Guangdong Times Museum Opens Shift: Exhibition on young American Artists Creating Artwork in China The Shift Exhibition is on view at the Guangdong Times Museum from July 16 to August 28, 2011. The exhibition deployed five active young and mid-career … Continued

The annual MFA exhibition “New Currents in Contemporary Art” runs from April 11-May 10 at the Ackland Art Museum. This exhibition introduces seven emerging artists who interpret ideas ranging from the personal to the political in a wide variety of … Continued

Excavating Cultural Memory in Roman Macedonia: The Case of Argos Orestikon1 October 2010, 4:00 PM, Murphey Hall, Room 116Dimitris Damaskos is Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece A reception follows the lecture in Murphey 221. Sponsored by the … Continued

Update: Reviews are in. Check out the great notices on the NCartblog and in the Independent Weekly.N.C. Museum of Art Presents Self-Observed Forty-one works on view in the Museum’s debut college student exhibitionInspired by the quest of identity that occupied … Continued

Congratulations to Susan Harbage Page on receiving the 2011 Carolina Women’s Center Faculty Women’s Advocacy Award! Established by the CWC in 2001, the Women’s Advocacy Award recognizes UNC faculty, staff, postdoctoral scholars or students who have made a substantial contribution … Continued

“A Fire in My Belly” is a short, silent film made in 1987 by the artist David Wojnarowicz, well known in the art world for his thought provoking, lyrical films and installations and for his AIDS activism. Last year, curators … Continued

Congratulations to Associate Professor John P Bowles on the publication of Adrian Piper: Race, Gender, and Embodimentby Duke University Press.In 1972 the artist Adrian Piper began periodically dressing as a persona called the Mythic Being, striding the streets of New … Continued

Susan Harbage Page photographs objects found at the international border (objects trouvés), in the Rio Grande Valley, near Brownsville (USA) and Matamoros (Mexico). The photographs, part of her Border Project, depict no immigrants, only the dried out clothes that they … Continued

Travis Donovan (MFA 2011), Chris Musina (MFA 2012) and Tracy Spencer-Stonestreet (MFA 2011) are featured in the currently traveling MFA invitational exhibition Untitled. Organized and curated by University of Virginia graduate students Michael Maizels and Brittany Strupp, the exhibition pairs … Continued

Skin color is the most influential factor behind racial identity, but determining race has never been black and white. A new book by legal scholar Daniel Sharfstein called “The Invisible Line: Three American Families and the Secret Journey from Black … Continued