Photographer captures gritty, glorious life in the city
Alex Miokovic
Posted inArts & Entertainment
“Kim Jones: A Retrospective”
The Mudman comes to University of Buffalo’s art gallery
Posted inArts & Entertainment
“Georgia O’Keeffe: Color and Conservation”
Art The art — and industry — of Georgia O’Keeffe Last weekend the MemorialArtGallery opened the touring exhibit Georgia O’Keeffe: Color and Conservation.Just a year and a half ago the Albright-Knox in Buffalo hosted an O’Keeffe exhibit. Of course, O’Keeffe’s career was a long one. She was a prominent figure for seven decades and produced […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Alan Singer at Gallery at Bausch & Lomb
Art Two new exhibitions, one currently at the Gallery at Bausch & Lomb Place and an upcoming one at the Mercer Gallery at MCC, feature the work of Alan Singer. Meta/morph at Bausch & Lomb juxtaposes Singer’s watercolor and digital transfer monoprints with Tarrant Clements’ predominately wood, wire, and oil paint constructions. At the Mercer, […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Buffalo bound
Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin (through September 10) and Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 (through October 22) | Albright-KnoxArtGallery, 1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo | Wednesday-Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Fridays til 10 p.m.) | $8-$10; children 13 and under, free; and Fridays 3-10 p.m., free | (716) 882-8700, www.albrightknox.org. Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art (through September […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
“Uncluttered” by Dan Neuberger
A strong showing by a photographer who shoots for the love of it
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Willie Cole mines iron
In between college graduations and festival openings, make time to see the work of Willie Cole at the JohnsonMuseum on the Cornell University campus. The exhibition is a thoughtful presentation of works of art by an African-American artist who turns ordinary domestic objects into powerful evocations of West African art, history, and mythology. The iron, […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Kneadful things
There is something about photography that allows the viewer to associate it with what it represents. There is a kind of transparency that allows the belief that somehow the photographic image is unmediated. It’s as if when we look at a photograph, we are in the presence of the thing itself. Of course, we all […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Pictures of a thousand words
French writer Anatole France was asked by someone admiring his library if he had read all the books in his collection. France responded by saying, “Not one-tenth of them. I don’t suppose you use your Sèvres china every day?” Literary critic Walter Benjamin subsequently used the quote in “Unpacking My Library,” an essay in which […]
