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A new art exhibition at Duke University's Nasher Museum explores the history of everyday activism and social justice through works by prominent artists.

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‘Jim Crow must go’: the artists and everyday heroes who fought injustice – in pictures
via US news | The Guardian — Turn the Volume Up! at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University highlights the activism of everyday people who have confronted injustice. New York’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, quoting the Bronx rapper KRS-One’s song Turn The Volume Up during his election-day victory speech inspired the name of the exhibit. Featuring work by artists such as Kara Walker, Carrie Mae Weems and the Guerrilla Girls, the show examines how protests and collective action can create and inspire social change Turn the Volum
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August 19, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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Dallas no para de sorprenderme... . Visitando un centro comercial con tantas obras de arte que ya les gustaría tener a muchos museos de arte contemporáneo en Europa. Todo gracias al patrocinio de una familia de Texas @nashermuseum Envidia sana
December 7, 2024 at 1:11 AM
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The upside of hosting a conference at the @NasherMuseum: art breaks

(Portal Archivolt from Cathedral of Alice 1100-1150)
November 19, 2024 at 12:23 AM
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After Amy Sherald’s portrait of First Lady @MichelleObama

playing at silkscreening at @NasherMuseum
November 18, 2024 at 4:42 PM
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“Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum” is ending soon at @NasherMuseum. If you’re in the @DukeU @DurhamNC area, do check it out before it closes.
November 18, 2024 at 4:41 PM
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Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922 @NasherMuseum.

Remarkable glass plate Jim Crow-era portraits by the itinerant Mangum (self-portrait here), who set up temporary studios all around NC and VA.
November 18, 2024 at 2:46 PM
chowleen.bsky.social
Janus — the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings.

[Janus, c.1240, artist unknown @NasherMuseum ]
November 18, 2024 at 1:34 PM
chowleen.bsky.social
I will be part of a panel discussion 9/3 at @NasherMuseum on Christian Marclay’s “Surround Sounds” now on view. Check it out before it closes next week!

Hosted by @fhi_duke; more info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/324250348476085/?ti=icl
November 18, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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Kent Monkman, “History is Painted by the Victors,” 2013 (detail)

-always a good reminder.
from ‘Native Voices, 1950s to Now’ exhibition @NasherMuseum
November 18, 2024 at 10:32 AM
chowleen.bsky.social
Janus — the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings.

#January: to inevitable endings and necessary transitions, and to fresh beginnings and renewals of joy

[c.1240, artist unknown - resides at @NasherMuseum ]
November 17, 2024 at 10:35 AM
chowleen.bsky.social
Janus — the god of beginnings, gates, transitions, time, duality, doorways, passages, and endings.

#January: to inevitable endings and necessary transitions, and to fresh beginnings and renewals of joy

[c.1240, artist unknown - resides at @NasherMuseum ]
January 1, 2024 at 1:42 PM
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Visiting lovely #NasherMuseum of Art at #DukeUniversity 🫶

