
{"id":12551,"date":"2010-09-15T13:45:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=12551"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:45:17","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T21:45:17","slug":"exhibit-on-basketball-and-american-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/09\/15\/exhibit-on-basketball-and-american-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibit on basketball and American culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball as an artistic window into American culture and communities will be the topic of a free public program on Sept. 23 in Davis Library on the UNC campus.<br \/>\nThe talk, by Mebane photographer and UNC alumnus Bill Bamberger, will formally open \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ball,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d an exhibit of 16 photographs that he took between 2004 and 2009. The exhibit will be up through 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Bamberger\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s large-format color prints depict basketball hoops in American landscapes, from the deserts of Arizona to the streets of New York to the farms of the American prairie.<\/p>\n<p>The program will begin at 5:45 p.m. on the second floor of Davis after a 5 p.m. reception and exhibit viewing. Bamberger uses basketball as a way to explore the diversity of American culture and the athletic experience that unites communities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ball\u00e2\u20ac\u009d exhibit was co-curated by Ann Stewart Fine Art of Chapel Hill and the library\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Public Art Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Basketball as an artistic window into American culture and communities will be the topic of a free public program on Sept. 23 in Davis Library on the UNC campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12552,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12551\/revisions\/12552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}