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First Thursday: Olafur Eliasson's 'The uncertain museum' Gallery Talk

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Thursday, August 02, 2012
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Juline Chevalier, Curator of Education at the Nasher Museum of Art
First Thursday

Juline Chevalier, Curator of Education at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, gives a gallery talk on Olafur Eliasson's 'The uncertain museum'. This event kicks-off at 5:30 PM with a cash bar and the gallery talk begins at 6 PM. 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. Come hear Juline Chevalier's gallery talk regarding this large-scale interactive installation. Many of Eliasson's signature works explore 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

Type: EXHIBIT, SOCIAL, and STUDENT
Contact: Wendy Hower Livingston