#art #museum #NorthCaroline
October 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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A dementia patient reflecting on his own experience during art tour @NasherMuseum questioned 'what we could do with him now that he was broken.' 1000 miles apart physically, multiple decades apart in age. Read this essay on Repairing Our View of Dementia https://ja.ma/3U1cwhG
December 1, 2024 at 8:44 AM
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“Self Portrait (Silver and Burned)” by Stacy Lynn Waddell (American) - Burned paper with composition aluminum leaf / 2017 - Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, North Carolina) #WomenInArt #StacyLynnWaddell #Waddell #selfportrait #art #artText #arte #WomensArt #WomanArtist #WomenArtists #NasherMuseum #Duke
Durham-based American artist Stacy Lynn Waddell, born in Washington, DC in 1966, creates images by literally burning them into paper, then pairing the scorched surface with reflective metal leaf. In this self-portrait, she uses a branding or wood-burning tool to create her own likeness on the sheet, evoking the histories of scarification, labor, and racialized marking on Black bodies while also claiming her image with exquisite care. She depicts herself as a Black woman seen from the chest up, turned slightly to meet our gaze head-on. Her close-cropped hair and smooth scalp rise into the upper edge of the paper, rendered as dense, looping burn marks that ripple like fingerprints across her skin. Dark, carefully scorched lines form arched brows, heavy-lidded eyes, and a soft, knowing almost-smile. Her face and neck are modeled with layered, swirling strokes that suggest both tenderness and strength. A simple necklace and angular earrings rest against a broad shoulder, while the silver, metallic background catches light, framing her head like a luminous, modern halo. The silver leaf behind her suggests both a mirror and a precious metal, linking everyday self-regard to art history’s long tradition of gilded icons and portraiture. Acquired by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University as part of its initiative to build a contemporary collection centered on artists historically underrepresented in major museums, the portrait has appeared in exhibitions such as “People Get Ready” and the virtual show “Graphic Pull.” Made more than a decade into her professional practice, the work marks a moment of artistic arrival as Waddell presents herself as steady, unflinching, and fully present within the museum space. Her innovative use of nontraditional materials has become central to contemporary conversations about Black feminist representation, the American South, and who is invited to see themselves reflected in art institutions.
November 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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The Octoroon Girl by Archibald J. Motley Jr. (American) - Oil on canvas / 1925 - Nasher Museum of Art (Durham, North Carolina) #womeninart #nashermuseum #motley #portrait #painting #ArchibaldMotley #art #womensart #fineart #oilpainting #americanart #artwork #portraitofawoman #HarlemRenaissance
The portrait and genre-scene painter Archibald Motley Jr. made a series of three works that portray African American women based on their Creole racial classifications, including The Octoroon Girl, the most famous, as well as A Mulatress (1924) and The Quadroon (1927). The sitter in The Octoroon Girl, as in the sister paintings, remains nameless. She is only identified by her race, which is one-eighth Black which is the reference for the title. She is an elegant young woman seated on a sofa against a maroon wall. Drawing on his academic training, Motley here creates a perfectly balanced composition. The sitter, off center, stares directly at the viewer, offset by the gold frame in the upper left and the table with books on the lower right. Motley demonstrates his mastery of texture in his depiction of her stylish dress, hat, and leather gloves. Her clear, steady gaze conveys a sense of confidence, composure, and dignity. Her elegance, wealth, and privilege are also evidenced by her fine jewelry. Almost indistinguishable from any white American, this woman embodies the ideals of timeless beauty and elegance. Born into a mixed-race family, Motley was raised in New Orleans and Chicago and experienced firsthand how these complex classifications determined social status and privilege. Archibald Motley Jr., like so many artists during the Harlem Renaissance, wanted to create images that highlighted the fullness of the Black experience while drawing attention to issues facing the community. He accomplished this aim beautifully through this elegant portrait that brings race, gender, and class into conversation, while reflecting his own background within the nuanced system of racial identity practiced in New Orleans.
January 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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.@NasherMuseum director Schrotch came down from @DukeU for this #ArtBaselMiami event, sweet!
December 23, 2024 at 1:47 AM
“David Hammons, Hair and Wire, Venice Beach.” Bruce Talamon (American; b. 1949). Gelatin silver print, 1977; edition 1/10. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina.

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February 24, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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Are you a participant or an observer?

"Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Us Around" Hank Willis Thomas, 2015-2016. #NasherMuseum #CivilRights
A print of white cops on the left and black civil rights activists on the right. A reflection of an Asian man in a green jacket is in the middle holding a phone.
November 14, 2024 at 11:47 PM
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Mingering Mike
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'A documentary about outsider artist Mingering Mike, as part of "The Record Contemporary Art and Vinyl," at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University...'
Mingering Mike
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December 20, 2024 at 10:02 PM