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Eno and Nasher





Fun today. Hiking at Eno River, where I go at least once a year. In the afternoon, a trip to the Nasher Museum to see the new exhibit---Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China. Here's what's written about the exhibit on Nasher's website, www.nasher.duke.edu.
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Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China offers the first comprehensive look at innovative photo and video art produced in China since the mid-1990s. The exhibition features 130 works by 60 Chinese artists, many of whom are exhibiting in this country for the first time. Their works, often ambitious in scale and experimental in nature, present a range of highly individual responses to the unprecedented changes now taking place in China’s economy, society and culture. In addition to introducing a remarkable body of work to American audiences, the exhibition also provides insight into the dynamics of Chinese culture at the start of the 21st century.

The exhibition was was curated by Wu Hung, professor of art history at the University of Chicago and consulting curator at the Smart Museum, and Christopher Phillips, curator at the International Center of Photography
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