“Question Bridge: Black Males” October 3 through November 16 Rochester Contemporary Art Center, 137 East Avenue Opening reception: October 3, 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday: 1-5 p.m., Friday: 1-10 p.m. | $2, free to members | 461-2222; rochestercontemporary.org When giving public talks about the video project, “Question Bridge: Black Males,” artist and educator […]
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Art Review: “The Opposite of Concrete”
Abstract art is a challenge to approach, and more than once I’ve overheard a frustrated dismissal of the entire genre. But the reward of spending time with a bewildering puzzle can be great. The various reasons that abstract art is important are explored in a fascinating letter by art critic Jerry Saltz. Abstraction is a […]
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“New Ghosts for a New Age: Yoshitoshi’s ‘New Forms of 36 Ghosts'”
When the long-isolated Japanese society was opened to the West in 1868, fundamental shifts in the social structure, politics, military, and economy transpired. Master woodcut artist Tsukioka Yoshitoshi was an eyewitness to the conflict and change, and while many artists of his day reflected these shifts, Yoshitoshi spent his final years immortalizing Japan’s history and […]
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Signs of the times
Modern culture is chock full of short attention spans that are over-inundated with constantly-refreshing waves of images. A designer is tasked not only with capturing the essence of the article or product, says freelance graphic designer Adam Maida, but with engaging a potential audience, showing them why they should take the time out of their […]
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Wild wood
“Everybody has a place that they go to, that they would like to immerse in,” says sculptor Jason Tennant. Though spectacular and moving, our moments in those spaces are fleeting, few, and far between, he says. Tennant finds his solace and his fascination in the woods and fields, in lakes and streams. “My whole life […]
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Hine’s modern subjects
A large part of Lewis Hine’s photographic focus was dedicated to being a witness to and voice for the voiceless. It would be easy to view the Hine exhibit with a sense of satisfied finality about horrific labor conditions and human rights violations, but as described by Renán Salgado, Human Trafficking Specialist with the Worker […]
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“Lewis Hine”
Twentieth-century photographer Lewis Hine focused largely on labor, with two equally important aims: envisioning and advocating for social change, and celebrating the progress humankind makes when individuals work well together. Recently returned from a three-year, international tour, and currently on view at George Eastman House, is an exhibit of Hine’s photographic prints and materials drawn […]
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“State of the City”
The work of a gallerist is never done. Immediately following the de-installation of Rochester Contemporary’s annual “6×6” fundraising exhibition — which required the patching of tens of thousands of thumbtack holes — the staff at Rochester Contemporary went and put hundreds more pinholes in the walls, in order to present the massive installations featured in […]
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Changing of the gallery guard
At the beginning of its second hundred years, the Memorial Art Gallery considers its position in the Rochester community.
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Fresh Paint
Rochester’s annual, week-long mural-making festival, Wall Therapy, kicked off officially on Friday, July 18. Most of the out-of-town artists have arrived and are now working on their large-scale public artworks under this year’s portraiture theme. Due to scheduling, a couple more artists will have arrived by midweek and have a later start. Gloomy weather and […]
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Wall Therapy 2014 Coverage
Wall Therapy 2014 is here! The visiting artists, local artists, and their locations are listed below. Some last minute changes may apply — check back with us for updates. Scroll down for links to our Wall Therapy story coverage, blogs, and a photo feed which will track the progress of the murals throughout the following […]
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New initiative brings performances into neighborhoods
The City of Rochester announced a new program today that will bring “pop-up” performing arts events into neighborhood parks and playgrounds. The Art/Life initiative is a partnership between the City and the Multi-Use Cultural Community Center, with support from Young Audiences, that will present eight free, family-friendly performances in different Rochester neighborhoods during July and […]
