Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Nasher Museum of Art is the art museum of Duke University, and is located on Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The $24 million museum was designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and opened on October 2, 2005. Annual attendance is about 100,000 visitors. The museum, named for Raymond D. Nasher, was led by founding director Kimerly Rorschach until November 2012. In 2013, former Nancy Hanks Senior Curator Sarah Schroth was appointed as the new Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director. The collection contains more than 13,000 works of art, including works by Ai Weiwei, Christian Boltanski, William Cordova, Petah Coyne, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Sam Durant, Olafur Eliasson, Darío Escobar, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Sean Landers, Hong Lei, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Kerry James Marshall, Dan Perjovschi, Paul Pfeiffer, Robin Rhode, Dario Robleto, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Jeff Sonhouse, Eve Sussman, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Bob Thompson, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, Fred Wilson and Lynette Yiadom Boakye. The museum is dedicated to presenting under-recognized contemporary art from around the world as seen in the exhibition Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode, as well as the first career retrospectives of Barkley L. Hendricks and Dan and Lia Perjovschi. In the 1940s, Duke turned down the bequest of art collector William Hayes Ackland (1855-1940) to build an art museum on campus; his donation went instead to the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Ackland Art Museum.. }
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- Nasher_Museum_of_Art abstract "The Nasher Museum of Art is the art museum of Duke University, and is located on Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina, USA. The $24 million museum was designed by architect Rafael Viñoly and opened on October 2, 2005. Annual attendance is about 100,000 visitors. The museum, named for Raymond D. Nasher, was led by founding director Kimerly Rorschach until November 2012. In 2013, former Nancy Hanks Senior Curator Sarah Schroth was appointed as the new Mary D.B.T. and James H. Semans Director. The collection contains more than 13,000 works of art, including works by Ai Weiwei, Christian Boltanski, William Cordova, Petah Coyne, Rineke Dijkstra, Marlene Dumas, Sam Durant, Olafur Eliasson, Darío Escobar, David Hammons, Barkley L. Hendricks, Sean Landers, Hong Lei, Sol LeWitt, Glenn Ligon, Christian Marclay, Kerry James Marshall, Dan Perjovschi, Paul Pfeiffer, Robin Rhode, Dario Robleto, Ed Ruscha, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Xaviera Simmons, Lorna Simpson, Jeff Sonhouse, Eve Sussman, Alma Thomas, Hank Willis Thomas, Mickalene Thomas, Bob Thompson, Kara Walker, Nari Ward, Andy Warhol, Carrie Mae Weems, Kehinde Wiley, Fred Wilson and Lynette Yiadom Boakye. The museum is dedicated to presenting under-recognized contemporary art from around the world as seen in the exhibition Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode, as well as the first career retrospectives of Barkley L. Hendricks and Dan and Lia Perjovschi. In the 1940s, Duke turned down the bequest of art collector William Hayes Ackland (1855-1940) to build an art museum on campus; his donation went instead to the nearby University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for its Ackland Art Museum.".