2011 Annual Report - Nasher Museum of Art - Duke University

the record: Contemporary Art and VinylSeptember 2, 2010 – February 6, 2011 | Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle PavilionThe Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, organized bythe Nasher Museum, was the first museum exhibitionto explore the culture of vinyl records within the historyof contemporary art. Bringing together artists fromaround the world who have worked with records astheir subject or medium, the groundbreaking exhibitionexamined the record’s transformative power from the1960s to the present. Through sculpture, installation,drawing, painting, photography, sound work, video andperformance, The Record combined contemporaryart with outsider art, audio with visual, and fine artwith popular culture. The exhibition featured work by41 artists, including rising stars in the contemporaryart world (William Cordova, Robin Rhode, DarioRobleto), outsider artists (Mingering Mike), wellestablishedartists (Jasper Johns, Ed Ruscha, CarrieMae Weems) and artists whose work was shown in aUS museum for the first time (Kevin Ei-ichi deForest,Jeroen Diepenmaat, Taiyo Kimura, Lyota Yagi). TrevorSchoonmaker, Patsy R. and Raymond D. NasherCurator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum,organized the exhibition. The Record traveled to theInstitute of Contemporary Art/Boston in spring 2011and will travel in 2012 to the Miami Art Museum andthe Henry Art Gallery, Seattle.The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl was made possible byThe Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Major supportwas provided by Marilyn M. Arthur, the Mary Duke BiddleFoundation, Duke University’s Council for the Arts, the N.C. ArtsCouncil, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources,Charles Weinraub and Emily Kass, E. Blake Byrne, Barbra andAndrew Rothschild, Christen and Derek Wilson, and the GraduateLiberal Studies program at Duke University. It was supportedin part, by public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services.Additional support was provided by Dr. and Mrs. Robert F.Allen, Catherine Karmel, Peggy and John Murray, Francine andBenson Pilloff, Caroline and Arthur Rogers, Olympia Stone andSims Preston, Angela O. Terry, Richard Tigner, Nancy PalmerWardropper, Peter Lange and Lori Leachman, Lauren and NeillGoslin and Merge Records.RELATED PROGRAMSPublic opening event and DJ party, with eight visiting artists.Artist talk with Xaviera Simmons.A concert by indie rock band Superchunk on the Nasher Museum’s front lawn.BBQ and vinyl listening party with artist Xaviera Simmons.Curator talk with Trevor Schoonmaker.“Art with the Experts” event with Trevor Schoonmaker and Juline Chevalier at Durham County Library.Fifth annual WXDU Record Fair.Record collectors panel discussion with artist David McConnell; DJ and hip-hop producer Ninth Wonder; Howard Burchette,host of “The Funk Show” on WNCU; Jason Perlmutter, founder of Carolina Soul; and Steve Weiss, curator of the UNC SouthernFolklife Collection; moderated by Ken Wissoker, editor-in-chief of Duke University Press.Artist talk with Ralph Lemon.Family Day with artist Fatimah Tuggar.Supporting Member Event with curator Trevor Schoonmaker and artist Harrison Haynes.Barbra and Andrew Rothschild Lecture by Los Angeles-based artist Dave Muller.Free film series, a double feature with Stephen Frears’ High Fidelity and Doug Pray’s DJ documentary Scratch.Free Family Day event with live entertainment, hands-on projects and gallery hunts.p. 14 The Record: Contemporary Art and VinylTOP LEFT: Duke students enjoy Taiyo Kimura’s video, Haunted by You.TOP RIGHT: Students put on headphones and peruse crates of records inthe Cover to Cover installation.BOTTOM: California artist Sean Duffy has made records an important partof his artistic practice. He used 20 LPs to create the buckyball for hissculpture, Burn Out Sun, which speaks to the cyclical nature of populartaste. All photos by Dr. J Caldwell.The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl p. 15