How Does Latin-American Pop Art Complicate a Canon Dominated By North America?
If Pop in North America was a willing embrace of the merger between art and the market, Pop in Latin America would have a much more chilling meaning.
View ArticleThe Avett Brothers Are Back! Well, One of Them. And It’s an Art Show?
The North Carolina Museum of Art announces the debut solo exhibition of paintings and prints by a founding member of our state’s famed Americana ambassadors.
View ArticleWestern Landscapes Concealed And Revealed In New Exhibit Way Out West
The Ackland's new exhibit consists of more than twenty paintings newly acquired from the collection of Hugh A. McAllister Jr. and almost sixty from the Ackland’s collection.
View ArticleFall Arts Preview: Five Museum Exhibits
From NCMA's highly anticipated Frida Kahlo exhibit to the Ackland's "She Who Tells a Story," we're ready to make some museum trips this fall.
View ArticleIndigenous Artists Have Been Excluded from Modern Art. A Revelatory Nasher...
Until recently, Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada were more likely to be represented as objects than as subjects in art contexts.
View ArticlePhotographer Emily Baxter Works in the Gap Between Crime and Conviction
In “We Are All Criminals,” one of her incarceration-related photo series on view at Arcana, Baxter focuses not on who's been convicted, but who hasn’t.
View ArticleBlack Girls and Women from Durham Visit Their Art Exhibit at the Met
The Beautiful Project recently took 14 girls to see themselves in "Pen, Lens & Soul: The Story of The Beautiful Project" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Visit with them via our photo journal.
View ArticleMeet the High Priestess of Polka Dots at the Ackland
Yayoi Kusama is renowned for her "infinity mirrors," but there's so much more to the artist than that, as "Open the Shape Called Love"—if not always intentionally—attests.
View ArticleThe Metal Magic of Jewelry and Design Titan Mary Ann Scherr
Scherr, who lived and taught in Raleigh, innovated with exotic materials, wearable tech, and "compassionate jewelry." A new exhibit at The Gregg tells her incredible story.
View ArticleEbony G. Patterson Drenches the Nasher in Mourning Glory
Unable to be contained by pedestal or frame, the artist's distinctively embellished vision spills all over the museum's walls in this immersive solo exhibit.
View ArticleBen Bridgers Is Vermeer with a "Thrasher" Subscription in "Back Burner"
Combining skate culture and old-master painting, Bridgers's exhibit is on view at Craven Allen Gallery, one of the first local galleries to reopen after COVID-19.
View Article“In Plain Sight” Honors the Storied History of a Long-Neglected Black Burial...
"Finding a cemetery is a form of activism, because it gives us an opportunity to reveal people who deserve our attention and who should be a part of the public memory."
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