Nasher Miro Exhibit Included on "Ten Best Exhibitions of 2014"

"The show is any nerdy curator’s wet dream; the paintings are mostly scattered across the country in small museums, so it’s an essential collection of work."

"Ten Best Exhibitions of 2014," Paddy Johnson, ArtFCity

The New York Times - Nasher Museum of Art

"In the 21st century, university art museums have become more aggressive in extending their missions and collections to reach deeper into classrooms and curriculums not ordinarily associated with art. At Duke’s seven-year-old Nasher Museum, two members of its 30-person staff are devoted exclusively to finding uses for pieces from the collection to enhance course work in various academic departments. Medical students, for instance, spend a day studying visual art in an exercise intended to hone observation and description skills that Nasher staff member developed with professors."

- Art Museums Giving It the Old College Try, The New York Times

The New York Times - The Nasher Museum Acquires a Work by Ai WeiWei

"The empty chair has always been a profound metaphor for Ai Weiwei, the Chinese artist and dissident who was detained by Chinese authorities in the spring and released under close surveillance in June... That is the shape he recreated in a 2008 series of sculptures called “Marble Chair.” Each work is carved from a single block of marble. One was just acquired by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham, N.C., and put on view. The marble chair, a symbol of both continuity and changing traditions, is the first work by Mr. Ai to join the Nasher Museum."

-  Sotheby’s as a Gallery; an Ai Weiwei at Duke, The New York Times