What's happening
LET'S DO LUNCH:
Road Less Traveled Theater will present A Light Lunch by renowned playwright A.R. Gurney January 29th-February 21st. Fresh from its New York City premiere, this is a wicked comedy of art, commerce and politics from one of Buffalo's favorite sons. The story of a recently dethroned, highly controversial U.S. President and and his post-actions after he's been escorted from the Oval Office, A Light Lunch is the first installment of RLTP's three-year A.R. Gurney retrospective. You may think you know Gurney, but you've never seen Gurney like this! More...
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feature attraction
WRIGHT HERE, WRIGHT NOW:
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Darwin Martin House Complex truly came into its own as a tourist destination with the opening of architect Toshiko Mori’s brilliant Greatbatch Pavilion. This 8,000 square foot interpretive center provides visitors to Wright’s Prairie Style masterpiece with museum quality exhibits, interactive touch screens, and a state-of-the-art orientation film that artfully and eloquently tell the story of Buffalo businessman Darwin D. Martin and the young man from Chicago who would go on to become the greatest architect of the 20th Century. For more information on tours, click here. More…
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COMING SOON
BURCHFIELD AMONG THE BEST:
The New Yorker magazine has named “Heat Waves in a Swamp: the Paintings of Charles Burchfield” as one of the best art exhibitions of 2009. The exhibit, organized by artist Robert Gober, is coming to Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center from March 6th through May 23rd after a much acclaimed run at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This is the first major retrospective of Burchfield’s work to be mounted in twenty years. After its appearance in Buffalo, the exhibition travels to the Whitney Museum in New York City in the summer of 2010. More…
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IN THE NEWS
DISHING ABOUT GARDEN WALK:
The Daily Dish on Atlantic.com sings the praises of Garden Walk Buffalo: “In recent years, too, Buffalo has become a site of the triumph of imagination over physical reality in two ways that have caught my heart. The first is the inkpool spread of neighborhoods that have gone mad with gardening. Really. Gardening, like happiness and obesity, is contagious, and urban pioneers on the West Side have inspired neighbors to garden and so attracted new urban pioneers. Call it clear, grow and build. The movement has been driven in large part by the mind-blowing Buffalo Garden Walk, America's best event of its kind, held the last weekend in July." More...
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Distinctive Destination
FORGOTTEN BUFFALO WITH TIMMY AND JIMMY :
Travel in the footsteps of two of South Buffalo’s most famous native sons, former NBC “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert and former Mayor Jimmy Griffin who both died in 2008. This unique tour of Irish Buffalo begins in the historic First Ward, then it’s on to the “Valley” and South Buffalo to visit some of the most colorful Irish pubs in Western New York. This all takes place Friday, March 5th at 5:30pm. Reservations suggested. More...
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BUFFALO SPOTLIGHT
ENTER THE VAULT:
The VAuLT present a new exhibit featuring great Western New York artists including Francisco Amaya, Andrea Brough, Jaclyn Baldassara, Brian Cleggett, Amanda Giczkowski, Marilyn Hammer, Sean Madden, Brittney Murphy, Kenn Morgan, Evinn Neadow, Cara Schnelle, Greg Sobczak, Bob Stelianou, Ginny Stewart and many more. All work inside the gallery will be black and white. More… |
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WALKS, TALKS & TOURS
EXPLORE BUFFALO
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Discover Buffalo with Exploritas! Alongside local experts you’ll experience in-depth and behind-the-scenes learning opportunities with these cultural tours of Buffalo. They include:
The History of the Arts & Crafts Movement
May 23-28, 2010
September 12-17, 2010
The Queen City: Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan and a Wealth of Art
June 6-14, 2010
September 7-10, 2010
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Buffalo
October 18-22, 2010
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