Lots and lots of artists this week, mostly short entries as I attempt to catch up on some Front Yard folks.
An industrial center at the terminus of the Erie Canal, Buffalo was never a tourist destination. But it is now growing into one. Proud locals are more than happy to show and tell you about the most surprising, engrossing and delicious aspects of their city...
The Burchfield Penney Art Center will celebrate the 75th birthday of legendary percussionist Jan Williams, one of the most important figures in contemporary music and a former chair of the UB Department of Music, with a special tribute concert.
Review: Burchfield exhibition showcases nature, both real and imagined in The Chautauquan Daily at Review by John Goodrich
As a Buffalo native, the love I have for my city only intensifies when I learn of its powerfully radiant past.
Though he was the first artist chosen for a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC in 1930, most people have never heard of Charles Burchfield. But a visit to this 2008 LEED-Certified museum, moved from Buffalo State College across the street, will change all that.
Read Colin Dabkowski's preview at www.BuffaloNews.com.
The exhibition features programs organized by 16 college- and university-based art museums, including the Burchfield Penney Art Center at SUNY Buffalo State, which underscore the breadth and range of art museum education today.
It’s a colorful program, called “Echoes of the Present” because all the arrangers are living. The music covers a lot of ground.
I think I am forgetting something I wrote early in the week, but I know that I helped Dietrich (or Olivier or Ulysses or whatever he calls himself) work on his bio for the barge project and then realized I should post it in the database, too.