by Claire Finch on September 3, 2009
Our excitement about the Nasher Museum’s future exhibition The Record, slate for Aug. 2010, just skyrocketed with the announcement of a partial list of featured artists. An effort of the museum’s Curator for Contemporary Art Trevor Schoonmaker, the show will explore the record’s unique cultural and artistic role.
Check out the artists that made the list:
Laurie Anderson [...]
by Jessie Tang on June 15, 2009
The Nasher Museum is keeping its selection fresh throughout the summer. In addition to Christian Marclay’s visually stimulating Video Quartet, the on-campus art space will also be host 80 original photographs from Duke’s Special Collections Library. The showcase highlights the photographic process from the 19th century to the modern, and a large chunk of the [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on December 20, 2008
As mentioned earlier, Harrison Haynes and Casey Cook took to the street-front windows of Branch Gallery Outpost to perform “LRLL RLRR” for two hours Friday night. The event served as a sort-of capstone to Cook’s Boom Boom Crash, which closes tonight.
The performance drew attention to a lot of aspects of drumming that usually go unnoticed, accomplishing [...]
by Andrew Hibbard on December 20, 2008
The Triangle played host to plenty of great music events in 2008, drawing names like the Silver Jews, Wilco, Bon Iver, Fleet Foxes and Spoon. But there was also a rich local music scene. Unranked but in chronological order, here are some of 2008’s best moments in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill area.
The Dodos & Megafaun at [...]