Xaveria Simmons: Thundersnow Road, North Carolina, 2010

During her fall 2010 residency at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, New York artist Xaviera Simmons met visitors and worked with Duke faculty and students. Her work was commissioned by the Nasher Museum for The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl. For her Thundersnow Road, NC project, Simmons created photographs of the North Carolina landscape and solicited musical responses from musicians such as Mac McCaughan of Superchunk, Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio and Jim James of My Morning Jacket. The original songs were pressed onto a 12-inch record that is the soundtrack for her photographic installation.

Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool

with Artist Barkley L. Hendricks, Art Historian Richard J. Powell, Curator Trevor Schoonmaker.

'Left of Black': Episode #11 featuring Curator Trevor Schoonmaker

Left of Black # 11--November 29, 2010
w/Mark Anthony Neal

Host and Duke University Professor Mark Anthony Neal is on location at the Nasher Museum of Art in Durham, NC with curator Trevor Schoonmaker, who curated The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, which runs at the Nasher Museum until February.

Schoonmaker's previous exhibitions at the Nasher Museum include Barkley L. Hendricks: Birth of the Cool (2008-10) and Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode (2007-08). Prior to joining the Nasher Museum his exhibitions included The Beautiful Game: Contemporary Art and Fútbol (2006), DTroit (2003-04), and Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti (2003-05). He edited the book Fela: From West Africa to West Broadway.