It’s common knowledge that the George Eastman House of International Photography and Film has a phenomenal and growing collection. In particular, I swoon for the large GEH collection of work by my art crush, Edward Steichen. You may also know that Eastman House is home to the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation, and […]
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ART FEATURE: The Art of Controversy: Inside MAG’s sculpture-park protest
In April 2010, the MemorialArtGallery announced a major commission with Brooklyn-based sculptor Tom Otterness to act as the cornerstone of its planned CentennialSculpturePark. Otterness is currently working on the sculpture, and MAG is preparing the site; the gallery anticipates that it will be installed in the fall of 2012. But a Democrat and Chronicle article […]
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ART FEATURE: “Transitions-Rochester”
Like countless other post-industrial cities suffering from ongoing decline – such as Detroit, Michigan, and Oakland, California – Rochester has a bit of an identity crisis. Meaning, the city is limping along economically, with seemingly very little vision for our current state, let alone our future, while our humiliating mountain of failed projects keeps rising […]
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ART REVIEW: “An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth Patchen”
The Rare Books & Special Collections department at the University of Rochester’s Rush Rhees Library has become one of my mainstays for offbeat, educational art exhibitions. Last week it opened yet another of its excellent shows, "An Astonished Eye: The Art of Kenneth Patchen," the largest-ever exhibition of the graphic art of this relatively obscure, […]
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PROFILE: Roger Ballen at the George Eastman House
Everything we experience in the waking world sticks with us; it tiptoes or rages about inside, or travels deep into the psyche only to be drawn out nightly in dreams and daily in unexpected reverie. Our brains work continuously to make sense of things, even things we might rather ignore. Dream-sense can be unsettling in […]
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ART REVIEW: Saints, pervs, and St. Paul
Saints & PRVRTS Through April 30 1975 Gallery @ Surface Salon, 658 South Ave 466-4278, 1975ish.com Tue-Thu noon-8 p.m., Fri 11 a.m.-7 p.m., Sat10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Saint Paul Project Featuring the work of Kurt Ketchum Through April 6 4Walls @ VenuResto-Lounge & Nightclub, 151 St. Paul St. 442-7824, fourwallsartgallery@gmail.com Mon-Sat 8 p.m.-2 a.m. A […]
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ART REVIEW: “Paintings”
Lux Lounge is known as much for its eclectic and outlandish décor as it is for its mixed and open community. Oh, those lady leg tables, the disco ball, the skulls bearing flowers in their teeth, the themed nights, that address! Like many other "alternative art spaces" (read: the main biz is not an art […]
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ART REVIEW: “Clouds”
Did you know you were out of touch? When was the last time you stood under a vast, open sky, and allowed yourself to be soul-stirred by the utter possibility found in the ever-changing scene? Too many of us don’t spend enough time outside, and when we are out bustling about, ant-like, we don’t look […]
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ART REVIEW: “American Impressionism: Paintings from the Phillips Collection,” and “In Pursuit of Light and Leisure: Impressionist Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection”
It’s exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for most of us to justify taking the time away from the daily anxious rush to enjoy and reflect upon the fragile beauty and fleetingness of this life, in all its sensual richness. We don’t merely take peaceful moments and stunning corners of nature for granted – our culture […]
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ART REVIEW: David Christiana: “Interior Exterior Beings”
Back in the days of the Brothers Grimm, fairy tales weren’t nearly as tidy and uplifting as their modern translations tend to be. The myths arose from cultures when humans were more mortally vulnerable, and not so comfortably removed from the genuinely dangerous everyday elements. There was so much about nature that we couldn’t categorize, […]
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ART: “Family Gathering: A Look Into the World of Eating Disorders”
Eating disorders, along with alcoholism and other addictions, have a precarious place in the realm of disease. The afflicted person is often viewed as selfish, at fault, and the antagonist of the family, rather than a suffering body and mind strongly governed by dependence on substance or ritual. Those who have such a person in […]
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ART: “Not Forgotten: Portraits of Life and Death in Rochester”
A tribute to the 58 Rochestarians murdered in 2007 has taken up residence at the George Eastman House. Photographer Will Yurman won’t be surprised if you don’t recognize any of his subjects, our former neighbors. I won’t be delicate – these are not the kind of people whose passing receives much media coverage. By far, […]
