NASHER MUSEUM OF ART AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

@NasherMuseum no. 275 / Sotheby's Prize

Inflamed by Faith: "Carlo Dolci and the Everyday Sacred"
Thursday, November 16, 6 PM

Join us for a gallery talk by Bishop Will Willimon, a bishop in the United Methodist Church who served as Dean of Duke Chapel and professor of Christian ministry at Duke for 20 years. Free with a ticket to The Medici’s Painter. Free to all members.

Sketching in the Galleries with artist Scott Renk
Saturday, Novevember 18, 10 AM

Local artist Scott Renk will present a brief lesson and demonstration of ways to respond to art by sketching. Drawing materials will be provided.

Free with admission. Members get free admission. Not a member? Join today.

Reflections Public Tour (It's not too late to sign up!)
Tuesday, Novevember 21, 10:30 AM and 1:30 PM

These special tours offer people who live with memory loss and their families the chance to enjoy and discuss art. Tours may include an art making activity or live music in the galleries. Free parking passes are available. Individual reservations: email reflections@duke.edu or call 919-684-8816.

Read more about the museum's Reflections program in Walter Magazine.

Teen Meetup: Mapping Bull City
Thursday, November 16, 5-7 PM

All area teens are invited to our Nasher Teen Meetups. This session is called Mapping Bull City. Join Nasher Staff and artist Bill Fick of Supergraphic Labs in an exploration of  A Portrait of Venice: Jacopo de’ Barbari’s View of Venice.   Make lino-print maps of the Bull City, both real and imagined. Please register in advance.

Duke Professor Esther Gabara (left), curator of Pop América, 1965-1975, accepted the Sotheby’s Prize on behalf of the Nasher Museum at a recent awards ceremony in New York City, with Richard Aste, director of the McNay Art Museum. The Nasher Museum is deeply honored and incredibly grateful to be the co-recipient of the inaugural Sotheby’s Prize in recognition of curatorial excellence for Pop América, 1965-1975, opening in October 2018 at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, which is partnering with the Nasher Museum to stage the exhibition, before opening at the Nasher in February, 2019.

The museum is closed Thursday, November 26, but will be open normal business hours for the rest of the long weekend. Bring family, friends and out-of-town guests to enjoy great art and architecture, shopping and dining!

                       

Sketch courtesy Scott Renk.

Sotheby's Prize photo courtesy of Sotheby’s and Harrison Epstein/HIE Photography. .

Photos by J Caldwell.

The Secret Life of Pets, 2016 publicity still.

Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, the late Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, the late Frank E. Hanscom III, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the Courtney Shives Art Museum Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Janine and J. Tomilson Hill Family Fund, the Trent A. Carmichael Fund for Community Education, the Neely Family Fund, the E. T. Rollins, Jr. and Frances P. Rollins Fund for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Gibby and Michael B. Waitzkin Fund, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, the Nasher Museum of Art General Endowment, the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University.

The Collection Galleries is made possible by Nasher Annual Fund donors with special support from Anita and John Schwarz.

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