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	Raymond Nasher's Portrait in Philanthropy World Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nasher has gone to every length to ensure that the new Nasher Sculpture Center’s galleries and garden built to accommodate the collection will be of commensurate design quality,” says John R. Lane, The Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art.
		Nasher is the founder and chairman of the Nasher Foundation.
		Among the goals of the Foundation are to care for and preserve the Nasher Collection, and to enhance its accessibility to the public; to advance scholarly research, education and conservation for modern and contemporary sculpture; and to develop programs, principally in the arts and in public policy, medical research, and education.
	www.philanthropyintexas.com /03octdec/raymond-nasher.htm (1130 words)

	Duke University - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Duke's special academic facilities: art museum, language labs, Duke Forest, primate center, phytotron, free electron laser, nuclear magnetic resonance machine, nuclear lab, marine lab, and center for engineering, medicine, and applied sciences.
		Nasher Museum of Art, $23 million, opened October 2005.
		Nasher Museum of Art The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University opened in the fall of 2005, replacing the undersized Duke University Museum of Art (DUMA).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Duke_University (3723 words)

	The Seattle Times: Opinion: Art museums flourish by catering to the customer
		Art museums have learned the lessons of successful retailers in that they allow people to visit at all times of day, including evenings and weekends, not at a prearranged time.
		Art museums also have been remarkably successful in attracting younger audiences not only because of the ease of access and low admission, but because of the inclusive nature of the art on view.
		Art museums are repositories of works of great beauty, from magnificent collections of Greek and Roman antiquities to Renaissance paintings, Impressionist masterpieces and early American furniture.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/opinion/2002320703_artmuseums08.html (700 words)

	Art dresses up in San Francisco and Carolina - The Boston Globe
		The museum was built for the California Midwinter International Exposition in 1895 and later named for Michael H. de Young, chairman of the exposition committee and publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle.
		Across country, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, which opened Oct. 2, would fill but a wing of the de Young but is equally exciting to Durham-area residents.
		The former Duke Museum of Art was in a gloomy, unremarkable campus building and got little attention.
	www.boston.com /travel/articles/2005/10/16/art_dresses_up_in_san_francisco_and_carolina (470 words)

	Trustees Approve West Campus Site for Nasher Museum of Art
		In addition to Trask, the committee's members are Nasher; Mary D.B.T. Semans, chair of The Duke Endowment; John Pearce, university architect; and Michael Mezzatesta, director of the Duke University Museum of Art.
		Nasher also is a Duke trustee emeritus and his daughter, Nancy, is a 1979 Duke law graduate and current member of the Duke Board of Trustees.
		The new museum will be a gathering place for students, faculty and the public and is expected to feature permanent collection galleries, a sculpture garden for the exhibition of outdoor works, an atrium and galleries for special exhibitions.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2000/05/nasher519_print.htm (304 words)

	Dallas Museum of Art - Discover
		The neighboring, newly built Nasher Sculpture Center, designed by Renzo Piano and home to one of the world’s most important collections of modern sculpture, opened to the public in 2003 through the exceptional philanthropic gift of Raymond Nasher, who, with his family, is a longtime patron of the Dallas Museum of Art.
		Intended to accommodate rotating installations of art, the House is the result of a close collaboration between the architect and the Dallas collector.
		Rachofsky serves on the Dallas Museum of Art Board of Trustees and is chair of its development committee.
	dmaws.dallasmuseumofart.org /stellent/idcplg?IdcService=SS_GET_PAGE&ssDocName=ID_022184&ssSourceNodeId=1442 (1672 words)

	Museum of Art Hosts Outdoor Sculpture Show
		The Smith College Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of a special temporary outdoor sculpture show, Bronze, Steel, and Stone: Selections from the Nasher Collection.
		The museum building recently closed in preparation for the renovation and expansion of the entire Fine Arts Center complex, of which the museum is a part.
		In addition to collecting, Patsy Nasher was also an adviser to a number of arts organizations, including the Smith College Museum of Art, where she served as a member of the museum's Visiting Committee from 1984 until her death in 1988.
	www.smith.edu /newsoffice/releases/nasher.html (473 words)

	artnet Magazine - Artnet News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Giacomo Medici, an Italian art dealer who had worked with the Getty in the past, was convicted of conspiring to traffic in looted antiquities last year and sentenced to 10 years in jail.
		The Museum of Contemporary Art in North Miami is growing, planning an expansion to its current facility designed by a "well-known architect," to be announced, as well as opening a satellite space in Miami’s booming Wynwood Art District.
		Basualdo is currently a professor of art and design at the Universitá IVAV in Venice, and organizer of "Tropicália: Revolution in Brazilian Culture (1967-1972)," which opens at the Chicago MCA in October.
	www.artnet.com /magazineus/news/artnetnews/artnetnews9-27-05.asp (916 words)

