This week’s calendar preview features events to accompany long stretches at home, with online workshops, lectures, and dance performances.
George Eastman House
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Open (art) house
A look at what will be presented this season by area galleries and museums, many of which are still in virtual limbo.
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Eastman House holds community forum on restoration efforts
Eastman House representatives held a community forum Monday night to explore the history of restoration at the museum and gardens and to discuss plans for future repairs. The forum was attended by members of the public, Eastman House staff and members of the board of trustees, volunteers and docents, representatives from the City of Rochester […]
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WEEK AHEAD: News events for the week of June 22, 2015
Coming up this week: meetings on bike boulevards, future plans for the George Eastman House mansion, and outdoor public storage. The state Legislature is also winding down its session.
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A view anew
In the early 1990’s, as the medium of film’s centennial approached, British filmmaker Peter Greenaway decided to hold a series of 10 exhibitions in capital cities around Europe. Each of these exhibitions would, in its own way, reflect upon the language and the history of film. This first installment, held in Geneva, Switzerland, was about […]
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This festival is dangerous
If you’re not a cinema history buff, it’s entirely possible that you’re unfamiliar with nitrate film. If you’ve heard of it at all, you’re probably most aware of the format’s notorious tendency to catch fire and burn down movie theaters. And over the years, nitrate’s volatile reputation has only grown, thanks to memorable scenes of […]
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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 Birmingham Project” by Dawoud Bey
Currently on view at George Eastman House are 13 photographic diptychs that Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey created to commemorate 6 children killed in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963. Each of Bey’s diptych portraits — of which 16 were created — juxtapose boys and girls the same ages of the victims (11, 13, 14, and […]
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Robert Burley: “The Disappearance of Darkness”
In “The Disappearance of Darkness,” Canadian photographer Robert Burley explores the rapid dissolution of film manufacturing — and film-related industries — as digital photography technology became more commercially accessible to the masses in the mid-2000’s. The show’s work itself straddles the line between the two worlds; Burley shot the images on sheet film, then scanned […]
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Elegy to an era
Two current exhibits at George Eastman House, held in conjunction, explore the history of imaging innovations from Kodak’s early days up through the present, and show an artistic documentation of the end of film manufacturing. Together, these exhibits provide a full picture of the imaging history of Image City, Rochester’s hand in the development of […]
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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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Dryden Theatre to host film series tribute to Philip Seymour Hoffman
The Dryden Theatre at George Eastman House will host a film series tribute to actor Philip Seymour Hoffman beginning in July. Hoffman, a Rochester-area native, died in February. “Hoffman was one of the screen’s most versatile, daring, and prolific actors whose performances were not only a delight to watch, but often transcended the films themselves,” […]
