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Tuesday, August 31, 1971
Ackland Art Museum feature
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modern contemporary exhibitions
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by Ken Ripley
Feature Editor
Culture is a strange word that means many things to different
people. For the scientist-type, culture might mean something you put
in a petri dish. For others, culture is so highbrow it becomes
unintelligible and boring. For some, culture is merely that uhich raises
eyebrows. Not boring, perhaps, but certainly not polite.
You can think of culture as something out of reach, that vague term
which somehow covers wandering through an art museum, listening to
old music, or reading avant garde literature. And if you can. if that is all
culture means to you, be bored.
Or your definition of culture might include comic books, Chapel Hill
movies, or the latest edition of Playboy. Your tastes of culture might
run to the simply pleasurable things of life.
Whatever you think of culture, however, don't think that you are
here simply to "get" culture. The Tar Heel Feature Page is not here
simply to impregnate you with high falutin' tastes and a classy
vocabulary. If you're just out to get culture-or ignore it-you're liable
to miss out on what culture is really all about.
You are culture. You and the rest of the 18,000 or so students here
with you. The things you do, think about, read, see and dream all make
up this amorphous word "culture." Whatever excites your eyes,
stimulates you mind, moves you to praise or rejection is part of the
cultural life of this campus. And the cultural life of this campus is only
part of a continuum of years and centuries of man's cultural
advances or declines.
Whatever "cultural activities" the Feature Page covers, be they plays,
movies, readings, religious activities, all reflect and express the basic
currents of life on this campus. Our purpose on the Feature Page is to
capture the best qualities of cultural opportunities on campus, to
inform and guide you as you live in and create your own unique
cultural life-style. We aren't just reporting another activity for you to
go to. We are trying to show you part of your culture in action-for
your appreciation or your participation.
You'll have the opportunity. The Ackland Art Museum will be
featuring contemporary works of art all year. The Playmakers are
presenting an ambitious series of plays to both amuse and provoke you.
The Music Department will present the attempts of your fellow
students to convey to you the creative expression of music. The coffee
houses and get-togethers that pop up all over will help you express you.
The campus religious centers are devoted to helping students to
discover the many "answers within." The Feature Page-our reviewers,
our reporters, this editor-will do its best to capture the people, the
feelings, the happenings on campus for your benefit.
Highbrow or lowbrow, that isn't important. Not nearly so much as
just reaching out and becoming a part of those around you-of feeling,
expressing, creating the culture to which you belong.
If you've come to Carolina to merely "become," don't forget the
wonders and joys of what it means "to be."
by Bruce Mann
Asziitznt Fcsrjre Edit r
The contemporary scene and modern
issues receive focus at UNC's own 'iliiam
Hayes Ackland Art Center exhibitions for
1971-1972. With the exception of the
Albrecht Durer 500th anniversary
exhibition, all exhibitions feature
contemporary graphics, sculpture,
paintings, etc. from such diverse artists as
James Ensor, Peter Agostmi. Hans
Richter, faculty artists of the UNC An
Department, and student artists from
across the coutnry.
Reopening today is the summer UNC
Student Exhibition of painting, sculpture,
ceramics and graphics from the graduate
studios, held over through September 12
for the express purpose of allowing the
current student population to view the
show.
Following this, on September 19, a
national circuit exhibition of Belgian
ironic and satiric expressionist James
Ensor's prints, prepared by the
Schickman Gallery of New York, arrives
for viewing through October 1 2.
This marks the first time that all the
prints of James Ensor (1860-1949) have
been collected for concurrent exhibition,
and since the permanent Ackland
Collection presently boasts only two
Enso prints, the current show will be
especially important for local viewers.
October 17th through November 7
brings one of the season's most striking
expositions, the annual Ackland Faculty
exhibition which presents faculty work
from this past summer, followed on
Nobember 14 by the historical exhibition
of Albrecht Durer's graphics from the
Burton Emmett, W. P. Jacocks, and
Ackland Fund Collections in
commemoration of the 500th anniversary
of the great German painter, engraver,
and designer's birth.
Highlighting recent acquisitions and
infrequently seen objects from the
decorative arts and sculpture collections
of the Ackland Art Center (including a
rare fifth century Greek case and a 12th
century Limognes enamel cross) will be
the permanent Ackland Collection
showing, December 12 through January
30.
The second semester, summer, and fall
of 1972 brings forth more contemporary
art in six unusual and intriguing
presentations.
"From Across the State" (Feb. 6 -March
5) come modern paintings from
private collections, offering a chance for
art lovers to see privately-held works
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Student Exhibition by former art education graduate student, James C. Handy. Mr.
Handy is currently teaching in the Chapel Hill City School system on an internship
arrangement. (Staff photo by Johnny Lindahh
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