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Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
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The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
The Nasher Museum opened in 2005 as a major center for the arts on Duke University’s campus and in the surrounding Research Triangle area. Its mission is to foster an understanding and appreciation of the visual arts by providing direct experiences with original works of art supported by a range of exhibitions and publications, as well as education programs for kindergarten through twelfth grade (K-12) and college students and adult learners.
The museum presents an extensive schedule of leading-edge exhibitions and dynamic programs that enrich the culture of the community and appeal to a diverse audience. Programs are developed to enhance the exhibition experience and include lectures, panel discussions, artist workshops, concerts, dance performances, film series, weekly public tours, Family Days, as well as workshops for educators, and specially designed K-12 education programs.
Important contemporary exhibitions recently organized by the Nasher include: "Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool," traveling to the Studio Museum in Harlem, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; in 2010 "The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl," traveling to the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Miami Art Museum, and the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; again in 2010 "The Vorticists: Rebel Artists in London and New York, 1914-1918," traveling to the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, and Tate Britain, London; and in 2013 "Wangechi Mutu: A Fantastic Journey," traveling to the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University. In 2008 the Nasher co-organized with the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, "El Greco to Velazquez: Art during the Reign of Philip III," which attracted over 140,000 visitors in Boston and 73,844 in Durham. It won great critical acclaim and was chosen as one of the top 10 exhibition of the year by Time magazine and The Wall Street Journal.
The museum’s contemporary collection features a growing list of artists, including Barkley L. Hendricks, Christian Marclay, Wangechi Mutu, Ai Weiwei, Fred Wilson and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. More than 100,000 people visit the museum each year.
The 65,000-square-foot Nasher Museum was designed by architect Rafael Viñoly. The centerpiece of Viñoly’s modernist design is a dramatic 13,000-square-foot glass-and-steel roof rising to a height of 45 feet above the great hall. Five concrete pavilions fan out from a central courtyard to house three large gallery spaces, auditorium, two classrooms, shop and café.
Benefits
Duke University's overall benefit plan has long been recognized and valued because of its comprehensiveness and competitiveness in the market. In addition to a robust array of traditional benefits such as health care, dental care and retirement, Duke also offers a wide range of family-friendly and cultural benefits to attract, support and reward the skilled employees that help Duke remain a premier education, research and health care institution.
For the sixth consecutive year, Duke has been recognized as one of the best colleges in the nation to work for by The Chronicle of Higher Education.