Events
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FilmAre You Really My Friend? The movie.
Wednesday June 14, 2017 / 6 – 7:30 pm
In 2011, photographer Tanja Alexia Hollander set out to differentiate the real from the virtual by photographing all 626 of her Facebook friends and exploring the meaning of friendship in the era of social media. Over the course of 5 years, she traveled around the country and around the world, meeting with and photographing her friends in their homes, discovering the ways in which friendship is defined. Along with the formal portraits she produced during her travels across the globe, Hollander shot more than 100,000 digital images and video files on a series of iPhones and “point and shoot” cameras, documenting her travels and experiences.
Las Vegas filmmaker and 2016 Nevada Woman Filmmaker of the Year, Robin Greenspun convinced Hollander to allow her to direct and produce a film documenting the project and her experiences during her travels. Hollander trusted Greenspun with her hard drives containing those 100,000 images and made the movie which is now part of Hollander’s exhibition, Are You Really My Friend? on display at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA).
Join Greenspun and Hollander for a screening of the film Are You Really My Friend? followed by a panel discussion exploring friendship, photography and social media.
For more information, visit: http://areyoureallymyfriend.com/
$7 General / $5 Museum members
Exhibitions
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John Hawley Olds LaGatta GalleryMarking the Infinite: Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia
through May 13, 2018
Marking the Infinite presents the work of nine of Australia’s leading Aboriginal women artists. While many of them have established reputations in Australia, for... more »
Included with Admission
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Feature Gallery NorthEnrique Chagoya: Reimagining the New World
through July 8, 2018
Enrique Chagoya’s provocative works incorporate diverse symbolic elements from pre-Columbian mythology, Western religious iconography, and American popular culture. Chagoya often appropriates the visual tropes... more »
Included with Admission
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CA+E Research Library and ArchivesRandolph Sims: On the Spur of the Moment
through July 15, 2018
Randolph Sims helped American Land Artist Michael Heizer use land moving equipment for the first time on Nevada’s Coyote Dry Lake in 1968. Sims... more »
Included with Admission
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Robert Z. Hawkins GalleryHans Meyer-Kassel: Artist of Nevada
through September 2, 2018
The paintings of Hans Meyer-Kassel (1872-1952) have hung in the castles of kings and the homes of presidents. Still today, decades after his death,... more »
Included with Admission
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Donald W. Reynolds Grand HallTrevor Paglen: Orbital Reflector
through September 30, 2018
The fourteen-foot diameter Mylar balloon hanging in the Donald W. Reynolds Grand Hall is a model for a future artwork by contemporary artist Trevor... more »
Included with Admission
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Earl and Wanda Casazza Gallery, Small Works GalleryCelebrating Israel’s 70th Anniversary: Michal Rovner and Tal Shochat
through October 7, 2018
In 2018, the State of Israel marks seventy years since its founding by the United Nations following World War II. For this occasion, the... more »
Included with Admission
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Donald W. Reynolds Grand HallAndrea Zittel: Wallsprawl
through December 31, 2018
Andrea Zittel’s Wallsprawl #4 (Las Vegas, Next to Nellis Air Force Base), is based on an aerial photograph of the southern Nevada military installation known... more »
Included with Admission
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Ugo Rondinone: Seven Magic Mountains
through December 31, 2018
Across the desert south of Las Vegas, Nevada, rises a large, colorful anomaly. Seven colossal stone forms defy gravity with their teetering formations. The... more »
Included with Admission
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Wayne and Miriam Prim Theater LobbyMaya Lin: Pin River—Tahoe Watershed
through December 31, 2018
For more than two decades Maya Lin (b. 1959) has engaged the vocabulary of a cartographer, making artworks ranging from stand-alone sculptures to room-sized... more »
Included with Admission
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Newton and Louise Tarble GalleryJames Turrell: Roden Crater
through January 6, 2019
James Turrell is an artist whose media are light and space, and for the last forty years he has been carefully sculpting the cinder... more »
Included with Admission
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E. L. Wiegand GalleryHistory of Transportation: A Mural Study by Helen Lundeberg
through January 6, 2019
A highlight of the E.L. Wiegand Work Ethic Collection, American artist Helen Lundeberg’s History of Transportation traces a progression of labor from the Native... more »
Included with Admission
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Carol Franc Buck GalleryThe Nuclear Landscape
through January 6, 2019
Nevada’s past and future are closely intertwined with the nuclear history and politics of the United States. Under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Department... more »
Included with Admission
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Ina Mae and Raymond Rude GalleryArt of the Greater West
through January 6, 2019
The Robert S. and Dorothy J. Keyser Art of the Greater West Collection at the Nevada Museum of Art aims to make connections between artistic... more »
Included with Admission