Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
I am thrilled by the Nasher's willingness and fearlessness to experiment and constantly rethink and push what it means to be a museum and develop exhibitions. I'm excited to join a team that's reflecting and looking forward and really thinking deeply about the historical impact of the work that it does in relationship to our sociocultural moment and our futures.
Xuxa Rodríguez, newly named Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art (Photo by Kat Wilson)
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: Behold
Modern Prophets: Art and Spirituality in America
Love & Anarchy
Hung Liu: Living Memory
Art of Peru
pov: in my nasher teen era
Spectrum News 1 Features Family Day
Rakan DiarBakerli, K-12 and Family Programs Educator, tells Spectrum News 1 reporter Jatrissa Wooten how families enjoyed making art from recycled materials with the Scrap Exchange and meeting an owl, a hawk and a turtle from the Piedmont Wildlife Center.
Bank of America Gift to Nasher Museum Saves Painting from “Dustbin of History”
Bank of America has committed $100,000 to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to restore a masterpiece by the late artist Elizabeth Murray. She was part of a generation of abstract painters in New York City during the 1970s and ‘80s that was experimenting with a new formal language. Her painting Bob, after a yearlong conservation effort, will be on public view at the Nasher for the first time in 45 years. “We believe we saved this painting from the dustbin of history. It had been out of the public eye for a very long time. We have a chance to give it a second life.” — Chief Curator Marshall N. Price
How Small Work Joys Add Brightness to Duke Workdays
Each Monday, when the Nasher Museum of Art is closed to visitors, Database Manager Aaron Zalonis grabs a feather duster and a delicate cloth for cleaning camera lenses and walks from his second-floor office to the museum’s quiet galleries. Photo by Stephen Schramm.
In María Magdalena Campos-Pons’ Behold Shared Identity Is a Source of Communal Power
An exhibition like Behold should be “a place for mediation,” Campos-Pons says, between past and present, self and other. “I carry a lot of pain and anguish and lacerations from history—the past that I get to know and acknowledge—but also incredible amounts of joy and hope and trust that it’s so difficult, but the best days are ahead and should be built together.”
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In "Spirit in the Land" at PAMM, Art Is the Key to Climate Crisis
"The way that the natural world — the lands, the water, flora, fauna — informs our sense of self and who we are. It shapes our identities as individuals, as a community, as a culture, and in ways that sometimes we're not even really conscious of. I mean, it just informs everything: our spiritual practices, our cuisine, our rituals, recreation. And so the goal, really, is to remind people that we are part of this larger ecosystem. It's not separate from us; it's not something out there. We're not actually trying to save the Earth; the Earth is trying to save us." —Nasher Museum Director Trevor Schoonmaker, who organized Spirit in the Land, now on view at the Pérez Art Museum Miami. Photo by Cornell Watson.