It looks like The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in Durham is hosting a new exhibition called "The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl”. Their aim is to "explore the culture of vinyl records within the history of contemporary art…[through] sound work, sculpture, installation, drawing, painting, photography, video, and performance." Academia meets art meets music. What more could you want?

Additionally, as stated on Duke's webpage dedicated to the exhibit, “‘The Record’ explores the intersection between visual art and music, considering the vinyl record as a lens through which to view the world.” Sounds pretty cool, doesn't it? Well, that's just the start of it.

The exhibition includes rarely-shown early work and recent and newly-commissioned work by forty-one international and mutigenerational artists including the likes of Laurie Anderson and David Byrne and reportedly, an eighteen-foot metal canoe decorated with red, vinyl 45 rpm records. Most notably (at least in the music realm, however) will be a piece by visual artist Xaviera Simmons called “Thundersnow Road”, which involves several portraits taken in North Carolina scenic landscapes. Moreover, songs that inspired each photo are accompanying each portrait, including songs written originally by My Morning Jacket's Jim James (as Yim Yames), TV On the Radio's Kyp Malone (as Rain Machine), Tunde Adebimpe (as Prolex with Ryan Sawyer), and Jaleel Bunton, as well as Superchunk's Mac McCaughan, collaborating with Les Savy Fav's Harrison Haynes and more.

While the “Thundersnow Road” soundtrack will be played at the museum from September through February, there is no word on how the record will be distributed yet. Check out the track list below, and grab a download of "It Makes No Difference", by My Morning Jacket.

"Thundersnow Road" Soundtrack:

1. Rain Machine: "Thundersnow Road"
2. Yim Yames: "Of The Mother Again"
3. Prolex (Tunde Adebimpe and Ryan Sawyer): "Thundersnow Lightworks"
4. IFE: "Home"
5. "Moist" Paula Henderson: "Boxer Farmer"
6. Harrison Haynes and Mac McCaughan: "Murdering a Rock"
7. Simi Stone and Ben Vita: "Take the Light"
8. Austin McCutchen: "Two Tracks"
9. Ben Chace and Paul Defiglia: "Wandering Through the Pines"
10. Jaleel Bunton: "Devil Won't Let Me Ride"

Tracks included in the exhibition but not on the 12-inch release:

1. Katrina Ford: "In Your Arms"
2. Midnight Masses: "The Cross"
3. Matt Whyte/Earl Greyhound: "The Places That Scare You"
4. "Moist" Paula Hendersom: "Kitty Hawk Man"
5. Dragons of Zynth: "Alhambra Metropolis"