styles and themes, these works illustrate the technical proficiency of Old Master… MORE

Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey will be the first survey of Mutu’s work in the United States, and the most comprehensive and experimental show to date for this internationally-renowned multidisciplinary artist.… MORE

Containing Antiquity highlights the great variety of vessels–storage jars, perfume bottles, serving bowls and drinking cups–made and used in the ancient Greek cultural sphere throughout the Mediterranean region, and the decoration and function of these containers. These qualities demonstrate both the unity and the diversity of Greek culture and the… MORE

The Nasher Museum presents an installation of important contemporary art  that reflects an ongoing focus on global, emerging artists of African descent. The installation, all recent gifts and purchases for the permanent collection, includes paintings, works on paper and sculpture. Artists include William Cordova, Barkley L. Hendricks, Robert Pruitt, Dario… MORE

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On view in the Mary D.B.T. Semans Great Hall
Three important modern sculptures are on view in the Nasher Museum’s Great Hall, on loan from the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. A 1974 work by John Chamberlain (1927-2011) is a prime example of his use of twisted, welded and compressed… MORE

Internationally known for her wealth and style, American heiress and philanthropist Doris Duke amassed one of the nation’s most important private collections of Islamic art over a period of more than 50 years beginning in 1935. Shangri La, her private residence outside Honolulu,  melds modern architecture, tropical landscape, and art… MORE

Lines of Control: Partition as a Productive Space explores the creation and maintenance of borders, both physical as well as psychological, through the works of artists primarily from South Asia. These artists focus on the idea of partition as a productive space–where nations are made through forging new identities and… MORE

The Nasher Museum presents the first sustained examination of the remarkable paintings of Archibald John Motley, Jr. (1891-1981), a master colorist and radical interpreter of urban culture. Motley has captured worldwide attention with his brilliant yet idiosyncratic paintings known for rainbow-hued, syncopated composition. For the first time, this exhibition introduces… MORE

This exhibition, comprised of over 100 works from across the history of the photographic medium and drawn from North Carolina collections, reveals how photographers use techniques to persuade us of their vision. Real understanding of photographic media suffers from the long-standing myth that the camera is an “innocent eye” that… MORE

With an eclectic array of mediums and genres, this installation reveals the many ways artists working from the late 19th century to the present have experimented with the pleasures, hostilities and politics of spectatorship. This exhibition was curated by Duke professor Kimberly Lamm and her students in the Women’s Studies… MORE

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