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The Chicken
Our education department just had to share this original poem by a Durham Academy fourth-grader who visited “Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art.” We are utterly charmed!
The Magic of Calder
“Yes, there’s magic reflected in the eyes of the thousands of students who so far have filed through the Nasher Museum of Art’s featured exhibition, ‘Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy,’ writes the Herald-Sun’s Melody Butts. “But as a gallery guide explains the science behind the art, one observes wheels turning behind those gazes of wonderment.”
Nasher Museum Receives NEA Art Works Grant
The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University has received a $75,000 grant to work with local public elementary school teachers and their students on an art-infused language arts curriculum.
Why do you love the Nasher Museum?
“I love the Nasher because it always gets fantastic contemporary art exhibits, which makes this Art History master’s holder happy. I love Calder because of his sense of whimsy. Also, his circus, which I just saw (again) at the Whitney. Always a favorite!”
Duke’s Very Own Detective
Carla Antonaccio, Chair of Duke’s Classical Studies Department, is certainly more than just a scholar and an archaeologist. She’s a detective who has helped to prove that 16 ancient silver objects on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art were stolen property.
We’re never too old for field trips
One of the most important functions of the Academic Programs department at the Nasher Museum is also one of the least exciting tasks. Searching through ACES for courses for my own registration is incredibly stressful and I have come to dread the harrowing task. However, I found it oddly satisfying when I finished browsing through the entire course catalog in hopes of finding courses that might benefit from a trip to see an upcoming exhibition.
It’s Not Goodbye, It’s See You Later
This past year I have spent a lot of time at the Nasher Museum. I am a senior graduating in May and I am starting to come to terms with the fact that I won’t be going to the Nasher Museum four days a week anymore. I wanted to take some time to reflect on my experiences and give some advice to those who still have time to take advantage of all the museum has to offer. There are many things I learned this year about the museum, the programs and events it sponsors, and the opportunities it provides that I wish I had known before.
Calder: Five Things You Can’t Miss
Duke Today asked our own Sarah Schroth to pick her five favorite sculptures in the Calder exhibition. That’s like asking her to choose her favorite among five children!
She graciously obliged. Read more to find out which five she picked.
Dario Robleto: In defiance of war
Artist Dario Robleto thought about the photo for a long time.
In it, a World War I soldier lies in a muddy trench, his back to the dirt wall. He gazes directly into the camera, exhausted. Look a little closer, and you see his arm around a live tomato plant growing in the trench mud. Behind him, in the dirt, lie the bodies of unburied soldiers.
The soldier knows that he is nurturing a tomato plant on top of fallen men. He is protecting a bit of green life on a battlefield.
“It’s moments like that I’m drawn to as an artist, as a human,” Dario said, during a free talk at The Mint Museum in Charlotte on Tuesday.