On Friday, October 9, author Patrick Montanaro and artist Justyn Iannucci will release the collaborative book “Dreams We Can’t Come Back From” with an intimate reading at Dichotomy Rochester (14 Franklin Street). This collection of Montanaro’s short horror and poetry with illustrations by Iannucci is the perfect usher for this, the spookiest of seasons. Montanaro’s […]
Rebecca Rafferty
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Spotlighting the mundane
A fascinating new show, recently opened at Gallery r, considers the world’s volume of discarded objects and sidelined creatures. In “New Sense,” artist Cecily Culver explores how the non-human world almost imperceptibly brushes against our own, and imagines the strange sentience of non-human experience. Much of the work is drawn from Culver’s thesis project, “Other […]
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RoCo to host Rochester Biennial
Rochester Contemporary Art Center and the Memorial Art Gallery have announced on Tuesday that The Rochester Biennial, which has been organized by and hosted at MAG for six years, will be organized by RoCo starting in 2017. In the immediate future, Biennials will be based at RoCo, but they won’t necessarily always be held at […]
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George Eastman House announces new name, logo, website
The George Eastman House has announced that it has changed its name to George Eastman Museum, and has launched a new website at eastman.org. Leadership at Eastman Museum say the name change reflects all that the institution encompasses: one of the world’s foremost museums of photography and cinema, and the historic mansion and gardens of […]
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Rochester Fringe Festival once again sets attendance record
Attendance for the fourth annual First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival (held September 17 through September 26) hit more than 63,000 people, a new high mark for the Fringe, organizers announced on Monday. And ticket sales were up more than 20 percent. The 2015 Fringe featured more than 500 performances and events; last year’s Fringe included […]
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Highlights for First Friday: October 2
In honor of the haunted month, the harvest, and to herald in the horrors of snow, expect lots of spooky art celebrations and openings for First Friday. The following highlights are just a few of the art openings offered tonight; check out more options listed at firstfridayrochester.org and in our calendar. All events run 6 […]
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Glass artist creates her own Cabinet of Wonders
Axom Gallery’s current show, “Menagerie,” featuring flame-worked glass and metal by Robin Cass, explores concepts of capturing life through a fictitious version of the natural wonderland that surrounds us. The body of work is based on the tradition of the Wunderkammern, or cabinet of wonders — old-timey collections of rare natural specimens shown off for […]
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Rebecca reviews “The Ghost at the Feast” and “Erik & the Wolf”
"The Ghost at the Feast," performed at MuCCC by The Sabotage and Gore Foundation, was a lively, absurdist take on the haunted banquet scene from "Macbeth." In the Fringe booklet blurb, the players promised that "Shakespeare purists will start a protest," but no such rioting occurred. Instead, the company earned giggles and guffaws for continuously […]
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Rebecca reviews “The R&J Project” and "Kindertotenlieder"
"Romeo and Juliet" is one of those productions that is put on arguably too often (and fairly shallowly by high school students), and pop culture is inundated with references to it. For that reason, I’m almost never inclined to see yet another tiresome non-interpretation of it. But the play received an interesting treatment by local […]
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Rebecca reviews Roc Bottom Poetry Slam
Roc Bottom Poetry Slam, presented by RAPA at School of the Arts’ Ensemble Theatre, was an absolute marvel. The show included 10 performers, in solo, duo, trio, and quartet sets, speaking poetic, personal and universal truths with bold and emotional cadence. Ranging from ranting to rapping or speaking softly to singing, and all of that […]
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COMEDY | Bill Maher
Comedian and host of HBO’s “Real Time” Bill Maher will visit Rochester on Sunday, September 27, for a show at the Auditorium Theatre (885 East Main Street). In the biz for more than 20 years, Maher is known for his near decade as the host of “Politically Incorrect,” and for “Religulous,” his 2008 feature-length swat […]
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LITERATURE | Third annual Pub Fair and Litsplosion
As the weather turns, I think fondly of a lit-loving Austin Phelps quote: “Wear the old coat, buy the new book.” Don your shabby duds and seek some pages to keep you company in the cold; head to the Pub Fair and Litsplosion, hosted this weekend at Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince Street). The annual […]
