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Flags at half-mast honor fallen soldier
Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has directed that flags on state government buildings—including those at UB—be flown at half-mast on Aug. 14 in honor of a New York Soldier who died in Sarkowi, Afghanistan, on Aug. 8.
Maj. Thomas E. Kennedy of West Point died when an insurgent detonated a suicide vest. He was assigned to the Headquarters Company of the 4th Infantry Division’s 4th Brigade Combat Team based at Fort Carson, Colo.
Cuomo has ordered that flags on all state buildings be lowered to half-mast in honor of and tribute to New York service members who are killed in action or die in a combat zone.
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‘Objectivity Theater’ at Anderson Gallery
“Adam Levin: Objectivity Theater,” three separate but thematically connected projects on how the construction of “objectivity” operates to condition knowledge, will open with a public reception from 6-8 p.m. Aug. 18 in the UB Anderson Gallery.
The exhibition, on view through Oct. 21, will be free and open to the public.
“Objectivity Theater” looks not at what is known, but how something is known. Each project examines different epistemological traditions through the juxtaposition/misapplication of the research methodologies that inform specific disciplinary practices over time.
The goal is to reveal points of productive disciplinary cross-pollination, as well as the fissures that occur when specific practices cultivated within the context of particular fields of research are appropriated and applied to subjects for which they were not intended. In doing so, the projects question the universal claims of objectivity itself and seek to reveal the relativist foundations of knowledge creation.
The projects draw from a diverse array of empirical methodologies, including the morphological, physiological and histological traditions emerging from 17th- and 18th-century microscopic practices that, in turn, informed criminology and politically sanctioned eugenics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (“The Catalog of Curiosity”); 18th- and 19th-century practices of specimen collection, identification and categorization from natural historical field investigations, combined with contemporary practices of urban cartography and cultural anthropology (“The Desiderata Archive, pictured above); and the laboratory practices of artificial organismic propagation as they relate to art historical analyses of styles, movements and artistic lineages (“Culture Cultures”).
In this exhibition, a strange fruit of disciplinary hybrids emerges, closer in spirit to early alchemical research, with its emphasis not only on what the ultimate subject of knowledge might be, but who is seeking it, how and to what end.
The UB Anderson Gallery, located at One Martha Jackson Place near Englewood and Kenmore avenues, is open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and from 1-5 p.m. on Sunday.
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CFA switches to Tickets.com
The Center for the Arts has changed its ticketing service agency to Tickets.com from Ticketmaster.
Joel Thompson, director of ticket operations for the CFA, says the move was made to help patrons with lower service fees.
“The Center for the Arts remains committed to keeping ticket prices affordable in Western New York, and the fight against rising ticketing service charges is central to that mission,” Thompson says. “This new partnership with Tickets.com allows us to move forward with no fee increases in the foreseeable future, allowing our patrons the best opportunity to see the great entertainment they’ve come to expect from our stages at reasonable prices.”
The CFA is selling tickets online via Tickets.com for events being held on Oct. 1 or later. Consumers purchasing tickets for events prior to Oct. 1 should still use Ticketmaster.com.
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