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Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Area Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Durand, Marcella Area Got this in the mail fairly recently from the fabulous Erika Kaufman, publisher of Belladonna Books. Sadly, I haven't read it yet. I've met Marcella a couple of times. She really helped me out a few years back when I wanted to bring John Ashbery to Buffalo. She worked as his assistant and so helped me contact him and put together a...
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Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
Inka Essenhigh (born Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, 1969) is a painter based in New York. Essenhigh studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio (1991) and the School of Visual Arts in New York (1993). Inka Essenhigh's paintings redefine pop as the epitome of aesthetic hierarchy. Her ultra-slick surfaces operate as virtual fields, where estranged narratives play out in cross-wired systems of...
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ArtsBeat (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
It's a big week for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, which today announced the appointment of Leslie Zemsky as the first female board president in the institution's history. To the surprise and relief of many an art-lover, the gallery also announced today that it would extend its hours to be open six days a week as opposed to a paltry four, starting Nov. 3. The gallery also opened its exhibition of recent...
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BuffaloPundit (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
The reconfigured outer harbor roadway network is nearing completion. Anyone who tried to get off of Route 5 and onto Fuhrmann in the past knows that it was a ridiculous maze of roadways, and very difficult to get from any given point A to any random point B. The reconstruction that has been [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/12/2009
Mr. Murdock was an art historian and curator of 20th-century and contemporary art who organized some notable exhibitions.
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ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
"The Albright Knox Art Gallery is scaling back again to help get through the economic crisis. It is now official. The Collectors Gallery, featuring local artists, will close permanently at the end of October."...
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Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Esteban Vicente (1904 - 2001), one of the first generation of the New York abstract expressionists, was born in Turégano, Spain on January 20, 1904. After early schooling with the Jesuits he enrolled at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes in Madrid in 1921. He had his first one-man exhibition in Madrid in 1928, after which he left for Paris and did not return to Spain until 1930. In 1935 he married...
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Pearlblossom Highway (Free subscription) | 09/27/2009
Gunslinger Originally uploaded by Michael_Kelleher Dorn, Edward Gunslinger Another title from the Just Buffalo library. I remember watching Bruce Jackson's film about Creeley a few years ago at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. There's a kind of amazing scene featuring Creeley, Dorn and Dorn's wife Jenny. The three are sitting at a kitchen table. My recollection is that it is morning, but I also recall...
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Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 09/23/2009
Chuck Thomas Close (born July 5, 1940, Monroe, Washington) is an American painter and photographer who achieved fame as a photorealist, through his massive-scale portraits. Though a catastrophic spinal artery collapse in 1988 left him severely paralyzed, he has continued to paint and produce work which remains sought after by museums and collectors. On December 7, 1988, Close felt a strange pain in...
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Gandalf's Gallery (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
Cecily Brown, born 1969 in London, is a British painter. She has a great respect for art history and her works reveal her reverence and high regard for artists such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell while incorporating into her works her distinct female view point. She has become known for her painting style suggestive of abstract and abstract expressionist...
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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/02/2009
MIAMI, FL.- In October of 2009, Miami Art Museum will premiere the most comprehensive survey of the work of Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca ever presented in North America. On view at MAM from October 9, 2009 through January 17, 2010, Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1980-2008 will trace the evolution of Kuitca's work through more than 50 canvases and 25 works on paper,...
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Lampwork Diva aka Cindy Gimbrone (Free subscription) | 08/27/2009
Today's picture is of an original neon in the collection at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery - I feel like today's post has no real content. But then some of the best things are about nothing (like Seinfeld ).... I want to know where the summer went? I was supposed to do alot more than what I've done! I guess many of us feel that way, huh? Despite that, I've got to get some work done today. I've made...
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ArtsBeat (Free subscription) | 08/09/2009
Above, listen to artist Nir Hod talk about his piece "The Night You Left," his contribution to the "Wall Rockets" exhibition at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. --Colin Dabkowski
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A Daily Dose of Architecture (Free subscription) | 07/23/2009
Buffalo, New York is home to a few Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, most notably his Darwin D. Martin House . This complex is now home to a recent Visitor's Center by Toshiko Mori , a glass pavilion that "will serve as an orientation point for those arriving to the campus and will include flexible exhibition space, permanent galleries and visitor amenities." [Eleanor and Wilson Greatbatch Pavilion...
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domeheid (Free subscription) | 07/15/2009
Short film based on the short story by Irish writer Colum McCann, another one of those token Irish writers which many United Statian universities feel they must have on their faculties. A brilliantly controlled piece of filmmaking about the occupation of British soldiers in the North of Ireland during the Troubles and their uneasy relationship with the locals. To say any more would spoil it. Nugget:...
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