Exhibition: 'State of Wonder'

For a second year, the Nasher Museum of Art is collaborating with Duke's Office of New Student Programs to present an art installation accompanying the incoming freshmen summer reading book. This year's selection, 'State of Wonder' by Ann Patchett (2011), is a novel that follows an American pharmacologist as she seeks out her former mentor developing a fertility drug in the heart of the Amazon. Over forty art works from the Nasher's permanent collection, ranging from Ancient American ceramics to contemporary Chinese photography, explore themes such as maternity, bioethics, biodiversity, and post-colonialism.