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  • Exhibition: 'Olafur Eliasson: The uncertain museum'

    Sponsor:

    Nasher Museum of Art

    Location:

    Nasher Museum of Art - Map

    Cost:

    Free

    When:

    to

    Contact:

    Livingston, Wendy Hower

    Phone:

    684-3314

    The Nasher Museum brings back a popular work, 'The uncertain museum,' which was the first by this important Danish-Icelandic artist to enter the museum's collection. The large-scale interactive installation, like many of Eliasson's signature works, explores the relationship between spectator and object. BELOW: Ólafur Elíasson, 'The uncertain museum,' 2004. Steel, painted wooden floor, wire, motors, glass/mirror disks, spotlight, projection foil, 9 feet, 8 inches high x 14 feet, 7 inches diameter. Purchase, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Fund for Acquisitions and funds provided by Blake Byrne, T'57, Monica M. and Richard D. Segal, Mr. and Mrs. J. Tomilson Hill, and Bill and Ruth True. 2006.4.1

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