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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
Education Classrooms
6 pm
Family Tour and Activity: Step on a Crack . . .
Associate Curator of Education Nancy Spector leads a tour celebrating the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s first artist-in-residence, Ingrid Calame, and her exhibition Step on a Crack . . . . A special art activity will follow.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. To register, please email ajablonski@albrightknox.org or call 716.270.8254.
7 pm
Film Screening: Art:21 — Art in the Twenty–First Century Season Five
Premiere (Episodes 1 and 2)
Auditorium
“Fourteen artists reveal their ideas and perspectives on world events in the only series dedicated exclusively to contemporary art.” Join us for this unique screening—part of a nationwide celebration of the season five premiere during the month of October.
Episode 1: Compassion features “artists whose works explore the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.” It includes William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems.
Episode 2: Fantasy presents “artists whose works or personal stories transport viewers to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works that seem at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime.” It features Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen, and Cao Fei.
4:30–6:30 pm
Traveling Museum
Education Corridor
Visual artist Helga MacKinnon allows young people and their families to explore objects from the Erie Canal’s most productive time.
4:30–6:30 pm
Art Activity for All Ages
Education Classroom 1
Create collaged postcards exploring the Erie Canal with visual artist Gerald Mead.
4:30–6:30 pm
Workshop
Education Classroom 2
Poet, singer, and songwriter Melissa Kate works with young people and their families in Journeys and Journals to explore creative writing in superlatives, tall tales, and letters about life on the Erie Canal.
6:30 pm
Interactive Performance
Auditorium
This interactive performance features Surly Sal, a cook who works on the Erie Canal. She is played by actress Gretchen Murray Sepik.
7:30 pm
Performance
Auditorium
Award-winning musicians The Stringmen (Doug Yeomans and Geoffrey Perry) perform music from the Erie Canal era.
5–7 pm
Art Activity
Join us for kids’ mask and mandala making
5–7 pm
Archetypal Treasure Hunt
Join us for a treasure hunt featuring work from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s permanent collection.
6 pm
Performance
Playback Theatre acts out paintings inspired by dreams from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s permanent collection.
7 pm
Documentary: Wisdom of the Dream: Volume 1 – A Life of Dreams
This 1989 documentary is an introduction to C. G. Jung. It was directed by Stephen Segaller and is part of a film series produced by PBS.
8 pm
Performance: Bush Mango Drum and Dance
Archetypally-inspired, West African dance and drumming from the Bush Mango Community Center in Rochester, New York.
5–7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages: The Floating Line
Education Classrooms
5 and 5:30 pm
Architectural Walking Tours
Join us for a guided walking tour of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s exterior. Tours will meet at the Membership Desk.
6 pm
Commission In Context: A Conversation with Robert Mangold and Douglas Dreishpoon
Auditorium
American Minimalist painter Robert Mangold returns to his native Western New York for the opening of ROBERT MANGOLD Beyond the Line: Paintings and Project 2000 – 2008. This exhibition grew out of Mangold’s invitation by the United States General Services Administration (GSA) to design the glass windows for the entry pavilion of the United States Courthouse in downtown Buffalo, set to be completed in 2010.
The conversation will expound upon the concise survey of Mangold’s works organized by Albright-Knox Art Gallery Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon—putting Mangold’s Curled Figures, Column, and Column Structure paintings in context with the GSA Commission.
A question and answer session will follow. Signed exhibition catalogues will be available for purchase in the Gallery Shop.
6 pm
Shooting Stars and Wall Rockets
Some works of art do everything but shout at you! Come for a half-hour interactive tour of our special exhibition Wall Rockets with Associate Curator of Education Nancy Spector, followed by a hands-on art activity in the classrooms. The tour will meet at the Membership Desk.
Space is limited and pre-registration is required. To register, please email ajablonski@albrightknox.org or call 716.270.8254.
6–9 pm
After Hours at muse
Join us in the Gallery’s restaurant, muse, where After Hours will perform Nouveau Lounge renditions of songs from musical visionaries such as Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Wanda Jackson, and Blondie. From cabaret to classic country, After Hours revives seldom-heard hits from the thirties to the nineties for the discerning music lover.
4 pm
Scholars at muse Series: The (Victorian) Truth of Torture
Painful Persuasions: Belief and the Body in Victorian Literature and Culture
muse
University at Buffalo Associate Professor of English Rachel Ablow continues our informal monthly series of lectures from cutting edge and emerging scholars. Organized in collaboration with the UB Humanities Institute and Riverrun. A cash bar will be available.
5–7 pm
Art Activity for All Ages: Mask Making
Education Classrooms
6 pm
Lecture: Witches, Monsters, Ghosts, and Demons
Auditorium
Curator of Education Mariann Smith explores scary imagery in art. Eek!
7:30 pm
Performance: Halloween Spooktacular with the Greater Buffalo Youth Ballet
Auditorium
The Greater Buffalo Youth Ballet comes to the Albright-Knox Art Gallery for a unique, Halloween-inspired performance. Please join us for Halloween fun and see witches, bats, cats, and more dancing to the enchanting music of Saint-Saëns, Chadwick, and Mussorgsky. Children (and adults!) are welcome to dress up in their favorite costumes and learn fun Halloween dances.