Chamber ensemble fivebyfive will give the world premieres of two new compositions inspired by the dance-themed photography of James Welling.
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EXHIBITION-LECTURE | ‘Commemorating the Ratification of the 19th Amendment’
Eastman Museum will present a lecture to accompany its current History of Photography installation that commemorates the 19th Amendment.
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A wealth of work
George Eastman Museum’s current exhibit, “Bea Nettles: Harvest of Memory,” marks the artist’s first major retrospective in her 50-year career and highlights a lifetime of femme, maternal, and dream-like works.
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Review: Eastman’s moon photography and ‘Woven’ exhibits
In a way, the exhibits are macro and micro mirrors of one another, representing order and chaos, growth and entropy. And all of life as we know it is suspended between the two, ultimately helpless.
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Megan Joy May’s practical magic
The artist in residence at Flower City Arts Center performed a bloody, earthy ritual of rebirth at the opening of her photo exhibition. May’s artistic practice involves healing the wound of fear and achieving unconditional love for the self and others.
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David Levinthal’s gaze: ‘War, Myth, Desire’ at Eastman Museum
The major retrospective presents the overarching themes present throughout Levinthal’s photographic career. But what does his lens have to say about his subject matter?
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What about the survivors?
Tina Starr’s multimedia exhibit and performance ‘Like a Kiss’ confronts the epidemic of rape and assault
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Portraits of places
I first viewed images from Lucinda Devlin’s daunting photographic series, “The Omega Suites,” in 2012, when the work was displayed at SUNY Brockport’s Tower Gallery. The photographs — sobering, meditative looks into execution chambers and other spaces where the condemned spend their final hours — have always stuck with me. Devlin’s work is being shown […]
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Renaldi pictures the ‘Manhattan Sunday’ at Eastman
Photographer Richard Renaldi’s new body of work, “Manhattan Sunday,” which opened at George Eastman Museum on Friday, straddles the lines between portraiture, street photography, and still life. Featuring photographs made on eerily empty Manhattan streets in the wee hours after the clubs let out, the work also captures the blurred lines between nightlife and daybreak, […]
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Eastman Museum focuses on objects of memory
Photographs have always served as objects of memory: distilling moments of time, faces, and places on material surfaces that may be revisited until the fragile material wears out. Yet in this digital age, when photographic prints are all but obsolete, the very fact that they are objects of memory serves as the subject matter for […]
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Three reasons to visit VSW this week
Over the next few days, Visual Studies Workshop (31 Prince Street) is offering a set of engaging shows and events. On Wednesday, November 30, check out “Bad Objects: A Night of New Media from RIT.” Taking place from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the VSW Auditorium, the one-night show explores digital art and new […]
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Elizabeth Taylor’s inner world on view at Eastman Museum
Although the George Eastman Museum recently announced that its entire collection is now viewable online, don’t let that stop you from making the trip. A number of fascinating shows now on view provide the casual goer and the history enthusiast alike with enough interest to fill a day. And there are of course the borrowed […]
