Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University Art museum at the heart of Duke, since 2005. Free admission. Courtesy of Jennifer McCracken New & Jason New.
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The Nasher will be closed Friday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth. We invite you to commemorate the holiday with us...
06/17/2026

The Nasher will be closed Friday, June 19, in observance of Juneteenth. We invite you to commemorate the holiday with us on June 18 at 6 p.m. with a screening of "BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions", a genre-bending exploration of Black history, culture, and consciousness. RSVP here: https://duke.is/blknws

Join us for a Juneteenth screening of "BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions," a visionary film by artist and filmmaker Kahlil Jose...
06/12/2026

Join us for a Juneteenth screening of "BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions," a visionary film by artist and filmmaker Kahlil Joseph.

Adapted from Joseph's acclaimed video art installation, the film is a distinctive cinematic experience that mirrors the sonic textures of a record album, weaving fiction and history in an immersive journey where the fictionalized figures of W. E. B Du Bois and Marcus Garvey join artists, musicians, Joseph's family, and even Twitter chats, in a vision for black consciousness.

🎬 Thursday, 6/18 at 6 p.m.
🔗 RSVP at the link in bio.

Our favorite thing in the museum? The people in it 💚We love seeing you 🫵 in the galleries, so please keep tagging us!📸 P...
06/10/2026

Our favorite thing in the museum? The people in it 💚

We love seeing you 🫵 in the galleries, so please keep tagging us!

📸 Photo credits (from IG)






Looking for something to do (indoors) with the kids this weekend?Join us for this month's Second Sunday, featuring a ver...
06/09/2026

Looking for something to do (indoors) with the kids this weekend?

Join us for this month's Second Sunday, featuring a very special Family Day Celebration with our friends Kid Lab! We'll have hands-on activities, including clay sculpting, portrait collage-making, a giant marble run, and a communal weaving project!

Come make something, play a little, and leave the cleanup to us. Free and open to all.

Canes fans, this one’s for you 🌀 While the Carolina Hurricanes make their playoff run, we're celebrating a different kin...
06/06/2026

Canes fans, this one’s for you 🌀

While the Carolina Hurricanes make their playoff run, we're celebrating a different kind of hurricane here at the Nasher. After moving to Durham and witnessing a hurricane for the first time, Silvia Heyden created "Hurricane," which captures the chaos and movement left in a storm's wake. The work is on view through tomorrow, when "Silvia Heyden: Weaving Notes & Nature" closes.

Catch it before it's gone.

🪡 Silvia Heyden, Hurricane, 1969. Silk and linen, 80 3/4 × 94 1/4 inches (205.1 × 239.4 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. Gift of Mary D.B.T. Semans and James H. Semans, M.D., 1976.101.1. © Silvia Heyden Estate. Photo by Peter Paul Goeffreon.

One month left to LISTEN. Before this exhibition closes, spend time with the voices and sounds that often go unheard. Th...
06/05/2026

One month left to LISTEN.

Before this exhibition closes, spend time with the voices and sounds that often go unheard. Through an immersive eight-channel video installation, artist Dyani White Hawk invites us to encounter Indigenous languages not through translation, but through presence.

On view through July 5. Don't miss your chance to experience LISTEN at the Nasher, where admission is always free.

📸 Dyani White Hawk, Razelle Benally, LISTEN (still), 2020. MP4 Eight-channel HD video with sound, edition 1/5. Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. Museum purchase with funds provided by Marjorie (P’16, P’19, P’19) and Michael Levine (B.S.’84, P’16, P’19, P’19) and Benjamin Wiener, 2024.8.1. ©Dyani White Hawk. Image courtesy of the Artist, Bockley Gallery, and Various Small Fires.

06/04/2026

Sometimes all it takes is a reframe.

Kate Werwie, Waldron Family Associate Curator, talks us through a new installation that pairs “The Feast of Herod” by the Studio of Rubens with Renee Cox’s “The Housewife Missy at Home,” reframing conversations about race and representation.

This pairing was proposed by Yuhuan Zhang T’27 for an assignment in the course “Museum Theory and Practice” taught at the Museum.

See them together in the Wilson Pavilion here at the Nasher, where admission is always free!

🖼️ Studio of Peter Paul Rubens, Feast of Herod, c. 1635. Oil on panel, 28 1/4 x 41 3/4 inches (71.8 x 106 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. Gift in honor of Marilyn M. Segal by her children, 1998.22.9. Photo by Peter Paul Geoffrion.

🖼️ Renee Cox, The Housewife Missy at Home from the series Black Housewives, 2009. Digital inkjet print on watercolor paper, edition 2/3, 30 × 40 inches (76.2 × 101.6 cm). Collection of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC. Gift of Marjorie (P’16, P’19, P’19) and Michael Levine (B.S.’84, P’16, P’19, P’19), 2020.14.1. © Renee Cox.

Ready for June 🌞 Spend the month discovering art, creativity, and community at the Nasher. Take a look at what’s coming...
05/29/2026

Ready for June 🌞

Spend the month discovering art, creativity, and community at the Nasher. Take a look at what’s coming up in June and plan your free visit today!

📚 6/4: Bilingual Story Time/Tiempo de Historias Bilingües
🌈 6/4: Gallery Guide Tour: Projecting Pride
🪞 6/9: Reflections: Public Tour
🧑‍🎨 6/11: Gallery Guide Tour: Out of the Box Art
❇️ 6/12: Reflections: Virtual Tour
🎨 6/14: Second Sundays: Family Day Celebration with KidLab
🎞️ 6/18: Juneteenth Film Screening – BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions
🇺🇸 6/25: Gallery Guide Tour: American Experience

05/14/2026

For the tiny artists / Para las artistas pequeñitas 📚

Join us on the first Thursday of each month with the for Bilingual Story Time, featuring stories told in Spanish and English with hands-on art activities to follow.

We are pleased to announce Michelle Moore as the new Director of Communications and Marketing for the Nasher Museum of A...
08/04/2025

We are pleased to announce Michelle Moore as the new Director of Communications and Marketing for the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. A New Orleans native, she brings extensive experience in strategic communications, media relations, and marketing from leadership positions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The National WWII Museum, and the ACLU of Louisiana. Her versatile background also includes public relations strategy and event management, with past roles at Atlantic Records and the Essence Music Festival.

Michelle holds a BA in Communications from Loyola University New Orleans. At the Nasher, she will oversee all internal and external communications, focusing on strategic messaging and marketing initiatives. She looks forward to crafting compelling stories and innovative campaigns that elevate the museum’s voice locally and beyond!

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