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Fundreds are fun at Family Day and Golden Belt
By Wendy
Instead of Benjamin Franklin, draw your own face, your pet dog, your favorite superhero, the meanest monster you can imagine. Make up a new country, pick your own colors–design your own $100 bill.
That’s a quick introduction to the Fundred Dollar Bill Project, a national art project [...]
Wii Love Arts.
“Wii Love Arts.” By Michael Schmidt & Christian Hermann; Published by Kehrer Verlag
Review by Renee M. Cagnina Haynes, Curatorial Assistant
Last week, my husband and I went to a Nasher member event to listen to Trevor Schoonmaker, Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher, give an in depth tour of the [...]
See it for Yourself
“See it for Yourself” is a series of short videos of recent visitors to the Nasher Museum.
It’s not easy to describe a work of art, or put into words exactly why we love a particular work.
“See it for Yourself” was created to give a sense of the connections people [...]
Viewing Art through the Eyes of a Child
by Maria La Paz Topp
When I walked into the Nasher Museum last Sunday I was greeted by a sea of red, orange, green and purple shirts, sweeping across the floor in almost perfectly synchronized movements. A blond boy in a red shirt caught my eye. With his eyes fixed intently [...]
The Nasher Student Advisory Board Wants You!
By Teka
Calling all Duke students, tomorrow at 5pm (3/6) is the deadline for applications to serve on the Nasher Student Advisory Board.
Via the Nasher website, the NSAB does the following:
- plans one large party each semester
- plans smaller, more casual, Art for All events approximately once a month
- partners with [...]
A Welcoming Geometry
By Wendy
Four big museums in two days. Whoo! A holiday trip with my family to Washington, D.C., had me thinking about how museums are sometimes not very welcoming places. A museum’s main reason for existing is to share collections with visitors, right? But cavernous entrances, long lines and tired staffers [...]
Secretary of the Arts and A New Blog… at the White House?
By Teka
For those of us who like to journey through cyberspace in blog exploration, today we have a new destination to visit – the White House blog.
At around noon today, President Obama’s administration launched a new website, complete with a blog. Given the recent calls for a ’secretary of the [...]
Everyone is an artist, even bears.
by Juline Chevalier
Complete this sentence:
Everyone is a(n) _______________ .When we asked visitors to fill in the blank at the Nasher on Sunday, Jan. 18, during Family Day, we got some great answers. Some examples:
Everyone is a musician.
Everyone is a teacher.
Everyone is a dancer (in training.)
Everyone is a part of earth.
Endowments Fall, Museums Slash Budgets – Artnet.com
Thought I would take a minute to post this recent article Artnet News, which talks a little about how the financial crisis is affecting the budgets of some major national museums. Challenging times for development staff, to be sure!
-Teka
ENDOWMENTS FALL, MUSEUMS SLASH BUDGETS
-By Walter Robinson
The Art Newspaper speculates [...]