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29697
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Gerrit Berckheyde’s The Fish Market and the Grote Kerk at Haarlem is described in detail. Part of the Museum’s European Gallery, Berckheyde’s painting of Harlem’s main square is characteristic of cityscapes from the period. The piece was painted in the 1670s and the movement to paint cityscapes was motivated by civic self-awareness and an awakening national pride in Holland. They style of the painting, its composition, and criticism is described.
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29703
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The Museum is currently displaying an egungun costume from the Yoruba people of Nigeria. The costume is used during the annual or biennial egungun ceremony and during funeral rites. The costume is believed to be inhabited by a spirit during the masquerade performance and the wearer may mediate between the world of the living and dead in judicial and tribal matters. The costume is richly decorated and its appearance displays the wealth and status of the family who commissioned the costume.
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29717
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The Museum recently acquired the false door from the tomb of the Egyptian Ni-ankh-Snefru, known as Fefi. Fefi was a lector priest, Overseer of the Two Cool Rooms of the Great House, Overseer of the Pyramid Complex Menefer-Pepy, and a courtier of the royal house. The false door was a painting or sculpted relief representing a door that served as a passageway for the ka(soul) of the deceased to travel freely between the tomb and the afterlife. A description of the door, Fefi, and ancient Egyptian burial practices is detailed.
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29718
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The Egyptian collection at the Museum was recently reorganized and updated after over 20 years on display. This reinstallation has allowed for updated educational material to be produced, a rearrangement of the objects into a thematic display, and for new items to be added to the display. The gallery’s reorganized display cases now introduce three important themes: The Afterlife and Funerary Practices, Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, and Artisan Craft and Technology.
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29737
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The removal of a painting for conservation has opened the opportunity for 13 Dutch Kabinet paintings from the 17th century to be displayed. These small, finely crafted paintings would have displayed in the Dutch home in the 17thcentury. The collection includes still-lifes, history scenes, landscapes, and scenes of everyday life and are among the most important treasures at the Museum.
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29740
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The Museum’s newest affiliate members group, the Friends of Photography, funded the recent acquisition of five new photographs for the Museum’s permanent collection. The new works include two photographs by Seydou Keita of Bamako, Mali and three by Deborah Luster or New Orleans. Four of the photographs are pictured and the artists and their work is detailed.
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The North Carolina Museum of Art is one of only two art museums in the country to have a permanent display of Jewish ceremonial art. The Judaic Art Gallery was founded by the late Dr. Abram Kanof. Among the items in the collection are ornaments that decorate the Torah and a rare late 18th-century silver Torah shield.
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27549
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Durham native Caroline Vaughan is a photographer with a national reputation. She is recognized for capturing the small and ordinary moments and was named on the 43 undiscovered masters of photography in 1977. Her work is held in collections by major museums in North America. Vaughan works during the week as a researcher at the Duke Development Office and spends her free time pursuing photography. Vaughan discusses the importance of time and patience to her work and in her life.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 7 Issue 21, July 27- Aug. 2 1989,
p7-9
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29411
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The Museum recently acquired a Greek bronze furniture attachment in the form of a roundel with a bust of Silenus from the late Hellenistic period. The Greek character Silenus was the tutor of the god of wine Dionysus. The attachment would have been found on a couch used by diners and partygoers as a symbol of wine and good times.
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29474
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Anthony Caro’s Table Piece CXCIV sculpture was recently acquired by the Museum. Caro is a British artist who has primarily created abstract sculptures over the past few years. Table Piece CXCIV is made of welded steel and appears thrown together, but was constructed with great care. Caro explains that the meaning of the piece is conveyed by its gesture and form rather than by its geometric shape or realistic representation of something.
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29480
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To commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of its opening, the Museum will present an exhibition of fort-five seventeenth-century Dutch paintings from its collection. This collection is considered one of the finest in the United States and will be paired with approximately thirty etchings and copper plates by Rembrandt lent from the collection of Robert Lee Humber. The history of Dutch art in the seventeenth century is discussed in depth and is unlike art from other European countries during the seventeenth century. The Dutch art from the time period is characterized as being more human and natural, reflecting contemporary life.
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An exhibition by draftsman and painter Rico Lebrun will be on display through November in the Twentieth Century Gallery. Lebrun has been little studied since his death in 1964, but a recent revival of interest in figurative art, religious content, and expressionist paint handling has brought him back to the spotlight. Lebrun’s work often featured themes such as man’s inhumanity and man’s sacrifice. The work and the artists are described in preview of the exhibition curated from the Museum's permanent collection.
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29494
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The Museum recently acquired two antelope headpieces or Tji Wara of the Bamana people of Mali. These two pieces are among the best known types of African sculpture and are classic examples of African art. The headpieces would have been worn by performers in agricultural ceremonies. The male and female pairs like these appeared at hoeing and ground-clearing occasions and were worn by the hardest workers in honor of the mythical being Tji Wara who taught mankind the secret of agriculture.
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The Museum recently acquired three sculptures and an African headdress. The Dead Christ by Italian Giuseppe Mazzuoli (1655-1725) is a bronze sculpture of Christ after his death and is considered one of the best examples of late Roman baroque sculpture in the United States. The wood carvings with beads of a Pair of Ibeji (Twin Figures) are from Nigeria’s Yoruba tribe and the figures were used in a ritual after the death of twins in child birth. The Sawfish Headdress is from Nigeria’s Ibo tribe and is made of wood with paint and mirror glass. The headdress is in the form of a sawfish, is 7 feet in length, and was worn at festivals or masquerades to gain favor with the water spirits.
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Several sixteenth- and seventeenth- century works were received at the Museum as gifts from the late Mrs. George Khuner of Beverly Hills, California. The gift includes seventeen Dutch, Flemish, Italian, and German paintings. The masterpiece of the group is a work titled Virgin and Child in a Landscape by the German artist Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). Cranach was highly influential upon his contemporaries and his biography and the painting are briefly described.
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