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Humanity's needs (and, more troubling, its wants) bring profound changes to the planet's landscape, a story that can be understood just by looking. This summer, the George Eastman House focuses on our awkward relationship with land with two separate exhibitions, "New Topographics" and "Nature as Artifice: New Dutch Landscape in
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Dense with humanity and concrete, cities are the amalgam of three periods of time: past, present, and future. Plans made long ago create successes, as well as nagging, current needs, while residents (and their elected officials) hammer out hopeful visions of the future. Thus, slow but wrenching change is the
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Without a doubt the most renowned glass artist of our time is Dale Chihuly, the enterprising Seattleite whose squiggly chandeliers, delicate floating orbs, and walk-through installations are the most familiar examples of "glass art." His work is ubiquitous, and love it or loath it (it's sometimes a challenge to appreciate
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"Orchard Park" is British photographer Andy Lock's documentation of the vacant rooms in an apartment tower of the same name. The photographs record the time after the tenants had left the complex and just prior to the building's demolition. Lock, who will take the stage at the Dryden Theatre on
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Density, among many other methods, can be employed to measure an exhibition. How many reactions are piqued by that one visit to the museum or studio? How many issues were raised? Did the subject punch or caress? Were the medium and materials challenged? Matters of display can add or subtract
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It's as if music and visual art have long been gracefully waltzing, always alternating who leads. The 20th century alone witnessed much of the mutual benefit of this dance - proto-postmodernist Marcel Duchamp created music based on unpredictability and chance in the early 1910s. Those ideas would later inspire legendary
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Given current sensitivities surrounding the thorny issue of immigration, one might be puzzled to find Mexican artist Marcos Ramirez (also known as "Erre") erecting a towering Trojan Horse at the border between Tijuana and San Diego. As legend has it, the original Trojan Horse enabled Greek troops to clandestinely enter
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Though only one name is signed beneath the text greeting visitors to Rochester Contemporary's "For Drawing Sake," the words serve as a voice for all six artists whose work is on view. Unfolding as a series of one-line statements, it explains why they do what they do: "We draw to
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It's tempting to think the Memorial Art Gallery's biennial "Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition" is something it's not. Though one might anticipate seeing the best works by the region's most talented artists, this is an impression the MAG seems eager to dispel. "‘Finger Lakes' does not attempt to be a comprehensive survey,
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Like a formal dinner party, the orchestration of a group show of contemporary art is no easy task. Decisions of who to invite and where they'll be seated can bring chaos or harmony --- have painting and photography reconciled their initial difficulties enough to play nice? Will a boisterous multimedia
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Throughout photography's history the question has been repeatedly asked: "What can photographs do?" This is a much more complex question than "What can photographs be used for?" From the uneasy cousins of art and advertising to all things in between, images have been employed in myriad ways. But the larger
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Aesthetically speaking, rooftops are not generally much to look at. Compared to other architectural elements, roofs are somewhat ignored, especially in comparison to the ornamental flourishes found on windows and doors, and the attention to detail of many beautifully painted homes. Still the roof soldiers on, fulfilling its mundane but
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It's hard to know what you'll find in a group show. Works can vary wildly in quality and maturity, and often the show's only constant is the white of the gallery walls. Despite these challenges, group shows offer a snapshot of a collective mind. The current exhibition at AV provides
