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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.
A view from the trenches
My time at the Nasher Museum, both during the spring seminar and my summer internship, has given me a new appreciation of ancient material culture. Prior to this experience, I would always focus on single, stellar pieces in an exhibition and pay little attention to the rest of the objects. Now I have a new perspective: I want to look at a museum with a range of views, working my way from the smallest details rarely noticed by anyone other than a conservator, to the objects in their entirety, to the groupings and their meaning, to the exhibition and its intention as a whole, and finally to the museum itself.
The reality of art
Tonight is the premiere of “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” a competition among 19 visual artists to be crowned … um, well, winner of the show. The winner gets a sizable cash prize and an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York.
Audio guides in the making
One of the really exciting things about contemporary art is talking to the artists who created it. It’s fascinating to hear about their creative process, what they hope visitors will get out of their work and their memories about vinyl records.
Vinyl nostalgia
I close my eyes and let his voice wash through me and I know that I was right: My father was an imperfect man, but he was not a monster. And more important, in the glide and glow of his golden voice, I sense that even before I was born, he loved the very idea of me.
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.
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.
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.