City last weekend stopped in to see Nate Hodge and Cordell Cordaro’s collaborative exhibit of artwork that currently fills the 26th floor of The Metropolitan at One South Clinton Avenue. Formerly called Lincoln First Tower, and then later Chase Tower, the 1974 building is an iconic part of Rochester’s skyline and is known for its […]
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COMMENTARY: After Orlando, I’m still not ready to give up hope
I still hope we can find a way to love each other and live peacefully.
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Two exhibits include paintings of evolving identity
The first time I spied one of Shane Durgee’s paintings was during a punk show at the old Smugtown Mushrooms location near the Public Market. Pushing a narrow path between rooms, drink it hand, I looked up at the wall to see an oddly familiar element from my childhood: embedded in a riot of swirling […]
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Oxford Gallery hosts pantheon of myths
One of humanity’s defining qualities is our power of abstraction. We reflect on the past and fret over the future, and make up stories to help us understand natural phenomena and human behavior. Some of these stories fade into history as scientific explanations take their places, while others become religions. Oxford Gallery’s annual themed show […]
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Prints present pattern, process, and perception
The current exhibit at Deborah Ronnen Fine Art, “Thought
Patterns,” presents the work of nine contemporary artists, each with dramatically different techniques,
styles, and subject matter.
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Photos of time-eaten spaces at MAG
If you maintain a home or property, you know that taking care of the space is an uphill battle. Left alone, order returns to chaos. Photographer Robert Polidori is known for capturing entropy’s progress on man-made structures when, for various reasons, maintenance on those environments has ceased. The Memorial Art Gallery’s current show, “Chronophagia” — […]
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Dance provides catharsis for city youth
Racqueab Overton has the body of a big cat: compact, quick, and powerful. When the 20 year old dances, his shoulders roll and start a wave that reverberates through his arms and continues down into his torso as if he were possessed by an alien creature. After Overton finished performing at a recent Battle for […]
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Photo gallery: City Newspaper’s Best Busker 2016
Crowds filled the South Wedge Thursday evening for City Newspaper’s annual Best Busker competition.
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RIT exhibits master photocomposer
Polish artist Ryszard Horowitz was creating visions of fantastical realities through photography since before the age of Photoshop. He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography who developed boundary-stretching analog techniques and was early to incorporate digital technology into his work. An exhibition of Horowitz’s images currently fills RIT’s University Gallery, and showcases […]
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Paintings glimpse the divine in the mundane
As we move through life, we learn many of the same lessons everyone else has to learn, but the way those lessons reach us, and why they stick, varies widely from person to person. One of my personal favorite lessons is the power and freedom that comes through individual interpretation, which struck me during Kathy […]
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The City Seen: April 16-17
City last weekend visited the Rochester Museum and Science Center for the Genesee Region Orchid Society’s Orchid Show and Sale as well as the Rochester City Ballet studio for its “Fairytales & Fables.” Regardless of how familiar you are with orchids, the various award-winning displays by area societies at Saturday’s show were enough to convince […]
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Trump brings campaign spectacle to Rochester
Donald Trump has no love for the media, for the GOP establishment, for Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders, for President Barack Obama, or for the deals that the US government has made with other countries. Neither do his supporters, which turn out by the thousands for his rallies; the mere mention of any of them […]
