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A makeshift tea house created from 2,500 tea bags will be the main attraction Friday during the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s monthly free Second Fridays event.

Western New York’s only news organization dedicated exclusively to watchdog journalism is hosting 15 events through next June. The series, entitled “At Issue,” is geared towards providing the public with thought-provoking events focused on important issues.

An arch formed by trees that becomes more like a gothic stained glass window than a scene from nature. Bird escaping an ominous forest overlaid with ... is that sound?

The exciting news this week: I finished writing or revising profiles of all 25 or so artists associated with the Barge. Hooray! 

Co-organized by the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, the exhibition features works borrowed from museums and private collections across the United States, including the Burchfield Penney Art Center, the largest repository of the artist's work.

Last Thursday evening I scheduled a special voyage on Displacement: Barge Prototype, Phase I of the Cultural Commodities project. 

There was a moment when I was looking at the new Charles Burchfield show at the Brandywine River Museum of Art that I stepped back from the individual paintings to look at the show as a whole. Suddenly, the gallery seemed alive and pulsating, with waves of energy surging from painting to painting.

If you thought you knew the Buffalo/Niagara Falls area, well think again. New York state’s second largest metropolitan area has been undergoing somewhat of a renaissance that’s given it a new urban vibe in both its downtown core and throughout its system of outdoor parks and growing-in-stature art galleries.

This Week in ALP refuses to believe that summer is over just because Labor Day is here and the students have returned like swallows to Capistrano. 

For Brandywine Museum of Art Director Tom Padon, there’s a strong similarity between the work of Andrew Wyeth and that of Charles E. Burchfield.