Visit the Ackland Art Museum at UNC Chapel Hill
The Ackland Art Museum has some stunning exhibits this season, and they’re worth going out of your way to see. From January 11th to February 19th of 2017, the Ackland Art Museum will celebrate the 80th birthday of superstar American composer, Philip Glass, by installing a special exhibit. The exhibit demonstrates the role visual artists have played in Glass’s life and work through seven contemporary art installations. Not just for fans of Philip Glass or classical musicians, this exhibit also has the purpose of showing us, through allegory, the emotional and mental impact of art upon the human mind. Our talents carry over to each other, and span hundreds, sometimes thousands, of years, in just as many variations and mediums.
From Jan. 27th to April 9th, 2017, The Art of Ronald Lockett is displayed in the exhibit titled “Fever Within.” This exhibit tells a story that is universal to all of us; it’s as if we experience it as a whole entity, the concept giving rise to the general phrase, “the human condition.” Ronald Lockett’s story creates a fascinating exhibit of expression out of a childhood in Alabama to explorations of world-scale violence never before seen like Hiroshima, racial conflicts, political upheaval on a continental scale, and the descent of religious faith and worship. But it’s not just about what he saw in our past. It is about what he experienced in his own, when an HIV/AIDS diagnosis led him into contemplations of mortality, salvation, and remembrance. At the time Lockett died in 1998, at the age of 32, he was still largely unrecognized for creating over 400 pieces of original art, and remained obscure. In the classical afterlife concepts of ancient Greece, immortality was achieved for as long as others (and how many of them) remember your name.
Visit the website for more information about the Ackland Art Museum, hours of operation and admission.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
101 S. Columbia Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27514
919.966.5736
