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NC MUSEUM OF ART David Menconi for Triangle Today Have you seen the Obama portraits? The official portraits of former President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama were unveiled Monday at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The former President’s likeness was painted by Kehinde Wiley, who is known for portraying African-Americans in the style of old Dutch Master painters, often with elaborate colorful patterns in the background. This one is no exception, showing the subject before a leafy backdrop of green leaves punctuated with brightly colored flowers. AY’S OD LE T
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s ANNE LINDBERG: THE LONG SUN CAM Raleigh, 409 W. Martin St., Raleigh Included in admission Anne Lindberg’s solo exhibition, the long sun brings light, materiality and rhythm to ruminations on the sun in context, eliciting qualities that are optical and spatial, emotional and tangential.
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The Durham Green Flea Market 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. indoors and out, rain or shine shopping — novelties, clothing, toys, auto accessories, cell phone accessories, computers and computer repair, appliances, used tires, incense, body oils, crafts, artificial flowers, tools, yard sale items. durhamgreenfleamarket.com
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Edwards Mill Bar & Grill Restaurant features a large dining room and a sports bar with 12 flat screen TVs offering MLB Xtra Inning, NHL Center Ice and NFL Sunday Ticket. Kick back and enjoy your favorite food and drinks.
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50 minute tours at 12:30 and 2:30 Sundays. With a 164-acre campus, two buildings, an amphitheater, a park nd several gardens, the NCMA offers much to see and do. This free guided tour introduces visitors to the museum buildings, central plaza and related works of art. No reservations necessary.
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MEREDITH COLLEGE HUES IRIS ALUMNAE ART EXHIBITION
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When: On view until March 11 Reception: Feb. 27, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., free If you love culture, this one is for you. Themed Meredith Hues Iris, a nod to the iconic college symbol, “Meredith College Hues Iris Alumnae Art Exhibition” is a must-see. Back story: In 1968, Meredith College alumna Loleta Kenan Powell, class of 1941, developed and registered an iris hybrid she named Meredith Hues — the floral token a perennial signifying continual, lifelong abiding. “This exhibition goes beyond the surface of exploring Powell’s creation,” says Gallery Director and Associate Professor of Art Lisa F. Pearce. “Beyond the first glimpse
of representational flower forms lies work throughout the gallery pushing political topics of gender identity, sexuality and women’s roles.” “Alums spanning the past four decades are represented,” offers Pearce. And while the theme is the pretty perennial, “artists took creative liberties with the form, symbolism and conceptual narrative of the flower as a symbol of Meredith and women,” she adds. A reception will take place Feb. 27 at the Gaddy-Hamrick Art Center Weems Gallery. As you add the gallery stop to your calendar, Pearce posits why “Meredith College Hues Iris Art Alumnae” is a must-go. Challenge yo’ mind “This ain’t your mamma’s flower show! ‘Ladylike’ by Emily Beck (2001) has us face to face staring into six mirrored signs depicting the traditional symbol for women with words such as neurotic, hormonal and other terms less ‘ladylike’ for me to state. Juxtapose this with Ashlynn Browning’s (2000) ‘Geoform Iris’ in her Browning stylistic approach, but representational/abstraction of this iris’ structure and form.”
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