Special Event
Members' Reception for The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery
Thursday, November 17, 2011, 5–7 pm
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Gallery Members are invited to join us for a reception celebrating the special exhibition The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
Sculpture Court
Remarks and Tours, 6 pm
Enjoy a prix-fixe dinner after the Members’ Reception in AK café. By reservation only, beginning at 6 pm. Please call 716.270.8223.
This reception is made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Goldwater Family Foundation.
The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is presented by First Niagara.
Additional support has been provided by Agnes Gund.
Event Recap
On Thursday, November 17, the Gallery hosted a Members’ Reception for the special exhibition The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The evening included tours by Chief Curator Douglas Dreishpoon, who organized the exhibition; Head of Research Resources Susana Tejada, who organized the section of the exhibition about the Gallery's Room of Contemporary Art; Curator of Education Mariann Smith; and Curatorial Assistant Ilana Chlebowski.
The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is on view at the Albright-Knox through Sunday, March 4, 2012. The exhibition catalogue—with essays by Dreishpoon and Tejada, texts on each of the works by Smith, and a timeline of the Gallery's 150-year history by Curator for the Collection Holly E. Hughes—is available in shop AK, and a companion website is available at www.albrightknox.org/collection/search/thelongcurve.
View photos from the Members’ Reception, below.
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