ADAM Awards pre-show and winners

01 May 2010, Posted by Charlie McSpadden in Awards, Film, Playground, 0 Comments

The ADAM Awards were handed out on April 27th, 2010 at the Nasher Museum of Art. The big winners of the night were former Recess contributer Jenni Wei for her horror film I Know What You Filmed Last Week, which won for Writing, Editing, Director and Picture, as well as Senior Katie Banks for both Best and Best Supporting Actress and basketball star Nolan Smith for Best Supporting Actor. Watch the red carpet pre-show here and read the list of nominees and winners (underlined) below:

Best Writing – Original Screenplay
Jennifer Wei, Michelle Sullivan, Sara Friedman, Alex Whiting for I Know What You Filmed Last Week (Horror)
Bull City (Gangster)
Gone With the Season (Romantic Drama)
Where in the World Is President Brodhead’s Mustache (Mystery)

Best Film Editing
Bull City (Gangster)
Jennifer Wei for I Know What You Filmed Last Week (Horror)
Where in the World Is President Brodhead’s Mustache (Mystery)
Blue Planet (Satire)

Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
Taylor Callobre, Hallie Fisher for When Harry Met Sally at Duke (Romantic Comedy)
The Jersey Shore: Duke Edition (Comedy)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role:
Danielle Genet in More Than Luck (Musical)
Katie Banks in Gone With the Season (Romantic Drama)
Shay Selby in Where in the World Is President Brodhead’s Mustache (Mystery)
Heather Wiese in Dark Woods (Adventure)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role:
Michael Bergen in More Than Luck (Musical)
Vinayak Nikam, Poorav Rohatgi, Seth Curry in Bull City (Gangster)
Nolan Smith in No Country for Young Women (Western)
Eddie Loftus in The Jersey Shore: Duke Edition (Comedy)

Best Television Serial Drama
Highland Falls
Mad Men
Emma
Lost

Best Documentary Feature
Fahrenheit 9/11
Holding Hands
An Inconvenient Truth
Food, Inc.

Best Score
Chelsey Amelkin, Katie Swails, Cameron McCallie for More Than Luck (Musical)
Bull City (Gangster)
Life Itself (Epic)
I Know What You Filmed Last Week (Horror)

Best Director
Bruce Xu, No Country for Young Women (Western)
Jeffrey Walker, Where in the World Is President Brodhead’s Mustache (Mystery)
Jennifer Wei, I Know What You Filmed Last Week (Horror)

Best Actor in a Leading Role
David Piccirilli in When Harry Met Sally at Duke (Romantic Comedy)
Michael Boborinskoy in Saving John Roberts (Youth Market)
Patrick Messac in Gone With the Season (Romantic Drama)
David Rothschild in Life Itself (Epic)

Best Actress in a Leading Role
Cristina Miceli, Emily Fausch in I Know What You Filmed Last Week (Horror)
Katie Banks in Bull City (Gangster)
Katie Swails in More Than Luck (Musical)
Marie Aberger in Gone With the Season (Romantic Drama)

Best Picture
Where in the World Is President Brodhead’s Mustache (Mystery)
Bull City (Gangster)
I Know What You Filmed Last Week (Horror)
Gone With the Season (Romantic Drama)

The ADAM Awards Gala

27 Apr 2010, Posted by Charlie McSpadden in Awards, Film, Playground, 0 Comments

The first annual ADAM Awards, Duke’s own version of the Oscars, will be presented tonight at the Nasher Museum of Art. The films competing for the prizes, which are identical to the main categories of the Academy Awards, come from the members of the undergraduate course “America Dreams, American Movies” taught by Theater studies professor Michael Malone and English professor Marianna Torgovnick. Live presenters include Dean Sue Wasiolek and visiting Arts of the Moving Image professor Ted Bogosian. Video presenters include Vice President for Student Affairs Larry Moneta, Provost Peter Lange, Coach Mike Krzyzewski and President Richard Brodhead. Recess film editor Charlie McSpadden will be manning the red carpet and Recess columnist Jack Wilkinson will be hosting the show. The black-tie gala will end with a live performance by the cast of Rent.

