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The Ackland Art Museum on UNCs campus in Chapel Hill has just undergone its first major renovation and reinstallation since 1991, beginning this fall with all-new exhibits and an all-new sense of purpose. "We have some pieces that everyone wants to see-certain core things that are important, and oftentimes our faculty rely on them for teaching-but at the same time we have lots of pieces in storage, very good pieces," explains Emily Kass, who has been the director of the Ackland during this busy year. "Our audience wants to know there's more to the Ackland than just the top ten favorites."
Down a hallway, a soonto-be completed addition will house an entirely new gallery of the Ackland's "art of the natural world," next door to the gallery that houses European religious art. These rooms will be connected by a gallery organized around contrapposto art, the term for a human figure whose shoulders and hips twist on different axes, as in, for example, Michelangelo's David.Of the more than 15,000 pieces in the Ackland's collection, approximately 10,000 are works on paper, which is why the previously neglected upstairs gallery has been rebranded as "Upstairs at the Ackland," a type of permanent special exhibit highlighting some of this art. Until late November, the room will be filled with Chinese calligraphy; beginning in December the room will feature a show called "Theme and Variation: Print Sequences from Ornament to Abstraction,"See the full content of this document
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The Ackland Art Museum on UNCs campus in Chapel Hill has just undergone its first major renovation and reinstallation since 1991, beginning this fall with all-new exhibits and an all-new sense of purpose. "We have some pieces that everyone wa...
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