Some time in 1988 I learned one of my biggest lessons in aesthetics. I was living in the Los Angeles area and went to a movie theater in Century City to see Terry Gilliam’s film, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen. I walked away enthralled, excited, and inspired. The next night, wanting to share my enthusiasm […]
Rochester Contemporary
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A promise of post-partum diversity
Group shows are rarely just about the artwork. They’re mostly about some overarching idea that the work helps to illustrate. Of course, the work itself plays a role as viewers decide what they like or what they don’t like. There is also the matter of how objects work together as a cohesive whole. Is […]
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Sweet inspiration
Sweet inspiration Sally Wood Winslow, director of the Center at High Falls Fine Art Gallery, didn’t care that Ben Schamberger brought his candy table in past the recent Text and Texture exhibit’s deadline. “We looked at it and said ‘we have to have it,’” she says. The table looks like something out of an […]
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Everybody was Kung Fu fighting
Art and privilege have a lot in common. To produce images, you must be connected to the apparatus that allows images to be made, disseminated, and seen. When dealing with images of the underprivileged, the artist is responsible for the context in which the images will be viewed. For some, it may be just enough […]
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Time to grow up: RoCo comes of age
<pIn 1977 a new cultural institution, the Pyramid Arts Center, opened in Rochester. After 27 years, seven locations, and a name change to Rochester Contemporary (RoCo), its mission remains basically unchanged: to encourage the redefinition of contemporary art in Upstate New York. As the arts center prepared for its big re-opening on Friday, October […]