Interview: Artist Fred Wilson, Semans Lecturer

29 Oct 2009, Posted by Claire Finch in Art, Playground, 1 Comments

Fred Wilson spoke at the Nasher Tuesday evening as the annual Semans lecturer. The artist deals with museums and objects relationships to such spaces. Before his lecture, I spoke to him about his artistic philosophy, art and more.

First, could you tell me about your work in general, because I know that it falls somewhere in between curatorial and more physical artistic production

Well, just to give you the global story, I make sculpture, and photography and I’m a conceptual artist, so, whatever media, material, or way of doing things suits me is what I am doing. So there’s all that crap that I do in my studio and it gets paid and sold and so that’s one side of what I do; and the other side is working with institutions – well, I also do public commissions too. But the other thing that people really know me for are these museum projects that I do. And having both is great, because one is very much, I don’t want to say collaborative, but I sort of immerse myself in a place, and the other is, I’m in my studio just doing what I want to do. And so it allows me different kinds of experiences and a way to make art.

But the projects that people know me for are these museum projects, which I kind of came to because I worked in museums. And became very interested in how museums display things, because I was working in them. The Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan, and others in New York City. And what intrigued me was that they displayed things in very different ways and sometimes, the same kinds of collections – if you look at different ethnographic—well, ethnographic, take away that word. If you look at the work of Africans, Asians, and native people, where they exist in these different kinds of museums—the art museum and the ethnographic museum—they display them, they talk about them in very different ways. And through the projects that I do, I kind of unpack what they are actually doing to the artworks, and saying about art and about culture. And so I had all this nascent stuff in my head, and finally, when I started making these projects, it all became clear. And so a lot of my projects are still to this day just investigations of thoughts that I have, questions that I have when I’m in an institution. And for me, these museum projects are no different than if I’m making an installation of my own handmade things—well, “handmade,” I don’t do that many handmade things—that’s not my real interest anymore—but my real objects that I’ve created one way or another. It’s just that museum space are not a… they’re systematically together in a certain formula, and I like to subvert the formula somewhat and bring out other ideas.
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An adventurous tale of art criticism– book signing TODAY @ The Nasher

22 Oct 2009, Posted by Claire Finch in Art, Playground, 0 Comments

Acclaimed author John Brewer, who the Nasher blog describes as a “fascinating conversationalist” will come to the Nasher today at 5:30, for a book signing and discussion. His new novel, The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money, offers a pointed critique of the art criticism apparatus– all through the lens of a 1919 case of dubious art authentication involving Leonardo da Vinci’s “La Belle Ferronniere.” Though Brewer’s book comes nearly 100 years after the initial art world scandal, the debate still rages on, and the painting in question remains curiously locked in a storage vault in Omaha.

Nasher reveals artists for 2010's The Record

03 Sep 2009, Posted by Claire Finch in Art, Playground, 0 Comments

Our excitement about the Nasher Museum’s future exhibition The Record, slate for Aug. 2010, just skyrocketed with the announcement of a partial list of featured artists. An effort of the museum’s Curator for Contemporary Art Trevor Schoonmaker, the show will explore the record’s unique cultural and artistic role.

Check out the artists that made the list:

Laurie Anderson (b. 1947 USA), Felipe Barbosa (b. 1978 Brazil), David Byrne (b. 1952 Scotland), William Cordova (b. 1971 Peru), Satch Hoyt (b. 1975 UK), Jasper Johns (b. 1930 USA), Taiyo Kimura (b. 1970 Japan), Christian Marclay (b. 1955 USA), David McConnell (b. 1975 USA), Mingering Mike (b. 1950 USA), Dave Muller (b. 1964 USA), Robin Rhode (b. 1976 South Africa), Dario Robleto (b. 1972 USA), Ed Ruscha (b. 1937 USA), Malick Sidibe (b. 1935 Mali), Xaviera Simmons (b. 1974 USA), Fatimah Tuggar (b. 1967 Nigeria), and Carrie Mae Weems (b. 1953 USA).

David Byrne and imaginary musician Mingering Mike are accompanied by such museum stalwarts as Jasper Johns and sound artist Christian Marclay (whose Video Quartet just vacated the Nasher), making this exhibition a reason to start the countdown until Aug. 19, 2010.