Updated Monday, May 13, at 3:20 p.m. The Planning Commission will not be taking up the application for the proposed University Avenue complex during its May 20 meeting. The Preservation board will instead make its recommendation during its regularly scheduled June 5 meeting, and the application will go before the Planning Commission on June 17, […]
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City should turn down University Ave. project
For more on this topic: See Christine Carrie Fien’s “Rochester’s apartment boom” in this week’s news section. The owners of Craft Company No. 6 have written a letter in opposition to the project. It’s not an attractive piece of property right now: a blacktopped parking lot and a mid-1920’s stucco house on University Avenue, to […]
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NOTA opposes apartment plan for University Ave.
The neighborhood association for the Neighborhood of the Arts has released the results of a survey conducted on a proposed apartment building on University Avenue. NOTA has also come out against the Morgan Management proposal, but says in the survey report that the association would be open to working with Morgan to find a more […]
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The 2013 High Falls Film Festival
Established in 2001, the High Falls Film Festival was originally conceived with the intent of highlighting the contributions of women in all aspects of the film industry.
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George Eastman House announces new executive director
Thursday afternoon the George Eastman House announced the appointment of its new director at a press conference held on the front steps of the East Avenue mansion. Dr. Bruce Barnes will serve as the 8th Ron and Donna Fielding Director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film starting in October. The […]
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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, […]
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George Eastman House’s “Why Look at Animals
When it comes to these artists’ portraits, why not?
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The garden inside the house
It’s a striking image — large, glossy, vibrantly colored. A young girl stands in the lush greenery of a tropical forest; her black skin contrasted against the extreme whiteness of her dress. Punctuating the green is a purple-y pink phallic flower just to the right of the girl’s shoulder, and in her right hand she […]
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The way we see the world
In 1839, two new processes for capturing “reality” were announced, thereby changing forever the way we would see the world. William Henry Fox Talbot presented to the public in London photogenic drawing, or what he first called the paper image, while across the channel in Paris, Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, through the French Academy of […]
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Crime at the museum
As you approach the entrance to the gallery, you can hear Law & Order: Crimes Scenes before you can see anything. It is only after you enter the gallery from the hallway that you immediately encounter six television screens, each continuously playing and replaying the teasers for six different episodes. A couple walks down the […]
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It looks like art, but is it?
Recently opened at the George Eastman House are two new exhibitions that, although not intended to be viewed together, offer interesting insights into thequagmire of contemporary art. Law & Order: Crime Scenes is a cross-examination of crime-scene photography from TV; it investigates perceptions of illusion and reality (see next week’s review of that exhibit). The […]
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The Bridges between film and photography
An intimate exhibition of black-and-white photographs by Jeff Bridges opened at the George Eastman House in July. Whether entirely intentional or not, the exhibit is a subtle companion to Site Seeing: Photographic Excursions in Tourism. It continues to foster our ongoing romance with photographs, and perhaps more importantly, with photographic memory. Pictures is a […]
