Take a Deep Dive into the Nasher Museum Archives
Welcome to our favorite gems from the Nasher Museum’s archives! Here are special videos, articles and podcast episodes featuring artists who have visited the museum and whose work is part of our collection. Here, too, are some of our “greatest hits” among reviews in the arts press over the past 15 years. Dig in and enjoy!
American Dance Festival Co-Presents Mark Haim at the Nasher Museum
The Great Hall became an exciting backdrop for “This Land Is Your Land” by Seattle choreographer and distinguished American Dance Festival faculty member Mark Haim in summer 2013. With a dynamic country music s...
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Southern Accent: The Necessity of a Show Like This
Before the exhibition, Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art opened in September...
view article on WATCH VIDEO INTERVIEW | Published December 16, 2016
reVERSE–gesture–reVIEWed
The Nasher Museum invited faculty to respond to Kara Walker’s Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated), a portfolio of offset l...
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Art, Activism, Race and the Law
Listen to the cross-disciplinary panel hosted by the Nasher Museum and inspired by themes from the 2017 exhibition Nina Chanel Abney: Royal...
Duration 67m 34s Published
Collecting and Presenting Work by Artists of African Descent
This video documents a lively and critical conversation, “Collecting and Presenting Work by Artists of African Descent,” hosted by the Nasher Museum on February 11, 2016. The panel was moderated by Richard J. Powell, John ...
by Nasher Museum Duration 50m 44s Published
The Modern Art Notes Podcast featuring artist Ebony G. Patterson and art historian Shaina Larrivee
Duration 66m15s Published
Annual Rothschild Lecture: Amy Sherald
by Nasher Museum at Duke University Duration 31m 33s Published
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
by Nasher Museum Duration 06m 01s Published
A Lesser-Known Modernism Inspired by African-American Culture
"I don’t know how museums plot their seasons, but it was a good plan to have 'Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist' be the first career retrospective to appear at the Whitney Museum’s new home." — Holland Cotter
view article on The New York Times | Published October 01, 2015
First Artist Residency: Satch Hoyt
Satch Hoyt, an artist and musician based in Berlin, produced a monumental new sculptural work during a weeklong residency in September 2009 with the Nasher Museum. Working in the Liberty Arts warehouse near downtown Durham...
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Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey
by Nasher Museum Duration 03m 48s Published
Museums Depart From the Obvious
"... Wangechi Mutu, a young artist born in East Africa, blends ethnicity, sexuality and colonialism in her fantastically inventive collages, seen at the Brooklyn Museum ..." —Holland Cotter
view article on The New York Times | Published September 04, 2013
UNC-TV Documentary on Miró
UNC-TV, in partnership with the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, produced a 30-minute documentary in 2014 on the special ticketed exhibition
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Award-Winning Catalogue: Nina Chanel Abney
The Nasher Museum published a richly illustrated, full-color catalogue on the occasion of the traveling exhibition Nina Chanel Abney: Royal...
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Archibald Motley: A Stroll part I
by Nasher Museum Duration 3m 27s Published
Archibald Motley: A Stroll part II
by Nasher Museum Duration 03m 07s Published