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Admission to special exhibitions is free for Gallery Members. Non-members can view the exhibition for the price of regular Gallery admission. |
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| with ongoing program support from the New York State Music Fund, established by the New York State Attorney General at Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors; General Mills Foundation; the Literature Program of the New York State Council on the Arts; and the Buffalo Bills Youth Foundation. |  |
| *Please note: Parking is now $3 on Fridays from 3 to 10 pm. |
5–7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages: Artists and Authors
6:15 pm
Film: Imagining Ulysses, 2004. Presented by RTE Productions (90 minutes).
Like Joyce's novel, Imagining Ulysses takes the form of eighteen different “episodes” and, like the original, each of these is designed to have its own distinctive theme and style. Contributors include Neil Jordan, Roddy Doyle, Martin Amis, Irvine Welsh, Camille Paglia, Edna O'Brien, and Frank McCourt. Imagining Ulysses won Best Picture at the Chicago Film Festival and Gold Medal at the E.U. Film Festival.
8 pm
Discussion
Laurence Shine and Vincent O'Neill: The Pleasures of Ulysses
8:30 pm
Performance: Performing Joyce
With Vincent O'Neill, Christian Brandjes and the Buffalo Soundpainting Ensemble, Pat Keleher, Josephine Hogan, Bill Sylvester, Kate Olena, and Alexis Machelor.
This performance is sponsored by The Rupp Foundation; Cinegael Buffalo; Kennedy, Stoeckl and Martin; and Eire on the Erie: The North American James Joyce Conference, June 2009, Buffalo, New York.
5–7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages: Awesome Abstractions
Whether you drip paint like Pollock or use bold brushstrokes like de Kooning, chose your abstract gesture and express yourself!
6 pm
Lecture: Abstract Expressionism and Color Field Painting
Associate Curator of Education Nancy Spector will discuss how Jackson Pollock and his colleagues moved the center of the art world from Paris to New York with their creation of large, bold paintings that expressed a new, inner reality in an increasingly unpredictable world.
6:30 pm
Family Tour: The ABCs of Abstract Expressionism
7 pm
Family Tour: The ABCs of Abstract Expressionism
7:30 pm
Film: Pollock, 2000. Directed by Ed Harris(122 minutes).
Directed by and starring Ed Harris as Jackson Pollock, Marcia Gay Harden as Lee Krasner, and Val Kilmer as Willem de Kooning.
Please note: the special exhibition Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 is open to Members and visitors who purchase Gallery admission.
.5–7pm
Art Activity for All Ages
6 pm
Pre-Film Talk: In the Wake of Tragedy
After multiple tragic deaths, artists are often called upon to create meaningful monuments to those who have been lost—examples will include the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Oklahoma City National Memorial, and memorials to the Holocaust. With Curator of Education Mariann Smith.
7 pm
Film: The Sweet Hereafter, 1997. Directed by Atom Egoyan (112 minutes).With Special Guest Editor Susan Shipton
Director Atom Egoyan received an Oscar nomination for Best Director and won the Genie Award for Best Canadian Film for The Sweet Hereafter, which addresses the aftermath of a tragic school bus accident in a small Canadian community. Special Guest Editor Susan Shipman will introduce the film and answer questions from the audience following the screening.
FREE for Members / $4 for non-members
4 pm
Scholars at muse Lecture Series
From the Avant-Garde to the Avatar: The Performing Body in the 20th Century
Sarah Bay-Cheng, Assistant Professor of Theatre and Dance/Media Studies at the University of Buffalo, continues our new, informal monthly series of lectures from cutting edge and emerging scholars.
Organized in collaboration with the University at Buffalo Humanities Institute and riverrun, Inc.,
5–7 pm
Art Activity: Static to Step
Use images from the Permanent Collection to make three-dimensional moving mobiles.
6 pm
Birthday Lecture: Joan Mitchell and Barnett Newman
Each month, Curator of Education Mariann Smith will feature two artists who are included in the special exhibition Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976, on view February 13 through June 14, 2009.
7:30 pm
Performance: Lehrer Dance
Buffalo’s inspiring and innovative contemporary dance company showcases Director Jon Lehrer’s unique choreography and definitive style, keeping audiences on the edge of their seats with their high-flying, athletic blend of modern and jazz dance. “Lehrer Dance took the house not so much by storm as by quantum physics. Jon Lehrer's strikingly original choreography transformed the stage into an energy field of super-charged particles,” Dance Magazine.