When: Monday, April 13, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: Free, open to the public PG I & II parking vouchers available, upon request.
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Description: The Duke University Center for International Studies Globalization and the Artist project presents a lunchtime talk/reading – “Museologies” with Diego Cortez – Director, Benetton Collection, Treviso; Curator of Photography, New (…)
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Tue, November 18, 2008
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 130-132.
Free, open to the public. PG I & II parking vouchers available, upon request.
Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh made up The Kipper Kids, a performance duo begun in the early 1970s. The Kipper Kids performed both in the US and Europe, drawing on Japanese rituals, (…)
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Wed, November 5, 2008
4:15 PM – 5:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 230-232.
Free, open to the public.
Duke University Center for International Studies’ Global and the Artist conversation series
welcomes
British environmental sound artist & experimental musician
Peter Cusack
in a discussion of his work.
For more information on Peter, please visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cusack
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When: Thursday, October 23, 2008 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: Free, open to the public
Duke University Center for International Studies/Globalization & the Artist present: Poet and translator Jane Hirschfield. Hirshfield’s poetry volumes include “After”, “Given Sugar, Given Salt” and “The Lives of the Heart”. Her translations include “The Ink Dark Moon: Poems by Ono no Kamachi (…)
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When: Monday, October 20, 2008 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Where: Perkins Library Rare Book Room
Cost: Free and open to the public. Parking is available in the Bryan Center.
Globalization and the Artist, a project of the Duke University Center for International Studies, opens its Series on Suffering with novelist and essayist Peter Trachtenberg, reading from his new book: The Book of Calamities: Five Questions about Suffering and (…)
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FantaGraphics, publisher of Dash Shaw’s Bottomless Belly Button featured a recap of the opening of Bottomless, curated by Diego Cortez and now on display in the Franklin Center gallery, through October 31, as well as highlights of the Globalization and the Artist seminar, featuring Dash Shaw and Gary Panter.
Read Eric Reynolds’ Report from Duke on Dash Shaw Show
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Fri, September 26, 2008 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Free, open to the public.
Up-and-coming graphic novelist Dash Shaw, author of “Bottomless Belly Button” and the artist behind the JHFC’s “Bottomless” exhibit, will be joined by noted graphic artist Gary Panter, original set designer for “Pee Wee’s Playhouse,” and Dash’s former teacher at the School of the (…)
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Duke University is making a substantial commitment to the arts. And the Duke University Center for International Studies is an important element in our new efforts.
The new Nasher Museum of Art is a vibrant cornerstone to a burgeoning community of artists, theorists, and audiences. Its focus is on contemporary arts, which is an excellent mesh with the contributions of DUCIS (…)
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What are graphic novels? Superman and Captain America? No, it’s artists creating novels, short stories and other fictions by bringing together contemporary images and text.
An image from Bottomless
One of the fastest rising graphic novelists is Dash Shaw. This 25-year-old Brooklynite recently published his 720-page graphic novel with Fantagraphics: Bottomless Belly Button was released in June and a second printing is already (…)
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