Around 2,000 people gathered in downtown Rochester’s Washington Square Park on Saturday for the People’s Solidarity Rally. Locals rallied against President Donald Trump, who was sworn into office on Friday, and called for peace and inclusion. A string of speakers — including Mayor Lovely Warren, Assembly Member Harry Bronson, Rochester NOW President Jaclyn Richard, and […]
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Portraits of American heroes on display at Makers
Artist and educator Todd Stahl’s recent body of biographical work, “American Voices,” makes a compelling argument for supporting activists. The 15 assemblages, which are currently exhibited at Makers Gallery and Studio, each portray an American icon who Stahl admires, and he feels that now is a great time to reflect upon their work. The project, […]
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Bill Stephens draws from within
Artist and educator Bill Stephens retired in 2014 after 40 years of teaching art at Webster Thomas High School. “Since the day I retired I’ve been drawing every single day,” he says. This practice has culminated in a solo show of his work, “Drawing from Within,” currently on view at Williams-Insalaco Gallery at FLCC. Stephens’s […]
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Paul Garland’s broken symmetry
Nearly half a century has passed since Paul Garland’s first professional solo exhibition of paintings, which was held in February 1967 at Rochester’s since-closed Janus Gallery. In celebration of Garland’s five decades of intensive studio work and numerous solo shows in New York City, Toronto, Chicago, Buffalo, Minneapolis, and elsewhere, AXOM Gallery is currently presenting […]
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RIT presents Norman Ives retrospective
At a glance, Norman Ives’s artwork is both straightforward and enigmatic. That balance is key to good design — it should command your attention without making you hate its effort. It should tug seductively at your focus more than hit you over the head. A new retrospective of Ives’s oeuvre, concurrently hosted in the Bevier […]
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Print Club of Roc takes Brockport
Our region has an impressive set of printmakers who consistently breathe new life into the medium, whether they employ traditional techniques or flout convention. Under the direction of its energetic president, Adam Werth, The Print Club of Rochester is celebrating its 86th anniversary with an exhibition currently on display at SUNY Brockport’s Tower Fine Arts […]
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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 […]
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GALLERY: ‘Not My President’ rally in New York City
Anti-Trump protests in New York City haven’t stopped since the election results aired last week. Protesters met on 17th Street on Saturday, creating a block of people that stretched past 14th Street and Union Square, as it prepared to march two miles to the Trump Tower on 56th Street. Side streets were blocked and the […]
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GALLERY: ‘Not My America’ rally at the University of Rochester
A “Not My America” rally was held in the University of Rochester’s Eastman Quadrangle on Friday, bringing several hundred people out to protest against the election of Donald Trump and his history of racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, and homophobic remarks and practices. Following opening remarks commemorating veterans (the rally was held on Veterans Day), a moment […]
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Flower City Ballet sees a shift in leadership
Flower City Ballet, a 34-year-old Rochester institution, is in the middle of a leadership change. The school’s founder, Wayne Blatt — who is 75 and affectionately called Mr. B by his students and friends — is currently receiving end-of-life care at Strong Hospital’s Palliative Care Unit and has willed his school to dancer and choreographer […]
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Media art giants on display at MAG
Since taking the reins as director of the Memorial Art Gallery, Jonathan Binstock has made it his mission to flesh out the institution’s contemporary collection with heavy hitters. This trend continues as MAG, last month, announced a new collaboration with independent consulting curator of film and media arts, John G. Hanhardt. Throughout his career, Hanhardt […]
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Were you there? Best of Rochester 2016 Party Photo Gallery
CITY Newspaper threw our annual ‘Best of Rochester’ party at the Village Gate on Tuesday, October 25.
