A Gather of Glass, Review
A Fascinating Overview of Glassworks from the Area
The Albany Institute of History and Art is always a place of variety and wonder, housing a multitude of significant artifacts from ancient times to very recent history. Toys from our childhoods, mummies, presidential displays, plus a gift shop—all packed into a relatively small [...]
Ben Rubin: A Shakespeare Accelerator: Experiments in Kinetic Language at EMPAC, Preview
A Modern Interpretation of the Bard’s Work
William Shakespeare’s plays have been perpetually performed for four hundred years; there have been so many film and TV versions (420+) that they’ve formed their own sub-genre, and the Bard’s works continue to be a part of [...]
Jerome Liebling Exhibit at the Smith College Museum of Art, Review
An Exhibit of the Renowned Photographer’s Work in Northampton
As you approach the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA) in Northampton, Massachusetts, there are large, color banners catching the wind. These banners are for the larger of the current exhibits, specifically for Cross Currents: Art of [...]
Review of Kiki Smith’s “I Myself Have Seen It” at the Tang Museum
Photographic Representations by Kiki Smith
Over the past three decades Kiki Smith has made a name for herself, making art in all forms, but she is best known for her sculptures and printmaking. She has been classified as a feminist artist, but her [...]
Break the Chains: 4th Annual Domestic Violence Awareness Project Exhibit at bjsartworks
Break the Chains Exhibit at bjsartworks Brings Attention to Domestic Violence
Most people have heard that October is national Breast Cancer Awareness Month. But it is also Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
Starting October 1st and running until the 31st, bjsartworks in Glens Falls will host the [...]
smAlbany Exhibit at the UAG Gallery, Review
Upstate Artists Guild: Artwork Inspired by Albany
The term “smAlbany” is frequently evoked by residents of New York’s Capital City to explain the phenomena of running into friends in unexpected places or learning that the stranger you meet happens to know everyone you know. The smAlbany exhibit, [...]
Pulp Fiction Paintings, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Review
Pulp Fiction & Art
Picture a time and place where fear is simple: the enemy is an outsider with ugly distinguishing features, while you are a handsome, muscular male hero or a beautiful feminine victim. The wild and unknown is dangerous—space, the jungle, the frontier. Such is the subject [...]
William DeMichele’s Marks of Identity Exhibit, Review, Photo Center of the Capital Region, Troy
Through August 21, 2011, selected works of world-renowned local photographer, William DeMichele, are on display at the Photo Center of the Capital Region in Troy. Many of the photographs in the Marks of Identity exhibit have previously only been displayed in [...]
Review of The Fence Select Show 2011 at the Arts Center of the Capital Region
Currently on display at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in downtown Troy is The Fence Select Show, an annual juried art show that features a vibrant and unique selection of local artwork.
According to the Arts Center, the event was [...]
New York, New York! Exhibit, Hyde Collection, Review
New York. Love it or hate it, there is nothing quite like it. From the dirty water hot dogs to the skyscrapers, from Indian row, Chinatown, 5Pointz and Harlem, from the subway series to the 1977 blackout, from rush hour traffic to the bustling crowds that populate [...]
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