	The Newtown Bee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		On loan from Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art, the exhibition was first shown at Duke in 1996 as part of a cooperative cultural exchange between Israel and North Carolina.
		Beginning Monday, January 10, the museum will be closed for approximately one week to dismantle and remove "Holy Land" and "St Peter's." The museum will return to its winter schedule, open Wednesday to Sunday, featuring its extensive historical collection and temporary shows.
		Museum Director Larry Sowinksi said the event was an opportunity for children to learn about Catholic art and culture, as well as the Knights of Columbus.
	www.newtownbee.com /Features.asp?s=Features-2004-12-29-12-00-20p1.htm (992 words)

	Durham Bull's Eye e-news: Plans Move Ahead for Durham History Museum
		Historical museums are the most popular type of museum, with 35% of travelers nationally surveyed by Opinion Research Corporation preferring history museums over all other types of museums.
		Art museums, like the forthcoming Nasher Museum of Art at Duke and the North Carolina Central University Art Museum, are popular with 22% of American adult travelers, and even more popular with women (28%) than men (16%), as well as the more educated, affluent, cultural travelers, like the average Durham visitor.
		Art museums are also popular with residents, with 35% of residents visiting art museums in their community in any given year.
	www.durham-nc.com /bullseye/Vol4Issue10/histmuseum.htm (590 words)

	Antiques and the Arts Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The anchors of the new museum campus are the original 1916 building and a 1971 addition.
		Joining the components of the museum complex will be a cantilevered glass canopy forming a 38,000-square-foot courtyard, which will be the starting point for visitor paths through the museum.
		Museum projects include the Queens Museum in New York, the Fortabat Museum in Buenos Aires, the Tampa Museum of Art and Duke University's Nasher Museum of Art.
	www.antiquesandthearts.com /TT0-03-04-2003-12-01-15 (683 words)

	The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University to Open Oct. 2, 2005
		The Nasher at Duke is named in honor of the family of Raymond D. Nasher, an internationally prominent art collector and philanthropist who graduated from Duke in 1943.
		The museum’s predecessor, the Duke University Museum of Art, was founded in 1969 and was housed in a former science building on East Campus until May 2004.
		The museum is located at Anderson Street and Duke University Road between Duke’s East and West campuses, adjacent to the 55-acre Sarah P. Duke Gardens, one of the region’s most popular visitor destinations.
	www.dukenews.duke.edu /2004/12/nasheropening_1204_print.htm (1013 words)

	Anne L Schroder, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Associate Curator, Nasher Museum of Art- Duke University
		Anne L Schroder, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Associate Curator, Nasher Museum of Art- Duke University
		Anne L Schroder, Adjunct Assistant Professor and Associate Curator, Nasher Museum of Art
		Her research specialty is eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century French art.
	fds.duke.edu /db/aas/AAH/faculty/schroder (332 words)

	Plein Air
		Art and architectural walking tours of historic Bucks County, New Hope, PA. focuses on the Pennsylvania Impressionists, the New Hope Modernists and this region as a major American art colony in the 19th and 20th centuries.
		Outstanding examples of 20th-century art, taken from the permanent collection at the Pier Arts Centre in Orkney, are coming to Aberdeen Art Gallery as part of a UK tour while their Stromness home undergoes a major redevelopment.
		The Woodmere Art Museum "cut its teeth" in the 1940s to 1960s with a sterling and steadfast sequence of exhibitions of the Pennsylvania Impressionists, at a time when few other institutions recognized their significance.
	zpla.fimc.net (1751 words)

	Newsroom \| Press Releases
		In Raleigh, the North Carolina Museum of Art is contemplating raising roughly $89 million to expand its existing 181,000 square feet of space.
		The Nasher Museum of Art on the Duke University campus in Durham is drumming up money for a $20 million Rafael Vinoly-designed museum and a $10 million endowment.
		And at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Ackland Art Museum is planning an $18 million to $20 million expansion.
	www.ncarts.org /press_release.cfm?ID=53 (629 words)

	Townhall.com :: AP - Duke's Nasher Museum to Open This Weekend (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There was certainly nothing like the 65,000-square-foot museum designed by architect Rafael Vinoly on campus when Nasher wrote a column for the student newspaper in the 1940s called "Time to Think." In it, he called for more arts and thought it essential that Duke look for a way to bring a museum to campus.
		Nasher, a 1943 Duke graduate, said he believes the new museum will become an equal of other well-known university art museums, including Harvard's Fogg Art Museum.
		Likewise, Andy Warhol portraits of Patsy Nasher and their three daughters _ Andrea, Joanie and Nancy _ have also hung only in the hallway outside Nasher's bedroom since they were done in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
	www.townhall.com /news/ap/online/entertainment/other/D8CTHM6G0.html (650 words)

	Smart Museum of Art \| The University of Chicago
		From the Early Christian material culture of Egypt and the Eastern Roman empire and the devotional art of Gothic Europe to the Celtic revival of the nineteenth century, medieval art shifted from iconic religious image to historical tribute.
		This exhibition was co-organized by the Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and the International Center of Photography, New York, in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the Asia Society, New York.
		In Chicago the exhibition was presented at two venues: the Smart Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and continued on an international tour.
	smartmuseum.uchicago.edu /exhibitions/2004.shtml (1141 words)

