The art museum formerly known as the Albright-Knox Gallery rebrands, expands and strengthens its inclusive contemporary position.
Albright-Knox Gallery
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Decorating thoughts
Albers, de Kooning, Hoffman, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Pollock: Though many of these artists’ works are nearly 100 years old, they are still quite often misunderstood and even more often disliked. Still, older works as well as many contemporary examples of abstract art are the focus of a major exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Extreme Abstraction. […]
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Feeling blue (and white, and gray, and green) in Buffalo
Glass activism Private Visions, Utopian Ideals: The Art of Howard Ben Tré is an ambitious exhibition including sculptures, works on paper, and a selection of drawings, models, and photographs of Ben Tré’s public art projects. And although the exhibition space is relatively small, the work, for the most part, is not. Patrons of the Buffalo […]
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A tale of two landscape artists
Of two artists on display at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo, one is very popular and well known; the other is hardly known at all. When you hear the name Georgia O’Keeffe, you tend to immediately think of the wrinkle-faced old painter who lived in the desert and painted flowers. But when you hear the […]
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Bodies taking up space
Our bodies are our obsessions. We feed them, bathe them, decorate them. When our bodies break down we fix them. We project our bodies into and through space literally as well as through a variety of media. As Andy Warhol once said, “before media… there used to be a physical limit on how much space […]
