When you have an exhibit of Native North American art, you'd expect to find a worshipful inclusion of the natural world. True, it's clichéd, but it's a cliché the artists embrace as they try to show us what we're missing, in our...
ART REVIEW: "Makers & Mentors"
"Who the hell knows where any of these things come from?" Julianna Furlong Williams joked with the audience last Sunday afternoon, during the artists' talk for the 2010 edition of Rochester Contemporary's "Makers & Mentors" series. This...
ART REVIEW: "(en)Gendered: A Group Exhibit About Gender and Identity"
For many, the "college experience" runs coterminous to a period of wing-spreading, the creation and testing of a self-defined identity, and learning how to navigate this world as an individual. So as the viewer of an undergraduate art show, you...
ART REVIEW: "Art from the Arctic" at Memorial Art Gallery
I have conflicting feelings regarding some cultural artifacts in museum collections. While I'm fascinated to learn about them and appreciate their aesthetic value, and while they certainly deserve the preservation and prestige that can be...
REVIEW: "Where We Live" at George Eastman House
Disclaimer: My heart belongs to Rochester, but now is the winter of my discontent. I visited the Eastman House's "Where We Live" exhibition with a lot of love and pride for this city, but of the unconsciously blind, naïve sort that...
Of all the things we take for granted in our daily experience, perhaps foremost is our basic physical freedom. Artist Heidi Kumao, a 2009 Guggenheim fellow and current artist resident of The Visual Studies Workshop, is interested in the ways...
It's not that Wilkes-Barre dark heavies Breaking Benjamin are letting up on the gas with the...
St. Patrick's Day is filled with corned beef and cabbage, shamrocks, tacky bright green...
"You're in my spotlight," Pandora Boxx says with a coo as she playfully shoos a particularly...
Step right up to the greatest show in town: City Newspaper's Best of Rochester 2009! Every...
This past weekend I took my nieces and nephew sledding at Harris Whalen Park in Penfield....
Recent Comments
G. Peter Jemison said:
Rebecca a short note to thank you for the excellent and insightful review of Inside Out Haudenosaunee. My apology for taking so long to get this...
in ART REVIEW: "Inside Out Haudenosaunee"/"Nya:weh"
Mark Vosburgh said:
As a mixed-blood person, or white & Seneca ancestry, I understand completely your choice of the word 'pale' over white. Ironic, that anyone would...
in ART REVIEW: "Inside Out Haudenosaunee"/"Nya:weh"
Rebecca Rafferty said:
To further clarify: I used "pale folk" not to refer to all who are not Haudenosaunee (as this would obviously leave out many people), but to refer...
in ART REVIEW: "Inside Out Haudenosaunee"/"Nya:weh"
Rebecca Rafferty said:
I did consider the potential for this term to offend. But: Why is "pale" a more outdated than "white"? Caucasians are not white, they are pale. I...
in ART REVIEW: "Inside Out Haudenosaunee"/"Nya:weh"
Tbird said:
The show, named for the tribes known to pale folk as Iroquois... This was your sentence. Why did you choose to use "pale folk" to describe...
in ART REVIEW: "Inside Out Haudenosaunee"/"Nya:weh"