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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: Giacomo Balla
6 pm
Tasting: Olive Oil
Learn about how various Italian olive oils are made and paired. Samples include oils from Pelago-Florence, Bari (Puglia region), Castelvetrano (Western Sicily), and Modena, Italy.
7 pm
Lecture
University at Buffalo Associate Professor of Visual Studies Dr. Charles Carman discusses the art and culture of Italy and the Italian Renaissance.
Also this evening, muse will feature a special Italian-inspired menu.
5 – 7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages
7:30 pm
Performance: Buffalo Contemporary Dance
Buffalo Contemporary Dance celebrates its tenth anniversary with performances set to the music of Antonio Vivaldi, Aretha Franklin, Steve Reich, and Woody Guthrie. This all-female ensemble deals with such varied themes as the tolls of war, the different stages of womanhood, and a reminiscence of a Jewish village in Russia in the early 1900s in this program, suitable for adults and children alike.
5 – 7 pm
Art Activities for All Ages
Make your own lion and dragon finger puppets and try your hand at Chinese calligraphy!
7 pm
Chinese New Year Performances
It's almost the year 4706, and time to welcome the Year of the Ox! Celebrate with us as we scare away a mythical beast called the Nian, or "Year" in Chinese, and show thanks with a special lion dance performed by The Red Dragon martial arts school, demonstrations of Tai Chi sword forms, and traditional dances to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
8 pm
Tasting
5 – 7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages
Pop Art Prints
The Best of the Toronto Film Festival: Long Day’s Journey into Night
Admission is FREE for Gallery members; $4 for non-members
6 pm
Pre-film talk with Curator of Education Mariann Smith: Not for Victorian Drawing Rooms
The American Ash Can School, which included Robert Henri, George Bellows, and George Luks, paralleled in painting Eugene O’Neill’s new type of theatre—breaking away from Victorian expectations to develop a new style of expression based in realism.
7 pm
Aurora at the Albright-Knox presents The Best of the Toronto Film Festival: Long Day’s Journey into Night (David Wellington, 1996, 173 minutes)
Based on a play by Eugene O’Neilland starring Tom McCamus, Martha Henry, Peter Donaldson, Martha Burns, and William Hutt, Long Day’s Journey into Night, set in 1912, is the tragic story of a once-proud family’s disintegration. James Tyrone, once a Broadway actor, is now a miser and an alcoholic. His wife Mary struggles with a longtime morphine habit; his son Jamie, who tried to follow in his father’s footsteps but failed, is bitter and broke; and Edmund, a struggling poet who represents O’Neill himself, is seriously ill. A doctor’s confirmation that Edmund has tuberculosis and Mary’s relapse into her addiction trigger acrimony and recrimination, baring the bitterness and despair at the family’s heart. Introduction and after-film Q & A with Director David Wellington and Producer Daniel Iron.
4 pm
Scholars at muse Lecture Series: Realigning Alberti: Projection and Perspective
Organized in collaboration with University at Buffalo Humanities Institute and riverrun, Inc.
Anthony Conrad, Professor, Department of Media Study, continues our new, informal monthly series of lectures from cutting-edge and emerging scholars. Cash bar.
5 – 7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages
6 pm
Lecture: Happy Birthday, Jackson Pollock and Seymour Lipton!
With Curator of Education Mariann Smith.
7:15 pm
Symposium: Beyond/In Western New York 2010
In preparation for Beyond/In WNY 2010, the curatorial team leading the project has invited four art world professionals with Biennial experience to Buffalo to address the question “Why Biennials?” The symposium panelists will include Francesco Bonami, curator of the 50th Venice Biennial (2003); Anthony Bond, current Director of Curatorial Services at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, and curator for TRACE, the inaugural Liverpool Biennial in England (1999); Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, current Director of the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Venezuela and chief curator for the 6th Mercusol Biennial in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2007); and Charlotte Baggar Brandt, one of three curators for the U Turn Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen.
8 pm
Performance: Configuration Dance
Configuration Dance Theatre, Buffalo’s nationally recognized dance company, returns to the Albright-Knox to perform new cutting-edge works by Artistic Director Joseph Cipolla, Resident Choreographer Michael Shannon, and a special guest choreographer.