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Archive About the AK We’ve moved! Thank you for visiting the ’s Tumblr blog. We launched a new website in November 2016 and incorporated our blog into the structure of the new site. Please visit the NEW blog at www.albrightknox.org , where you’ll find the same insights into our collection, history, and artists, as well as information about Buffalo’s remarkable history and architecture, that we have presented here. Thank you. AlbrightKnox Museum Buffalo New Blog Website Blog Art Museum Art Blog 7 notes Nov 9th, 2016 Open in app Facebook Tweet Mail Permalink #CaughtOnCamera Spotlight on the Collection—Artists in Depth: Picasso, Braque, Léger, Delaunay January 28—June 5, 2011 Spotlight on the Collection—Artists in Depth: Picasso, Braque, Léger, Delaunay, presented by The Buffalo News , was the first in a new series of ongoing exhibitions drawn from the Albright-Knox’s collection focusing on important artists whose works the museum has acquired in depth. The series reached beyond the museum’s well-known masterworks to highlight a broad range of paintings, sculptures, and works on paper from selected artists’ careers. Many of the works are less known to Albright-Knox audiences, not having been exhibited in some time, but, seen together, they brought context and greater understanding to the chosen artists’ practices and their art-historical legacies. With this exhibition, the museum returned to its modernist roots with a complete display of all works in the collection—more than seventy-five objects—by four masters: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973), Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963), Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955), and Sonia Delaunay (French, born Russia, 1885–1979). All were early-twentieth-century pioneers of abstraction—Picasso and Braque joined forces as the founders of Cubism, Delaunay’s bright colors and geometric forms presaged geometric abstraction, and Léger’s cylindrical forms interpreted the mechanical age and predated Pop art. Picasso: The Artist and His Models , opening November 5, 2016, is the next major exhibition at the Albright-Knox to feature Picasso and his contemporaries. Tickets are on sale now at albrightknox.org/picasso . Content and images courtesy of the Digital Assets Collection and Archives, Buffalo, New York. Photographs by Tom Loonan. © 2016 AlbrightKnox Albright-Knox Picasso Delaunay Léger Braque modern art contemporary art buffalo museum art artist exhibition PicassoatAK Pablo Picasso 19 notes Nov 3rd, 2016 Open in app Facebook Tweet Mail Permalink Historypin of the Week Isamu Noguchi’s The Cry , 1962 Isamu Noguchi’s The Cry was originally sculpted from balsa wood and was cast in bronze several years later. It was featured in a 1965 exhibition entitled The White House Festival of the Arts on display for only one day, and then brought to The National Gallery in Washington, D.C. Isamu Noguchi (American, 1904–1988). The Cry , 1962. Bronze, 81 x 27 x 20 inches (205.7 x 68.6 x 50.8 cm); base: 8 ½ x 23 x 19 inches (21.6 x 58.4 x 48.3 cm). Collection ; George Cary and Elisabeth H. Gates Funds, 1963 (1963:2). © 2012 Estate of Isamu Noguchi / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photograph by Tom Loonan. Historypin Isamu Noguchi Sculpture Art Museum Buffalo The Cry The National Gallery AlbrightKnox Albright-Knox 11 notes Nov 2nd, 2016 Open in app Facebook Tweet Mail Permalink #CaughtOnCamera Opening Concert of the Ninth Season of the Creative Associates, SUNYAB October 28, 1972 On October 28, 1972, the Albright-Knox hosted the opening concert in the ninth season of the Creative Associates group from SUNYAB (State University of New York at Buffalo). The concert program was planned by Lukas Foss and Lejaren Hiller and took place at three locations in the museum: the Auditorium, a corridor in the 1962 Building, and the Sculpture Court in the 1905 Building. The performers and pieces performed are listed below. Part I, Auditorium: Vintage Alice ( 1972) by David del Tredici (Buffalo premier) Intermission, Corridor: Tape Piece No. 2 ( 1972) by Ralph Blauvelt and Egerya (1972) by Peter Gena Part II, Sculpture Court: Pianos and Voices (1972) by Morton Feldman (American premier) Content and images courtesy of the Digital Assets Collection and Archives, Buffalo, New York. © 2016 AlbrightKnox Performance Albright-Knox SUNYAB Music Classical Music New Music Buffalo History Museum Art Oct 27th, 2016 Open in app Facebook Tweet Mail Permalink albrightknox albrightknox : AK Historypin of the Week Buffalo State Hospital, Forest Avenue between Grant Street and Elmwood Avenue The Albright Art Gallery (now the ) held an exhibition of photography in January 1940, which commemorated Buffalo’s vast architectural triumphs. Participants using the Historypin website and mobile app on supported devices can explore photographs and related content about numerous historic sites and buildings featured in the AAG’s 1940 exhibition. Every week, we feature a pinned location from the Albright-Knox’s Historypin channel and provide detailed information and archival photographs about the site. This week’s pin is the Buffalo State Hospital/Richardson Olmsted Complex , located on Forest Avenue between Elmwood Avenue and Grant Street . *** The Buffalo State Hospital has been known by several names throughout its history, including the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, the Buffalo Psychiatric Center, and more recently the Richardson Olmsted Complex. Construction originally began on the building in 1871 and was completed in 1895. It was designed by architect H. H. (Henry Hobson) Richardson (1838–1886). The eleven-building complex, which was the largest commission of Richardson’s career, was an example of his personal revival of the Romanesque architectural style. The complex, following the design of the Kirkbride plan, consisted of a central administrative tower and five pavilions, or wards, connected by two-story corridors. The two-hundred-acre grounds surrounding the complex were designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), with his partner Calvert Vaux (1824–1895). The wards housed mentally ill patients until the mid-1970s. The central administration building was used for offices until 1994. Three pavilions on the east side were demolished in the 1970s to make way for newer psychiatric facilities and the grounds north of the building have been occupied by Buffalo State College since the 1960s. The complex has been the subject of a long-term conservation campaign over the last few decades. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places and became a National Historic Landmark in 1986. In 2006, the Richard Center Corporation was formed with a mission to save the historic buildings and recently shared plans to transform the complex into a vibrant destination including a hotel, conference, and event center in the three main buildings. *** TOP: Images courtesy of the Digital Assets Collection and Archives, Buffalo, New York. © 2014 . Photographs by Jay W. Baxtresser. BOTTOM: Screenshot of the ’s channel on Historypin . Happy Halloween! To celebrate Buffalo’s amazing (and somewhat spooky) architectural heritage, look back at a previous Historypin post about the Richardson Olmsted Complex, soon to become Hotel Henry. It’s one of our favorite buildings in Buffalo, and we are lucky to be close neighbors! albrightknox 22 notes Oct 26th, 2016 Open in app Facebook Tweet Mail Permalink Celebrating her unique spirit and unsparing vision, Who Does She Think She Is? presents Rosalyn Drexler as both a sharp critic of and a joyful participant in American culture of the past fifty years. Born in 1926 to a Russian immigrant family in the Bronx, she grew up during the Depression raised on vaudeville and the movies, with little access to art. Her parents hoped she would make it in Hollywood. Instead, she married painter Sherman Drexler at the age of nineteen and spent the next decade as a mother and housewife seeking outlets for her own creativity,...