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Celebrate Museums and Share a Memory
Every year on or around May 18, museums around the world celebrate International Museum Day, a day that focuses on museums and the role they play in our ever-changing society. This year’s...
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Contemporary Art in North Carolina
Cancel those reservations for New York and LA, and spend time taking advantage of some of the best contemporary art experiences in America—right here in North Carolina, in the Triangle, and along I-40...
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30 Americans: A Story Told Well
Glenn Ligon, Stranger #21, 2005, acrylic, coal dust, silkscreen, gesso. and oil stick on canvas, 96 x 72 in. When I first heard the title I thought, OK, what is this about? The answer came, 30...
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30 Americans: A Story of Humanity
I have been a visitor to the North Carolina Museum of Art from childhood and joined the Museum staff five years ago. During my visits to Morgan Street and up to recently, I always gravitated to the...
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30 Americans: All Dressed Up
Walking through the 30 Americans exhibition, one enters a world filled with vibrant color, lush tactile materials, playful embellishment, and stunning craftsmanship. If all of these attributes are not...
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30 Americans: Powerful and Priceless
It is hard to pick which of the Hank Willis Thomas pieces I liked the most in 30 Americans, but I thought Priceless covered enough of his style to work for the whole. Like most of his art, this...
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30 Americans: Questions and Connections
Alice Walker once wrote, “If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.” Walker is the author of one of my favorite books, The Color Purple. In The Color Purple, Celie, a poor African...
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