Looking Out
Keep an open mind about the Rose
In general, I feel we have to oppose sales very vigorously but not overstep ourselves by opposing all arrangements that realize value in other ways. It depends on many things.
Celebrate the new N.C. Museum of Art this weekend
The grand reopening of the newly expanded North Carolina Museum of Art is Saturday and Sunday. Reserve your free tickets here. Some of us at the Nasher Museum took a field trip to Raleigh recently to check out the new building designed by New York-based architects Thomas Phifer and Partners. We were thrilled!
Art Bark
By Wendy
Navigating New York has been stress free all week, thanks to a lifesaver called HopStop, bookmarked on my phone. HopStop has taken me to five art museums, the Armory and ADAA art fairs and a bunch of Chelsea galleries without getting lost once. I type in my location and [...]
New York City: Nasher connections
By Wendy
I landed at LaGuardia yesterday and made a beeline for the Museum of Modern Art.
Six floors in two and a half hours before closing time? No problem!
I found old faves (”Christina’s World” by Andrew Wyeth) and new delights (a caterpillar-like hybrid vehicle by Yin Xiuzhen). One of the fun [...]
New media and techology
By Danielle
By midday on Friday, UNC was buzzing with spring campus activity. This was the first time that I had ventured off Franklin Street on to the camus in my four years in the Triangle; obviously I was lost at a college at least three times the [...]
Artists Unite For Haiti
By Dr. J Caldwell
One of the newest art galleries in the area, The LoDi Project on N. Blount Street, Raleigh, has put out a call for local artists to create art for a benefit for Haiti. Owner Georges Le Chevallier’s cousin Gerard Le Chevallier worked in Haiti during the earthquake [...]
Third Friday, first rate
By Molly Leutz
I love the idea of the art walk, the art crawl, the art gallop. However you maneuver it, the art walk feels like an important flag staked in the landscape of a city or a neighborhood, claiming cultural cred. But while I love the idea of the art [...]
Miami, bring it on!
By Wendy
After three days at Art Basel Miami Beach, Kim Rorschach’s feet are buzzing.
The director of the Nasher Museum is in Miami taking in the annual spectacle, along with Trevor Schoonmaker, curator of contemporary art and tens of thousands of art dealers and collectors, artists and other museum people.
“We’re tired [...]
Miami connection
By Wendy
Right about now, contemporary art lovers are booking flights and hotels for the wild frenzy that is Art Basel Miami Beach.
If you’re going this December, be sure to check out the Dennis and Debra Scholl Collection.
Each year, Dennis and Debra Scholl invite a guest curator to peruse their fantastic [...]