Free Thursday Nights at the Nasher Museum
Great art, curator conversations, films, shopping, dining. Admission to the museum is free on Thursdays, 5-9 PM, made possible by SunTrust Bank and The Independent Weekly. All events are free and open to all. On most Thursday evenings, May through August, museum visitors and café diners can enjoy "Summer Days, Nasher Nights," a series of special programs at the Nasher Museum, including live music on the patio, dining with area personalities and leaders and guest chefs creating art-inspired menus. "Summer Days, Nasher Nights" is presented by Jewelsmith.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
First Thursday
5:30 PM Cash bar, 6 PM Gallery Talk
Anne Schroder, curator and academic program coordinator, leads a gallery tour of "Containing Antiquity."
Thursday, February 3, 2011
First Thursday
5:30 PM Cash bar, 6 PM Gallery talk.
Meet Sam Stephenson, curator and author of "The Jazz Loft Project: W. Eugene Smith in New York City, 1957-1965."
Thursday, February 17
6 -10 PM
Author Greil Marcus will give a talk followed by Art for All event celebrating Jazz Loft with live music, a free photobooth and more. Light refreshments and cash bar.
Thursday, March 3, 2011
First Thursday
5:30 PM Cash bar, 6 PM Gallery talk
Sarah Schroth, Nancy Hanks Senior Curator, leads a tour of Spanish artist Jaume Plensa's "The Heart of Trees" installation on the Nasher Museum's front lawn.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
7 PM Lecture:
Photography archivist and historian William Johnson on W. Eugene Smith.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
First Thursday
5:30 PM Cash bar 6 PM Gallery talk
Trevor Schoonmaker, Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art, will lead a gallery talk about "Building the Contemporary Collection: Five Years of Acquisitions."
Followed by Art for All event, 7-10 PM. Celebrate current exhibitions with live entertainment, light refreshments and cash bar.
Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Mary D.B.T. Semans and the late James H. Semans, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, North Carolina Arts Council, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University, and the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art.
