Oh, misfortunate humanity! To be aware of ourselves is to suffer and to know it - what a grab bag of boons and curses is our lot. And oh, the resultant, urgently probing existential angst. And the horrors we commit! World War II was certainly...
Human Sexuality: the Final Frontier! Here is the truth: we have always stood in awkward, vulnerable terror of our sexual nature. In lusting after strict and neat definitions, we forsake the beauty and freedom that can be found in seeing that the...
ART REVIEW: "Beauty Plus Pity"
"The world is perfect, and we're such fuckups," Emily Vey Duke laments in "The Birds Come Back," one episode within "Songs of Praise for the Heart Beyond Cure," a video by the Canadian artist-couple Duke and Battersby. This month at Rochester...
ART REVIEW: "The Arrogance of Power"
Robert Ernst Marx is disturbed. He does not render pretty, comfortable images. His despairing muses are distorted and bound, either overtly or metaphorically; they wear the heavy signals of every kind of subjugation. But they've largely done it...
ART REVIEW: Sharon Gordon and Peter Harris
You've heard that old adage, "It's not the destination, but the journey." How many times have you finally arrived at a location or at a goal, only to experience an anticlimactic, underwhelming result? So after a rest, we plot our next...
ART REVIEW: "Sound Meditations"
Not everyone who is born with a creative impulse is graced with the familial support for that drive. Todd Stahl not only benefited from such support, but has also chosen to pay it forward and foster that spark in artists of the next generation....
My wife Deb and I have this get-out-of-jail free policy for affairs outside the marriage; each...
Local restaurants will square off to see who can stir up the best chili in town at this year's...
What child hasn't dreamed of flying, battling bad guys, and saving the world? Role-playing as...
Thank goodness summer is over. It's not that we're glad to see the sun, the beaches, or the...
OUR MONSTER ISSUE! The results are in! This year THOUSANDS of Rochesterians voted in our annual...
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Susan Kendrick said:
Provocative - I own 2 Robert Marx graphite works that are haunting figures. People always gravitate towards , them full of questions, they want...
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Brenda Nardi said:
I was fortunate enough to see this exhibition on a recent trip to Rochester. I am amazed by the powerful statement each of Robert's works make...
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Cindy Chandler said:
Awesome work. Todd is a role-model for his young students! This work illustrates why he is so motivational in the classroom!
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Ben Murphy said:
Chric Kogut got involved with CFC's work resettling Burmese (Myanmar) refugees last year and she is a true gem! Not to mention that her work is...
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Michelle said:
This is a thoughtful review of an impressive show at Image City Gallery. Anyone who hasn't seen the show should stop by the gallery before it...
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