Life is strange and inexplicable. Right in time for me to catch the Pedro Meyer retrospective at the George Eastman House, a close friend and I were discussing the mystery of personality and why individuals value the things they value. Why are...
I'm all about the blending of artistic media, and the people who run Potential Life Studios know that visual art and music are a great mix. This tiny, seriously hip gallery and music venue is co-owned by husband and wife team Jeremy and Colleen...
ART REVIEW: "Members: Rochester Contemporary Members Show"
Maybe it's the weather, but I focused on a whole lot of death- or darkly-themed art at Rochester Contemporary's 18th Annual Members Exhibition. I adore the skillful celebration of beauty, but I'm also strongly drawn to dark, delicate art that...
ART REVIEW: "Individual Story"
What if we could see each individual's personal history, the struggles, the anxieties, the complexities, unraveling onion-like before us? Korean-American printmaker Chunwoo Nam's art seeks to fill in the gaps of what is unknown about the Other,...
REVIEW: Method Lab's "Bushwacked"
Forget haunted hayrides. The scariest experience of my Halloween this year was The Method Lab's "Bushwacked," a group exhibit of art that together forms a retrospective of the horrific past eight years.
ART REVIEW: "Audition," by Sam van Aken
If you're down in the East End this month, you might see some young men staring lustily through the front window of Rochester Contemporary Art Center at the giant sphere of car stereo speakers. In my view, art generally falls into two groups: art...
Multi-reed master Ken Peplowski left college early to join The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra on...
There are many reasons why people meet annually - family and class reunions, conventions,...
Contrasting with a number of recent pictures dealing with Germany during World War II,...
As a kid, if given the choice between a history lesson and eating 10 plates of Brussels sprouts,...
OUR MONSTER ISSUE! The results are in! This year THOUSANDS of Rochesterians voted in our annual...
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Eric said:
Dear Mary Rose: I believe prints are for sale at the Memorial Art Gallery's gift shop.
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Mary Rose Bovard said:
Is it at all possible to buy a print of Midtown painting by Edith Lunt Small? Thank You.
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Judy Lehman said:
Bethany, Your art work is amazing; I am very proud of you.
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Carol Barton said:
Hi Shirley, Sounds like an amazing exhibit, especially since it includes some of the best paper engineers in the business. I thought, after...
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G. Peter Jemison said:
It is great to see a serious review of art in City and it does make me curious about the drawings and sculpture described. On another level I am...
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