Looking Out
The Saga of the Rose Continues – Brandeis President Resigns
By Teka
The Boston Globe reported on Friday that Brandeis University’s embattled president, Jehuda Reinharz, has resigned. In a move that many find to be slightly disingenuous, Reinharz makes no mention of the Rose Museum debacle as having anything to do with his decision to step down. As the Globe reports:
Reinharz, [...]
Reblog from Furturity.org : Decoding Art’s DNA
By Teka
Have you been to furturity.org yet? This awesome site – focused on news from the country’s top research universities – was pointed out to me by the Nasher’s own Rebecca Swartz. She directed me to their social/cultural area and a pretty interesting post about researchers from Northwestern [...]
Yo La Tengo at the Carolina Theater This Friday!
By Teka
Turns out that there’s no need to settle for streaming Yo La Tengo’s new album, Popular Songs, on-line. The band, who are in a mutual fan club with artist Dario Robleto, will perform live and in-person this Friday, 9/18 at 8pm at the Carolina Theater. Tickets are [...]
New NCMA Website
By Teka
The North Carolina Museum of Art has a new website to go with its soon-to-be new digs. The site is focused on what’s happening in the interim between the museum’s recent temporary closing and the unveiling of the new building in April 2010.
As the site notes, the new building [...]
Jerstin Crosby: If You Build It We Will Burn It
By Teka
Nasher Blogs own Jerstin Crosby just opened a new show at Lump gallery/projects in Raleigh, “If You Build It We Will Burn It.”
According to the press release,
In these works, Crosby lists among his references conceptual starting points such as vegetarianism, environmental extremism, 80’s sitcoms, TV commercials, local news [...]
Via Artnet – Babelgum Art Prize
Just a quick reblog for those video artists in the Triangle, via artnet.com:
NEW ART PRIZE FOR VIDEO ARTISTS
The video website Babelgum, a YouTube competitor, has launched three new cash prizes for video artists, two for $5,000 and one for $20,000 with a jury that boasts movie star Isabella Rossellini as [...]
August 12: National Vinyl Record Day
By Wendy
How about this for a national holiday? Vinyl Record Day!
The folks behind Vinyl Record Day want Americans to set aside August 12th to commemorate “the date Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877″ (although my quick Internet search did not quite confirm this fact). Their goals: preserve the cultural [...]
Treehouses: Nasher, Cassilhaus & Kangaroo Valley
By Jonathan Blackwell
I recently returned from a retreat in the Kangaroo Valley, two and a half hours southwest of Sydney. It was an amazing place, the Kangaroo Valley Bush Retreat. We were at the top of a ridge, nestled in wind-swept trees overlooking the lush green valley below.
Upon [...]
My Weird America
By Wendy
For me, Independence Day is a low-key affair.
A few sparklers, a hot dog and I’m good. Flag waving makes me slightly queasy.
Recently, however, I saw three exhibitions that nudged me toward thinking about my country’s birthday with a more open mind.
Shepard Fairey’s famous portrait of Barack Obama, part of [...]