Press Releases
- February 15, 2012
Italian Jazz Legend Enrico Rava to Perform as Part of the 2011–2012 Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz Series
Trumpter Enrico Rava will make a rare North American appearance with his band Enrico Rava Tribe at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on Sunday, February 26, at 3 pm.
more- January 13, 2012
Grammy Nominee Gregory Porter to Perform as Part of the 2011–2012 Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz Series
Vocalist Gregory Porter will make his area debut as part of the 2011–2012 Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz Series at the Albright-Knox on Sunday, January 29, at 3 pm.
more- December 1, 2011
Holiday Tree Lighting to Take Place on December 2
Albright-Knox Art Gallery will hold its annual Holiday Tree lighting this Friday, December 2, in the Gallery’s Sculpture Court as part of the December installment of M&T FIRST FRIDAYS @ THE GALLERY.
more- September 22, 2011
Major Exhibition – The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery – Surveys One of America’s Foremost Collections, Opens November 4, 2011
The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery will feature eighty iconic works by more than seventy-five artists, highlighting the history of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s extraordinary Collection, and the benefactors and museum professionals who made it possible.
more- September 21, 2011
Virocode to Exhibit in the Albright-Knox’s Gallery for New Media: A Disappearance of the Source
The Western New York collaborative duo Virocode will open an exhibition of photographic and video installation work at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery on October 21, 2011. Since 1987, Virocode, has been exploring the intersection of science and popular culture through hybrid uses of video, photography, sculpture, and digital technology.
more- September 20, 2011
Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape Opens October 21
This comprehensive, ten-year survey of the work of Victoria Sambunaris (American, born 1964) marks the artist’s first solo exhibition at a major American museum. Sambunaris's hauntingly beautiful images reveal a sparse, seemingly limitless landscape and geology, dotted by a human imprint that is distinctly American.
more- September 19, 2011
Panel Discussion: Museums and Censorship – September 25 at 2 pm
The Albright Knox Art Gallery, in partnership with the Department of Visual Studies and the Humanities Institute at the University at Buffalo, will present a conversation on the controversy surrounding the recent Smithsonian exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture—the first major museum queer exhibition in US history—and the Smithsonian’s decision to remove David Wojnarowicz’s film Fire in My Belly from the exhibition.
more- August 31, 2011
2011–2012 Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz Series Tickets on Sale Now!
Tickets are now on sale for the 2011–2012 season of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s popular Hunt Real Estate Art of Jazz Series. The lineup includes the tenor saxophone legend Houston Person, the Grammy-nominated vocalist Gregory Porter, the Italian jazz icon Enrico Rava, and the New Orleans cultural standard-bearer Donald Harrison.
more- July 19, 2011
SANGHA: An Installation by Kathryn Walker Opens July 22
A stunning new installation by the artist Kathryn Walker will open in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery’s Gallery for Small Sculpture. SANGHA is composed of more than one thousand miniature terracotta pots, each carefully painted and collaged by the artist.
more- June 29, 2011
Monumental New Sculpture to be named at Albright-Knox; Landmark Exhibition to open
A massive event at the Gallery on Thursday, June 30, 2011, at 9:30 pm, will include the official naming and lighting of the new installation by the artist Nancy Rubins and the opening of Videosphere: A New Generation, the largest exhibition of works in new media ever organized from a single art collection.
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