All images by Rebecca Rafferty.
Rebecca Rafferty
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Art from the weekend past
City check out Axom’s experimental art & music night and The Yards’ Artist Residency
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Alvin Langdon Coburn
Images from Eastman House’s major retrospective of Coburn’s life and work.
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Retrospective explores Coburn’s brief but prolific career
A few weeks remain to catch Eastman Museum’s retrospective of the life and work of photographer Alvin Langdon Coburn. Three galleries full of images, as well as objects from Coburn’s personal life, tell the story of a talented and intrepid young artist. Though Coburn lived a long life (1882-1966), he produced his staggering amount of […]
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ART | “The Magic of Light 2016”
Let Image City Photography Gallery’s popular annual juried show, “The Magic of Light,” carry you through our region’s darker, more dismal months. Featuring 98 photographers exhibiting more than 160 photographs, the show includes portraits of people and places in gloriously lit grayscale, moments of playful interaction between architectural form and its shadows, and light dancing […]
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SPECIAL EVENT | Wine & Chocolate Festival
I’m guessing that only those of you with the sturdiest adherence to your New Year’s resolutions would need any convincing. Personally, after reading the headline, I would only be scanning these paragraphs for the where and when, so I’ll get to it. The festival will take place Saturday, January 16, from 3 p.m. to 9 […]
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RECREATION | Winterfest at Mendon Ponds
Earn your Rochesterian stripes: Defy the urge to hole up for the winter and enjoy some all-weather recreation. There has to be more to the next several months than trudging from home to work, and work to home. Balmy or bitter, snow or not, rain or (fingers crossed) shine, the 21st annual Winterfest at Mendon […]
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Ad Council rebrands as Causewave Community Partners
Rochester Advertising Council announced today that it has rebranded as Causewave Community Partners. This is the first time in 65 years the non-profit, which helps increase the visibility of non-profits, has changed its name. “The organization known for 65 years as the Advertising Council of Rochester is finally taking the advice that we’ve been giving […]
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Ashes to Ashes
David Bowie passed away at age 69 Sunday after an 18-month battle with cancer. Rebecca Rafferty writes about her lifelong love of the influential musician.
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Memorializing a master
Two shows currently on view at RIT galleries explore the work and legacy of the late artist and educator Keith Howard. Hosted in two parts at Bevier Gallery (James E. Booth Hall 7A, RIT Campus, 73 Lomb Memorial Drive) and Gallery r (100 College Avenue), “Flux: Keith Howard and His Legacy” commemorate the life and […]
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Geva names new executive director
Geva Theatre Center today announced Christopher Mannelli will be the next Executive Director and co-CEO with Artistic Director Mark Cuddy. Following Geva’s national search, Mannelli comes to Geva from Victory Gardens Theater in Chicago — a 41-year-old, Tony Award-winning institution dedicated to new plays and playwrights, where he served as managing director for five years. […]
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Milton Glaser poster show
Installation views of “Milton Glaser: Posters from the Vignelli Center for Design Studies Archive,” which is on view in RIT’s University Gallery through January 26.
