Ackland Events

SUSPENDED: Yoga in the Galleries
2020-04-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-04-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-03-30 12:00 - 13:00, 2020-03-23 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Ackland Art Museum has suspended this program until further notice as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website.
Take a break from your day and explore the world of yoga in the beautiful setting of the Ackland! The hour-long session offered most Mondays from 12:00-1:00 p.m. is taught by registered yoga teacher Joanne Marshall. Yoga in the Galleries provides an opportunity to practice a series of gentle yoga poses inspired by the art in the gallery. Beginners are welcome. Yoga mats are provided. Wear comfortable clothing that will allow you to stretch.

SUSPENDED: Guided Tour: Explore the Ackland's Collection
2020-04-11 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-04-05 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-04-04 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-04-02 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-04-01 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-03-29 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-03-28 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-03-27 13:30 - 14:00 and 5 more dates | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Ackland Art Museum has suspended this program until further notice as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website.
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour of the Ackland Art Museum’s collection.
No reservation needed.

SUSPENDED: Guided Tour: Special Exhibitions
2020-04-10 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-04-09 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-04-08 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-04-03 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-03-26 13:30 - 14:00, 2020-03-18 13:30 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Ackland Art Museum has suspended this program until further notice as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website.
Meet in the lobby for a 30-minute, guided tour exploring highlights of our current special exhibitions Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love and Toriawase: A Special Installation of Modern Japanese Art and Ceramics.
No reservation needed.

SUSPENDED: Tai Chi in the Galleries
2020-04-06 13:10 - 14:00, 2020-03-30 13:10 - 14:00, 2020-03-23 13:10 - 14:00 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Ackland Art Museum has suspended this program until further notice as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website.
Join us for Tai Chi in the Galleries, inspired by the renowned Asian art collections at the Ackland!
Tai chi is an ancient Chinese movement practice known to reduce pain and improve your mental and physical balance and well-being. This class uses gentle Sun-style tai chi routines that are safe, easy to learn, and suitable for all ages and fitness levels.
Tai Chi in the Galleries takes place most Mondays from 1:10-2:00 p.m. and is taught by Joanne Marshall, a certified yoga and Tai Chi for Health instructor. All movements are done standing. Wear comfortable clothes and supportive flat shoes.

CANCELED: Ackland Film Forum: "Ash is Purest White" (dir. Zhangke Jia, People's Republic of China, 2018)
2020-03-24 19:00 | Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Ackland Art Museum has canceled this program as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website.
Ash is Purest White
Zhangke Jia, People’s Republic of China, 2018
Introduced by Rick Warner, UNC Dept. of English & Comparative Literature
2h 16m
FILM SYNOPSIS
A tragicomedy initially set in the jianghu-criminal underworld-setting, ASH IS PUREST WHITE is less a gangster movie than a melodrama. With a three-part structure, it begins by following the quick-witted Qiao (Tao Zhao) and her mobster boyfriend Bin (Fan Liao) as they stake out their turf against rivals and upstarts in 2001 postindustrial Datong before expanding out into an epic narrative of how abstract forces shape individual lives, and continues Zhangke Jia’s body of work as a record of 21st-century China and its warp-speed transformations.
TICKETS
Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin St.
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ABOUT THE SERIES
The Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2020 series The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema is organized by the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love (on view through April 12, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Peter Nisbet, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach.

Ackland Art Museum's Annual Luncheon
2020-03-20 11:30 - 13:00 | The Carolina Inn, 211 Pittsboro Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516, United States
With Special Guest Speaker UNC Alumna and Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Denise Murrell
We are proud to announce that the Ackland’s National Advisory Board member, Denise Murrell, will be speaking at our Annual Luncheon this spring. Murrell is a UNC alumna (’76) and she was recently appointed Associate Curator, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Art, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Denise Murrell was born in New York City and raised mainly in Gastonia, N.C. After completing her BS degree at Carolina, she went on to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School (1980) and had an extended career in finance and consulting, culminating as Managing Director of Institutional Investor Research Group, Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (1995–2005).
Murrell’s career took a new direction in the early 2000s when she began studying art history at Columbia University. She earned MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees at Columbia, with her 2014 PhD dissertation forming the basis of Posing Modernity: The Black Model from Manet and Matisse to Today, an exhibition she curated at Columbia University’s Wallach Art Gallery (Oct 2018–Feb 2019) as the Wallach’s first Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Research Scholar (2014–2019). She then served as co-curator of the exhibition’s expansion, Le Modèle Noir de Géricault à Matisse, at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris (Mar–July 2019).
Murrell is the author of the Posing Modernity exhibition catalogue published by Yale University Press, which recently received the Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award for smaller museums, libraries, collections and exhibitions. She has taught art history at Columbia University in New York and Paris, and has given public lectures at numerous museums and universities in the US and Europe.
We hope you are as excited as we are to welcome Denise Murrell as our special guest speaker at our upcoming Annual Luncheon!
Purchase tickets here!

POSTPONED: Art for Lunch: Dr. Jessica A. Boon
2020-03-19 12:30 - 13:30 | Ackland Art Museum, 101 S. Columbia Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Ackland Art Museum has postponed this program as part of our response to the spread of coronavirus COVID-19 and based on recommendations from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Any additional updates will be posted on the Museum’s website.
Join us for an interview-style talk with the Ackland’s Elizabeth Manekin and professor Jessica A. Boon (Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill) to hear how her classes “Mary in the Christian Tradition” and “Medieval and Renaissance Christian Cultures” use objects in the Ackland’s collection.
Bring a bag lunch — and questions of your own — for this lively, conversational program.

Ackland Film Forum: "The Grandmaster" (dir. Wong Kar-wai, 2013, South Korea)
2020-03-16 19:00 | Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
The Grandmaster

Wong Kar-wai, Hong Kong, 2013
2h 2m
FILM SYNOPSIS
Wong Kar-Wai, best known for his films “In the Mood for Love” and “Chungking Express,” is has been a fixture of international art cinema for two decades. Coming to filmmaking from a background in design, Wong’s films are richly textured, stunningly photographed, often driven by mood more than plot, and edited to a contemplative pace. “The Grandmaster” finds him returning to the martial arts genre, which he previously explored in “Ashes of Time.” This story follows the life and times of legendary kung fu master, Ip Man (played by Tony Leung), a figure famous in the West for having been Bruce Lee’s teacher. The film also features Chinese star Zhang Yiyi (known for her breakout role in “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon”) in a role that bridges the genres of martial arts and melodrama. Don’t miss the rare opportunity to see this gorgeously crafted film on the big screen!
TICKETS
Tickets available at the Varsity Theatre, 123 E. Franklin St.
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ABOUT THE SERIES
The Ackland Film Forum’s Spring 2020 series The Patterned Screen: Rhythm and Repetition in Contemporary Asian Cinema is organized by the UNC Global Cinema Studies program in the Department of English and Comparative Literature, and the Ackland Art Museum. The series is presented in connection with the Ackland’s exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love (on view through April 12, 2020). The exhibition is organized by Peter Nisbet, Deputy Director for Curatorial Affairs. Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach.
