Nasher Museum of Art
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| Nasher Museum of Art | |
| Use | Art museum |
| Style | Modern |
| Erected | 2005 |
| Location | 2001 Campus Drive Central Campus |
| Namesake | Raymond Nasher |
| Architect | Rafael Viñoly |
| Cost | $24 million |
| Website | Nasher Museum |
The Nasher Museum of Art is the art museum of Duke University, and is located on Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The $24 million museum was designed by architect Rafael Viñoly, and opened on October 2, 2005. The first year after opening drew almost 100,000 visitors. The museum, named for Raymond Nasher, contains more than 13,000 works of art in its collection, including works by Christian Boltanski, William Cordova, Marlene Dumas, Sam Durant, Olafur Eliasson, Darío Escobar, Francois Gerard, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Sean Landers, Hong Lei, Leonid Lerman, Sol Lewitt, Glenn Ligon, Alexander Ney, Dan Perjovschi, Paul Pfeiffer, Robin Rhode, Ed Ruscha, John Singer Sargent, Gary Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Eve Sussman, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol, and Kehinde Wiley.
[edit] Current and Future Exhibitions at the Nasher
Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool
February 7, 2008 – July 13, 2008
This exhibit is the first career painting retrospective of renowned American artist Barkley L. Hendricks. Born in 1945 in Philadelphia, Hendricks’s unique work resides at the nexus of American realism and post-modernism, a space somewhere between portraitists Chuck Close and Alex Katz and pioneering black conceptualists David Hammons and Adrian Piper. He is best known for his stunning, life-sized portraits of people of color from the urban northeast. Cool, empowering and sometimes confrontational, Hendricks’s artistic privileging of a culturally complex black body has paved the way for today’s younger generation of artists who are deeply indebted to him. This exhibition of Hendricks’s oil paintings will include work from 1964 to the present. The exhibition will travel to the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, and the Santa Monica Museum (Los Angeles). It is sponsored in part by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc., the National Endowment for the Arts, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and the North Carolina Arts Council. There is a 140-page full-color catalogue with over 160 reproductions.
New at the Nasher
July 19, 2007 – July 6, 2008
The Nasher Museum presents an installation of works acquired in recent years that reflect the museum’s increased focus on contemporary art. These are significant works by international artists including Christian Boltanski, William Cordova, Marlene Dumas, Olafur Eliasson, Dario Escobar, David Levinthal, Sol Lewitt, Paul Pfeiffer, Ed Ruscha, Kara Walker and Eve Sussman and The Rufus Corporation. In some cases, the works reflect relationships that the museum has built with artists through exhibitions here. All of the artists are living and have achieved global reputations; some are emerging and others well established. The exhibition includes a variety of media – painting, photography, sculpture, video and installation.
Taste of the Modern: Rothko, Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Kline
October 11, 2007 – September 14, 2008
As part of a special loan from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, six important works by four major American artists of the 1950s and 1960s will be on view, showcasing America’s creative energies in Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. Included are an abstract sublime painting by Mark Rothko, No. 46 [Black, Ochre, Red Over Red] (1957); two paintings by Robert Rauschenberg, Painting with Grey Wing (1958), and Slow Fall (1961); two sculptures by Claes Oldenburg, Pie à la Mode (1962) and Hamburger with Pickle and Olive (1962); and Frans Kline’s gestural “action painting” Hazelton (1957), named for a town south of his hometown in Pennsylvania.
El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III
August 21, 2008 – November 9, 2008
The Nasher Museum is collaborating with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, to present this groundbreaking exhibition – the first in the US to focus on Spanish art of the period between 1598 and 1621. The show examines a fascinating period bookended by the two giants of Spanish painting: the late works of El Greco and the early paintings of Velázquez.
This exhibition will include some 120 paintings, sculptures and decorative art pieces, representing 20 artists. The masters will be seen in context with lesser-known artists working during this time in Spain. The show will bring together works of art from museums around the world, some of which rarely travel outside of their countries, creating a unique opportunity for American audiences. Key loans from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museo del Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, and the National Gallery of Art, among other institutions and private lenders, are secured.
Picasso and the Allure of Language
August 20, 2009 – January 17, 2010
This exhibition will include approximately 80 works by Picasso from the collection of the Yale University Art Gallery and sculptures from the Raymond and Patsy Nasher Collection. The exhibition opens at Yale in January 2009 before traveling to the Nasher Museum. The exhibition, a presentation of a chronologically and thematically diverse group of objects, includes paintings, drawings, collages, prints, ceramics, sculpture and illustrated books. It will showcase major works, such as Picasso's monumental still life Dog and Cock (1921) and his wartime masterpiece, First Steps (1943), as well as lesser-known yet equally intriguing works that helped shaped our understanding of what the "modern" was throughout the last century. Many of the works by Picasso at Yale were once owned by major 20th-century figures and collectors, including Katherine Dreier, Gertrude Stein, John Hay Whitney, Katherine Ordway, and Stephen Carlton Clark, and this rich historical dimension will be traced throughout the installation. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue with contributions by a team of curators and scholars.
