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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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General Mills Foundation, the Robert J. and Martha B. Fierle 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. |
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5–7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages
6:15 pm and 7:15 pm
Family Tours: Write Me a Picture
As part of the Buffalo Book Fair
Learn about the stories told by works of art and complete a writing exercise making connections between visual and language literacy.
Please note: This tour is free but space is limited. Please register by calling 716.270.8254 or sending a message to ajablonski@albrightknox.org.
6:30 - 7:30 pm
Outdoor Sculpture Scavenger Hunt
Explore our outdoor sculptures with this family fun scavenger hunt!
7 pm
Curator’s Tour: Bad Habits
Join Curator Heather Pesanti for her debut exhibition Bad Habits, a look at the more subversive and iniquitous works from our Permanent Collection, opening tonight.
8 pm
Film: Dark Habits (1983, 114 minutes)
A cabaret singer seeks refuge in a convent with nuns who have a questionable lifestyle.
Written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Please note: This film is rated R for violence, pervasive language, and drug use.
5–7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages
6 pm
Lecture: The Lady in the Pink Dress and Other Women of Paris: James Tissot and
La Parisienne
With Curator of Education Mariann Smith.
7 and 7:30 pm
Guided Tour: French Masters of the Permanent Collection
8 pm
Film: Charade (1963, Directed by Stanley Donen, 113 minutes)
Regina Lambert (Audrey Hepburn) returns to Paris from a ski trip in Switzerland to find that her husband has been murdered. The CIA later informs her that her late husband was a suspect in an investigation for $250,000 in gold stolen from the U.S. government during World War II. Now, the government wants it back and it is only with the help of her new friend Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) that Regina has a chance of finding the money. Thus begins an elaborate “charade” in which nothing is what it seems to be.
Also this evening, muse will feature a special French-inspired prix fixe menu.
Special Exhibition: Fourth Annual Albright-Knox Staff Exhibition
On view July 8–August 2, 2009
5–7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages
Sculpture with found objects
7 pm
Documentary
Excerpts from “Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century”
Art:21, now in its fifth season, is a series of short documentaries about a diverse group of established and emerging artists working in America today and the art they are currently producing. This evening’s program features excerpts on the artists Janine Antoni, Matthew Barney, and Louise Bourgeois, whose work is included in the special exhibition Bad Habits, and Roni Horn and Mark Bradford, whose work is included in the special exhibition WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha.
* Please note that there is a venue change for The Art of Tango! Milonga and performances by Ana Padron and Diego Blanco will happen at The Alt Theatre (255 Great Arrow Avenue, 3rd Floor).
5-7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages: The Alphabet
6 pm
Lecture: Eccentric Artists Through the Ages
With Curator of Education Mariann Smith.
6:30 pm
Infringement Poets
7 pm
A Conversation with Fletcher Benton
Join artist Fletcher Benton for a special talk celebrating the opening of his exhibition
Fletcher Benton: The Alphabet.
8 pm
Performance: Infringement Festival
American tribal style bellydance with Euphraxa, Middle Eastern style bellydance with Nadia Ibrahim, and Erin Bahn. Now in its fifth year, the Buffalo Infringement Festival is an uncurated, eleven-day showcase of theater performances, performance artists, dancers, musicians, media-makers, and visual artists from throughout Western New York, Canada, and the rest of the world. Highlighting work that is eclectic, independent, experimental, and often politically charged, the festival unfolds from July 23 through August 2 in venues all over town, but this special event offers you a change to experience a broad sample of “art under the radar” under one roof.