The story of art has almost always walked hand-in-hand with the story of money. Wealthy patrons have commissioned the most intrepid artists throughout the centuries, making celebrities of painters, sculptors and their subjects. Artists’ life works have been immortalized in private collections and museums, some appreciating in value beyond comprehension. The current exhibition on view […]
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When wheels are wings
Along with the sweetness of spring comes the freedom of flying through the city on two wheels. As soon as the weather sustains 60 degrees for a few consecutive days, bicycles will join automobiles — and the more hardcore cyclists who’ve been out in almost every condition nature has thrown at us. Through May 15, […]
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More than this
An already stylish studio and gallery shared and operated by Rick, Robin, and Margot Muto, AXOM Gallery is becoming even more so with the integration of a design showroom. With a formal opening of AXOM Objects coming up in May, Robin has already begun showcasing a variety of elegant and useful modern objects — from […]
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The stirrings of life
Oxford Gallery’s current show, “The Heart’s Unrest,” features the cheerfully colorful work of Buffalo-based artist Charles Houseman and Rochester artist David Dorsey, and provides the perfect mental escape while Rochester’s weather decides if it’s springtime or not. Gallery director Jim Hall says he pulled the show’s title from a quote by Austrian physicist and philosopher […]
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Glass class
The Corning Museum of Glass opened its new Contemporary Art + Design Wing to the public on Friday, March 20. Following remarks and a ribbon cutting, those in attendance were released to explore the bright and airy space, which adds 26,000 square feet of exhibition area as well as a 500-seat live glass demonstration facility […]
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Lose thy bearings
Denton Crawford’s work finds a playground in the tension between the impossibility of utopia and our everlasting striving toward it. His current solo show, “You’re Not Here,” which closes tonight at Joy Gallery (498 West Main Street), includes older mixed media paintings and drawings, as well as new installations. The space has been transformed into […]
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Foregrounding artifice
Much like photography, accounts of the past have a tendency to project a sense of authority. We may absorb each as bare fact, instead of what it really is: an account, a version, a distortion through an individual or cultural lens. The current exhibit of David Levinthal’s photographs in the Eastman House’s Project Gallery explores […]
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The writings on the wall
When WALL\THERAPY and related events started about four years ago, Rochester joined the ranks of cities who have officially embraced the street art movement. Generally, the more than 70 murals that have been created since the project began have received positive responses from the public, but there have been a couple of hiccups. Rochester’s walls […]
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Theater of the wild
You could spend your life in pursuit of genuine wilderness, without the promise that you’ll ever actually experience it. The buffer between humans and the rest of the natural world is, if incomplete, fairly ubiquitous, even when we don’t detect it at first. The revelation of this illusion is what kicked off “Glass Mountains,” Sean […]
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Compressed expansiveness
Four decades of work by ceramic artist Wayne Higby are represented in the Memorial Art Gallery’s show, “Infinite Place,” and honestly, there’s not a thing he’s done that I didn’t feel all swoony about. The exhibition begins with a trio of examples from Higby’s early work, created in the late 1960’s, and inspired by world […]
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“Da Vinci — The Genius”
Humble beginnings don’t predict all there is to a life. Leonardo da Vinci was born out of wedlock to a peasant woman and a respected notary, but due to a precocious talent that exposed him to the movers and shakers of the day, he would go on to became one of the most celebrated figures […]
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Metamorphic metaphor
The production of glass has shaped and sharpened human senses throughout history. Glass lenses have allowed us both to correct vision and glimpse the unfathomable depths of the universe. And as an art medium, glass has been used to symbolize every comprehensible and confounding human experience. “The Next: A Studio Glass Movement Continuum,” currently hosted […]