	Small Business - Deep in the Art of Texas - FORTUNE SMALL BUSINESS - Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A successful real estate developer and art collector, Nasher recently founded the $70 million Nasher Sculpture Center, a 55,000-square-foot museum that displays works from his private collection.
		Nasher and his late wife, Patsy, began collecting art in the 1960s, and in the following decades they amassed works by Matisse, Picasso, and Rodin, as well as by contemporary artists, including Richard Serra and James Turrell.
		The nonprofit gallery, fully financed by Nasher, was designed by Renzo Piano, one of the architects of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris and winner of the 1998 Pritzker award, the highest honor in architecture.
	www.fortune.com /fortune/smallbusiness/articles/0,15114,1032112,00.html (480 words)

	Kimerly Rorschach, Adjunct Professor of Art History and Director Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University- Duke ...
		She was Director of the University of Chicago's David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art from 1994-2004 and before that held curatorial positions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia.
		Her interests include 17th and 18th century art, particularly in England; museum history and theory; patronage and collecting; the art market; art law; and legal, economic, and political issues in museums and the history of art.
		She is a Trustee of the Association of Art Museum Directors, which represents 200 art museums in the U. S., Canada, and Mexico, and she chairs the Association's Government Affairs Committee.
	fds.duke.edu /db/aas/AAH/faculty/krorscha (180 words)

	AIArchitect, October 17, 2005 - Project Watch: Blue Devil Realizes Campus Dream with Nasher Museum
		The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University opened October 2 with a new building by Rafael Viñoly, FAIA, his first free-standing completed art museum in the country.
		The Nasher at Duke is the first stand-alone museum in the school’s 80-year history, and long a dream of the building’s patron and namesake, Raymond D. Nasher, who first identified the need for the museum when he was a student at the university in the 1940s.
		The Nasher at Duke is adjacent to Duke’s Central Campus and between the East and West campuses to serve the Duke community and the people of Raleigh-Durham.
	www.aia.org /aiarchitect/thisweek05/tw1014/tw1014pw_nasher.cfm (873 words)

	Duke Magazine-Wild and Wooly-Selections from the Nasher Museum of Art-November/December 2004
		Duke Magazine-Wild and Wooly-Selections from the Nasher Museum of Art-November/December 2004
		Instead of denigrating their coarse ways, art and literature began to emphasize their strength, endurance, and ability to survive in the wilderness.
		The Nasher Museum of Art's wild man, circa 1500, is armed with a staff and shield covered with coarse bark.
	www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /dukemag/issues/111204/depgal.html (326 words)

	Joan Miro Online
		Joan Miro in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
		Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/miro_joan.html (714 words)

	Duke > Office of the Provost > Strategic Plan
		Arts and Sciences researchers in the department of psychology-experimental who work on animal models will also be housed in this facility, vacating prime West Campus space and solving persistent compliance problems resulting from housing research animals in unsuitable space.
		The Center for Human Genetics is another major component of the IGSP and has been created by the medical school to provide core resources and expertise in study design, database management, family and patient ascertainment, and statistical and molecular analysis necessary to carry out large-scale genetic analysis of human patient populations.
		The Nasher Museum will house the Duke University Museum of Art, making Duke’s principal collections of original art available for education, scholarship, and public exhibition.
	www.planning.duke.edu /facilit.htm (3664 words)

	B C A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In addition to rotating exhibitions and international art symposia, the Center presents cooperative programs with the Dallas Museum of Art, the Dallas Symphony, the Orchestra of New Spain, the Arts Magnet High School, the Dallas Wind Symphony and Black Dance Theatre.
		In 2001 he pledged $10 million to Duke University to build the Nasher Museum of Art, which is being designed by Rafael Viñoly and is scheduled to open in fall 2005.
		He serves on the Advisory Board of the Dallas Center for the Performing Arts and is part of the leadership team raising $275 million for the Dallas Arts District, which will include an opera house, multiform theater, city performance hall, a redesigned Artist Square and a free-form performance area.
	www.bcainc.org /includes/awards_articles.asp?id=46 (474 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The museum will have a strong focus on modern and contemporary art and will be a cornerstone in Duke's commitment to support the arts on campus and in the Durham-Raleigh community.
		Rorschach is an associate professor in the University of Chicago's department of art history and a lecturer at the University of Chicago law school, where she co-teaches a course in art law.
		She is expected to pay special attention to building the modern and contemporary art collections, developing a comprehensive program of special exhibitions, and working with artists, critics, and scholars to create an exciting array of related programs for students, faculty members, and the community.
	www.dukemagazine.duke.edu /dukemag/cgi-bin/printout.pl?date=070804&article=depgaz7 (648 words)

	Paul Gauguin Online
		Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
		Paul Gauguin in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
		Fine art posters are a huge, huge bargain, so don't worry about spending more for the frame than the poster.
	www.artcyclopedia.com /artists/gauguin_paul.html (961 words)

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