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For immediate release                   Contact: Virginia Boyd
Sept. 7, 1994                           (919) 681-8065
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DUKE ART MUSEUM BEGINS 25TH YEAR WITH FULL CALENDAR OF EVENTS


       DURHAM, N.C. -- Old master paintings, contemporary paintings
and sculpture, and documentary photographs are featured in three
exhibitions opening Friday to mark the beginning of the Duke
University Museum of Art's year-long 25th anniversary
celebration.
       The museum first opened its doors to the public Oct. 14,
1969.  The inaugural exhibit featured works from DUMA's founding
collection -- approximately 260 medieval art objects acquired by
Duke in 1966 from Ella Bache Brummer.
       Today, the art museum's collection has grown to include more
than 11,000 items, according to DUMA Director Michael Mezzatesta. 
He said the Brummer collection and the pre-Columbian art
collection, which was begun with a major acquisition from Paul
and Virginia Clifford, are two of the largest and most important
university museum collections of their kind in the United States.
       Over the years, the museum also has obtained significant
holdings of African, American, Asian, classical, contemporary and
old master art, Mezzatesta said.
       DUMA has been both host and organizer for a number of
traveling exhibitions that have been shown in locations across
the United States.  
       The museum's activities also have included seven shows with
student curators, five scholarly catalogs produced in association
with Duke University Press, and docent-led tours for school
children and adult groups. A variety of lectures, symposia,
films, plays and concerts are also part of the museum's
educational programs.
       DUMA's 25th anniversary calendar schedule includes the
following:
       * Sept. 9, 1994-1996: "Italian and Dutch Paintings from the
Collection of the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation" will open in
the north galleries.  On a special two-year loan from the Blaffer
Foundation of Houston, this selection of 34 old master paintings
dates from the 14th to the 18th centuries.
       * Sept. 9 - Oct. 30: "The Matter of History: Selected Work
by Annette Lemieux" will be shown in the main gallery. A
nationally renowned artist, Lemieux creates mixed-media works
using images, texts and objects associated with World War II and
the Holocaust.
       * Sept. 9 - Oct. 30: "American Ground Zero: The Secret
Nuclear War" will be displayed in the upper foyer and north
gallery.  This exhibition will include approximately 50 black-
and-white documentary photographs and text.  Carole Gallagher's
works were created during her decade-long collection of portraits
and interviews of people whose lives were affected by above
ground atom bomb testing in the United States.
       * Friday, Sept. 9: an opening lecture, "The Matter of
History: Repetition and Interruption in the Work of Annette
Lemieux," will be given at 6 p.m. by Judith Hoos Fox, the
organizer of the exhibit and curator for the Davis Museum and
Cultural Center at Wellesley College.  A reception will follow
from 7 to 9 p.m.  Admission is $5 for the general public, $3 for
students and free for Friends of DUMA.
       * Saturday, Sept. 10: gallery talk with artist Annette
Lemieux and curator Judith Hoos Fox will be held at 11 a.m.
       * Saturday, Sept. 10: a symposium "Images Creating Memory"
will be held from 1 to 5 p.m. in the north gallery.  The
symposium relates to the exhibition "The Matter of History:
Selected Works by Annette Lemieux."
       * Sunday, Sept. 18: anthropologist Peter Furst, of The
University Museum at the University of Pennsylvania, will present
a free lecture titled "Huichol Yarn Painting: Tradition and
Change" at 3 p.m.  Furst will discuss a large mural which has
joined DUMA's pre-Columbian art exhibition as a special loan of
contemporary indigenous art from Mexico.
       * Thursday, Sept. 22: DUMA will launch its new "After Hours"
program for busy professionals who have difficulty visiting the
museum during regular hours.  One night a month the museum will
stay open until 7 p.m.  On Sept. 22, the event will begin with a
5 p.m. reception and a gallery tour at 6 p.m. led by Mezzatesta. 
