Press Releases
- September 20, 2010
Opportunity to Meet Artist Didier Pasquette before His High-wire Walk atop Buffalo’s Liberty Building
On September 23, 2010, renowned artist Didier Pasquette will walk a high-wire suspended between the statues of liberty atop the twenty-three-story Liberty Building in downtown Buffalo. The walk will herald the opening of Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents.
more- September 10, 2010
2010-2011 Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz Series Tickets on Sale Now
The 2010-2011 Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz Series lineup will include the first area performance of jazz great Charles Lloyd in more than four decades, the Django Reinhardt–inspired Hot Club of Detroit, pianist and composer Robert Glasper, and Niagara Falls native Pete Malinverni.
more- June 17, 2010
Contemporary Visual Culture Is Examined and Explored in New Exhibition to Open June 25
The new exhibition ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture will open at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Friday, June 25, 2010. Drawn entirely from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection, the exhibition features work by artists who borrow imagery from advertising, media, daily life, and even other artists.
moreAlbright-Knox to Exhibit Clyfford Still’s Abstract Masterpieces This Summer
This summer, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will open an exhibition of its paintings by Clyfford Still—one of the world’s largest public collections of the Abstract Expressionist master’s work—organized by Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon.
more- May 13, 2010
Reality on a Whim—Area Teens to Open Exhibition at the Albright-Knox May 21
An exhibition of artwork created by area teens has been organized by fourteen of their peers through the Future Curators program at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
moreArt Alive: A Walking, Talking Art Contestto be Held at the Gallery on Saturday, June 5, 2010
Join the excitement as Western New Yorkers bring famous works of art to life at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s fourteenth annual Art Alive: A Walking, Talking Art Contest, scheduled for Saturday, June 5, from noon to 2 pm.
more- April 23, 2010
Tickets for Rockin’ at the Knox on Sale This Monday
This year, an eclectic lineup headed by Rufus Wainwright and The National, who will be joined by Atlas Sound and Martha Wainwright, will perform on Friday, June 18, 2010.
more- February 10, 2010
Major Art History Event in Buffalo, NY—Landmark Exhibition of Works by Canada’s Avant-Garde Opens in Buffalo March 19
The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941–1960 is one of the most extensive exhibitions to date of the Automatiste Group, whose work created what is recognized today as the most interdisciplinary and possibly the most important art movement in Canada.
more- January 20, 2010
Major Exhibition Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980–2008 to Premiere in Western New York
On February 19, 2010, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will present a major exhibition that will trace the evolution of the work of Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca through more than fifty paintings and twenty-five works on paper that span twenty-eight years of the artist’s career.
more- January 4, 2010
Mostly Other People Do The Killing Featured at the Art Of Jazz Series at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Mostly Other People Do The Killing will perform as part of the 2009–2010 Hunt Real Estate and David Kennedy Art of Jazz Series at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Sunday, January 31, 2010, at 3 pm in the Gallery Auditorium.
moreAlbright-Knox Art Gallery Will Exhibit Fifty Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery continues to be recognized as a place to leave art for care and conservation for future generations. In January, audiences will have the opportunity to view the latest gift in an exhibition entitled Fifty Works for Fifty States: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection.
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