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29514
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A new exhibit in the North Carolina Gallery titled "Line, Touch, and Trace" presents hand-drawn works by 13 North Carolina artists. All of these works explore drawing in its relationship to thought processes. The curator of the exhibition Edie Carpenter is interviewed about the exhibition. Carpenter explains why the exhibition was created, how the artists were selected, how the artists’ materials help them achieve their goals, and what drawing offers the viewer that painting or sculpture does not.
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29515
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Porsche by Design: Seducing Speed tells the Porsche story by rolling 22 of the most rare and significant Porsche automobiles into the Museum for a 14-week exhibition. The exhibit showcases the beauty of Porsche’s aerodynamic designs and showcases the links between engineering and style. The exhibition s previewed by discussing the speed, capabilities, and design features of 13 of the models.
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Photographer Brian Ulrich’s Copia: Retail, Thrift, and Dark Stores, 2001-2011exhibition shows a decade-long investigation of consumer culture. The photographs show the excess of big-box stores, the discarded items at thrift stores, and the landscape of empty shopping centers in urban areas. Ulrich’s photography is intended to help us learn about our behaviors, habits, comforts, and purpose. The exhibit starts with the events of September 11, 2001 with the “call to spend” by politicians through the financial collapse of 2008 to the present.
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The painting Lady Mary Villiers, Later Duchess of Richmond and Lennox, with Charles Hamilton, Lord Arran (circa 1637) was recently restored by the Museum’s Conservation Lab. Flemish artist Anthony van Dyck’s portrait is considered a masterpiece, but suffered from discolored varnish, areas of retouching, and pentimenti. The cleaning and restoration process are described along with the quality and history of the painting.
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The challenge of presenting a borrowed exhibit from a new perspective is discussed by John Coffey. Coffey is the curator of the show Still Life: Masterpieces on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Coffey discusses why the exhibit was brought to Raleigh, how museum’s plan for the installation of an exhibit, the reason for the placement of certain of the artworks, and other details about the exhibit.
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The exhibition Edvard Munch: Symbolism in Print is currently on display and focuses on the idea of death in sex. Munch believed that in love, individuals lost their personal identities and this idea is seen in this collection of prints. His complicated prints of relationships and feelings between men and women often convey anguish, despair, lust, and passion. Munch’s personal experiences and a preview of the exhibition are detailed.
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The Museum’s newest acquisition of contemporary art is Kehinde Wiley’s "Judith and Holofernes" (2012). Wiley is known for his monumental portraits of African Americans placed in historical poses and settings appropriated from Old Master paintings. Wiley is known for critiquing the racism of art history and this portrait references a 17th century painting by Giovanni Baglione, Judith and the Head of Holofernes (1608). Wiley’s painting can be interpreted as a comment on racial and gender identity and inequity, the representation of women throughout art history, and society’s ideals for beauty.
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A new exhibit showcasing still-life paintings will be on display at the Museum on loan from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The exhibition is centered on the idea of looking and looking at objects closely, slowly, and thinking about them. To preview the exhibition, the history of the form of still-life painting is explored and some of the more famous and interesting works by Paul Cezanne, John Frederick Peto, Auguste Renoir, and Girorgio Morandi are profiled.
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The Museum will display a selection of prints by Edvard Munch which focus on the symbolism in his work. Munch was a Norwegian artist whose paintings, drawings, and prints draw the viewer into his inner world of raw emotion and anxiety. Munch explored themes such of love and jealousy, loneliness and anxiety, and sickness and death in his work through symbolism. This exhibition looks at Munch’s achievement as a printmaker and was one of the most influential and prolific printmakers of the modern era.
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A Discerning eye: Julian T. Baker Jr. Photography Collection
The photography collection of Julian T. Baker, Jr. of Raleigh was recently acquired by the museum and will be on display through December. Baker’s collection is one of over 700 photographs spanning from 1903 to 2005 and focuses primarily on black and white images. His collection includes works from celebrated photographers such as Ansel Adams, Brett Easton, Alfred Stieglitz, and Dorothea Lange.
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The inaugural exhibition in the Museum’s new North Carolina Gallery is titled Inverted Utopias and features 20 key works by Bob Trotman. North Carolina artist Trotman began his career as a furniture maker before transitioning to a full-time sculpture artist in 1997. Trotman’s painted and carved-wood portraits depict people at dramatic transitional moments on the brink of change. His works are often both humorous and unsettling and in unusual positions.
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The Museum will display the work of Norman Rockwell in an upcoming exhibition. 40 original paintings and 323 Saturday Evening Post covers will be on display. Rockwell was influential in shaping the nation’s self-image during the twentieth-century through his illustrations in media publications. Rockwell’s art is noted for its humor and portrayal of everyday life. Rockwell’s style and criticism of his work are discussed in this preview of the exhibition.
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The Museum’s most recent acquisition is Jennifer Steinkamp’s video installation titled Mike Kelley. The image of Steinkamp’s dancing tree is one of the first works visitors see when entering the West Building and has quickly become one of the most popular and captivating works of art at the Museum. The artist uses light, color, and movement to create an image inspired by the natural world, but created using 3-D computer animation software. Projected on a wall, the tree cycles through the four seasons in eight minutes and invites viewers to immerse themselves in the work by taking the time to watch it change.
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Jaume Plensa’s Doors of Jerusalem I, II, & III greet visitors as they enter the Museum’s West Building. The three larger figures are mounted high on the wall, are translucent, and are lit from within with words covering their bodies. The words are from the Song of Solomon found in the Bible and the names of the eight gates of the walled city of Jerusalem cover the figures mouths. The figures are described as contemporary gargoyles or celestial beings and their composition and the artist’s style are detailed here.
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Fannie and Alan Leslie bequeathed 30 paintings to the Museum and 13 paintings from their collection are currently on display. The Leslie Collection paintings are examples of modern American art and include major works by leading Southern California modernists. In a preview of the exhibition, the works and styles of artists Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Hans Burkhardt, and Lee Mullican are detailed.
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