The free tour will feature works from the Blaffer collection. 
Other "After Hours" gatherings will be held Oct. 20, Nov. 23 and
Dec. 15.
       * Wednesday, Sept. 28: Dr. Fred J. Spielman, of the
department of anesthesiology at the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, will present a lecture titled "The Art of
Anesthesiology: An Illustrated History of Pain Control" at 7:30
p.m. in the north gallery.
       * Sunday, Nov. 6: regional Italian cooking demonstration and
wine tasting held at 3 p.m. will be led by Chef Nancy Kitterman. 
Admission is $10 for the general public, $7 for Friends of DUMA.
       * Nov. 11 - Dec. 30, "The Great English Vortex: Selected
Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Michael W. Wilsey"
will be displayed in the upper foyer. 
        * Nov. 11 - Dec. 30: "Ralph Eugene Meatyard: Photographs
from the Collection of Vernon Pratt" will be shown in the north
gallery.
        * Nov. 11 - Dec. 30: "Art of the `60s and `70s: Selections
from DUMA Collections" will be exhibited in the southeast
"Brummer" gallery.  Most of these rarely displayed works are
prints by noted contemporary artists including Josef Albers,
Romare Bearden, Philip Guston, Robert Motherwell, Alice Neel and
Frank Stella.
       * Sunday, Nov. 13: Pianist Jane Hawkins, actress Quinn
Hawkesworth and others will perform a selection of British pre-
WWI entertainment at 3 p.m.
       * Thursday, Nov. 17: A Renaissance dinner and exhibition
preview will be held as a gala celebration of DUMA's silver
anniversary. A preview of an exhibition of objects from the
museum's Brummer collection will be held at 6:30 p.m.  A
Renaissance dinner and period music will follow.  Reservations
for this event are required by Nov. 7.
       * Nov. 18 - Dec. 30: "The Brummer Collection: 25 Years of
Medieval and Renaissance Art at the Duke University Museum of
Art" will be exhibited in the main gallery in a redesigned
exhibition. Objects of religious as well as secular content from
the collection will address aspects of patronage, function,
architectural context, commerce and daily life. 
       * Friday, Nov. 18: opening lecture for the new Brummer
exhibit will be given by Associate Curator Jill Meredith in the
north gallery at 6 p.m.  Meredith is co-author, with Professor
Caroline Bruzelius, of a comprehensive catalog of the Brummer
collection published by Duke Press.  A reception will follow the
lecture from 7 to 9 p.m.
       * Sunday, Dec. 11: Fortuna will perform a program of music
by Orlande de Lasse, commemorating the 400th anniversary of his
death.  The concert is scheduled for 4 p.m. in the north gallery.
       * Jan. 20 - March 26: "A Generation of Antiquities: The Duke
Classical Collection 1964-1994" will provide a retrospective look
at the collection, which now numbers over 120 pieces ranging in
time from the Bronze Age to the late Roman empire.
       * Jan. 20 - March 26: "Designing Women: Textiles from
Ancient Peru" will feature selections from DUMA's extensive
collection of ancient South American textiles in the upper foyer
gallery.
       * Saturday, Jan. 28: a day-long symposium will be held on
Greek vase painting in the north gallery.
       * April 14 - May 28: "Contemporary Art at Duke VI:
Nicaraguan Painting Now" will be part of the continuing series of
student-curated exhibitions.  The show will examine the work of
seven contemporary painters over the past 30 years.
       * June - August: "New Art in the Triangle: A Juried
Exhibition of Works on Paper" will be shown.  Guidelines and
application forms will be available for interested artists after
Jan. 15.
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       The Duke University Museum of Art is located on East Campus.
Visitor parking is available behind the museum in a lot off
Buchanan Boulevard.  Museum hours are: 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Tuesday-
Friday; 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Saturday; 2 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday; closed
Monday and on holidays.
       For more information about any of these events, contact the
museum office at (919 ) 684-5135.
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