The George Eastman Museum acquires world’s largest collection of contemporary Indian cinema, including promotional posters
Rebecca Rafferty
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Contemporary Indian cinema acquisition
Frames and posters from the collection of contemporary Indian cinema newly acquired by Eastman Museum.
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KIDS | Rochester Children’s Book Festival
UPDATE: Elmo will be present at the Festival from 10 a.m. to noon, and WXXI’s Beth Adams will be this year’s celebrity reader. The 19th Annual Rochester Children’s Book Festival will take place on Saturday, November 7, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at Monroe Community College (1000 East Henrietta Road). Young readers will have […]
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The freedom of perspective
At the Seneca Art & Culture Center, people tell their own stories A dream 30 years in the making has finally been realized with the opening of the Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan State Historic Site. The center officially opened on October 24, and will provide a year-round venue for exhibits and programming […]
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LITERATURE | 23rd Jewish Book Festival
This year’s JCC Lane Dworkin Jewish Book Festival is set to take place from Sunday, November 8, through Sunday, November 22, with a theme of “What Are You Reading?” Authors who will attend the festival include Martin Fletcher, Jane Yolen, Nomi Eve, and Dani Klein Modisett. All events will take place at the Jewish Community […]
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Farm to Table
An exploration of the migrant/seasonal worker community in the Rochester area. Group photography exhibition led by Arleen Thaler.
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Social Reportage exhibit focuses on harvest workers
The approaching season of feasts kicked off the tastes of fall, with cheerful trips to famers’ markets for fresh apples and cider, pumpkins and squashes. But as we indulge in the fruits of the harvest, it’s important to think about whose labor brought those fruits to our tables. As the presidential election approaches, our national […]
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Turning the camera on the glitz and glamour
Photo exhibit at Eastman Museum documents the lives of the wealthy.
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When words fail
Post-war artists became not painters of pictures, but painters of conditions, reflecting — in works that properly defied tangibility – the world’s disillusionment. They expressed the mammoth weight of things that are universally experienced but not easily uttered. Viewing these works can therefore be something of a spiritual experience, where we reach out to touch […]
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THEATER | “The Intergalactic Nemesis”
“The Intergalactic Nemesis” is a comedic adventure story that has taken the form of a PBS-produced YouTube series, audio dramas, an audio podcast, graphic novels, and a multi-installment theatrical production. On Friday, October 30, Nazareth College Arts Center (4245 East Avenue) will present “Target Earth,” part one of the live-action graphic novel, which introduces us […]
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FILM | “New York Portrait I, II, III”
Not every story is told by spinning a linear yarn or by zeroing in on specific characters. On Wednesday, October 28, the Dryden Theatre (Eastman Museum, 900 East Avenue) will screen Peter Hutton’s “New York Portrait I, II, III” in 16mm. The three-part work is non-narrative, but rather a collection of impressions of place. Edited […]
