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July Issue 2003
NC Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, Suffles Gallery Spaces to Make Room for Upcoming Exhibition on First Fligh in NC
The North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh, NC, has opened a gallery of favorite works from its American and Modern Art collections. Highlights from American and Modern Art keeps popular works on view to the public while other galleries close in preparation for the Museum's ambitious and extensive upcoming exhibition Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, opening Nov. 2, 2003.
Highlights of American and Modern Art includes works by Thomas Cole, Rembrandt Peale, Winslow Homer, Georgia O'Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, Alberto Giacometti, Franz Kline, Jacob Lawrence, Andrew Wyeth, Romare Bearden, Elizabeth Murray, Gerhard Richter, and others. Additionally, two visitor favorites will be relocated to the Museum's European galleries: John Singleton Copley's Sir William Pepperrell and His Family and Frederick Carl Frieseke's The Garden Parasol. Admission is free.
Also discover the dazzling cultures of Ethiopia, Ghana, Nigeria and more in the exhibition, Accent on Africa: Recent Acquisitions of African Art, on view through Aug. 10, 2003.
The upcoming exhibition Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' historic 1903 flight. With more than 90 works, Defying Gravity is the nation's most ambitious contemporary art exhibition commemorating this centennial.
The first major indoor work for Defying Gravity, Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter's Rabble, will be installed in September in the atrium visible from the Museum's entrance - adjacent to galleries currently being vacated in preparation for the show. Rabble features approximately 1,000 Mylar butterflies arranged in the shape of an X-35 fighter jet.
Defying Gravity is presented by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina and supported in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For further information check our NC Institutional Gallery listings, call the Museum at 919/839-6262 or at (www.ncartmuseum.org).
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