Artists
Harrison Haynes: Hard at Work
Durham-based artist/musician Harrison Haynes has been working hard this year. In addition to recording an album with his band Les Savy Fav, the artist has designed two album covers and collaborated with Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan.
William Cordova: Revolutionizing Vinyl
The event captured the imagination of many young people all over the U.S.; it influenced those who wanted to change the extreme climate of the day the best way they knew how, through music. Other fundraisers bringing together activists and musicians would soon radically revolutionize activism around the world. Examples that followed the April 24, 1970 fundraiser at the Apollo theater; the Mayday New Haven 8 Concert, the Concert for Bangladesh and the Concert for The People of Kampuchea, Live Aid, Farm Aid, etc.
Laurie Anderson: Expert
Laurie Anderson, supporting her newest record “Homeland,” appeared on Late Night with David Letterman recently. The artist added an extra verse about the BP oil spill in her exciting performance of “Only An Expert,” adding an even deeper and more contemporary political element to the incredibly mordant song.
Laurie Anderson: “mature artist”
Lou Reed on his wife, Laurie Anderson: “I think this record is the fruition of everything from her prior records and experiences and thoughts, they all came together in this one … She’s a mature artist. There’s a lot of things she can show you.”
Fatimah Tuggar: Replacing a lost work
Recently, Nigerian-born artist Fatimah Tuggar visited us at the Nasher Museum to talk about one of her sculptures that she must replace for the upcoming exhibition The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl. Several years ago, her work “Turntable” was lost somewhere between a museum and an airport in Belgium.
Huzzah for Uzzle
What the Nasher Museum advertised as a gallery talk by artist and photographer Burk Uzzle turned into a buzzing back-and-forth of happy energy between the artist and the crowd of about 60.
Burk Uzzle
Uzzle’s recent work is undoubtedly laden with regard for large blocks of color, geometric shapes and the tensions and harmonies explored between the two. Three of his photographs are on view now at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.
Dave Muller: top of our list
The top ten list is something of a cliche. Billboard charts, FBI most wanted–you name it and there’s probably a top 10 list for it. For years, David Letterman has offered up his own goofy Top 10 List on the Late Show. A Google search even turns up a list of Top Ten Urinals.
But artist Dave Muller turns an ordinary top 10 list into gorgeous, monumental works on paper.
KAL is a Nasher fan
By Danielle
Check out Kevin Kallaugher’s Sketchblog on his website at www.KALtoons.com. The groundbreaking political cartoonist blogged about his participation in a roundtable discussion at the Nasher Museum last week.
Some of KAL’s cartoons are on view in the exhibition “Lines of Attack: Conflict and Caricature.” On his April [...]