Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids
Nasher Museum of Art
November 12, 2009 – February 21, 2010
“Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” provides insight into the artist who sought to capture the world like a camera. The exhibition includes about 250 Polaroids and 70 silver gelatin black-and-white prints taken by Warhol from 1970 to 1987, many of them on public view for the first time.
“Big Shots: Andy Warhol Polaroids” reveals an important dimension of Warhol’s process in creating his famous large-scale portraits. Although his Polaroids served as aids for painting portraits, in and of …

Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature
Nasher Museum of Art
Feb. 4 – May 16, 2010
A unique exhibition that compares the 19th century origins of journalistic caricature with its transformation in the digital age comes to the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from Feb. 4 through May 16, 2010.
“Lines of Attack: Conflicts in Caricature” juxtaposes political cartoons from the past, such as works featuring French King Louis-Philippe (1830-1848) by Honoré Daumier and his contemporaries, with work produced more recently during the tenures of U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. …

Identity Theft: How a Cropsey Became a Gifford
Mint Museum of Art
November 21, 2009 through March 27, 2010

Loïs Mailou Jones: A Life in Vibrant Color
Mint Museum of Art
November 14, 2009 – February 27, 2010

Faces & Flowers: Painting on Lenox China
Mint Museum of Art
August 22, 2009 through January 30, 2010