Arts and Culture

"Strange Culture." a documentary film about the recent experiences of noted bio-artist Steve Kurtz, associate professor of art at the University at Buffalo, will have its world premiere at "ZeroOne San Jose: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge," Aug. 7-13 in San Jose, Calif.

Francisco Toledo: Contemporary Graphic Art, an exhibition in the University at Buffalo's Anderson Gallery that highlights prints from UB's permanent collection, has been extended through July 16.

"Politics is Local: National Politics at the Grassroots," a new book by Canadian political scientists Donald Munroe Eagles and R. Kenneth Carty, has been short listed for the Donald Smiley Prize, awarded annually by the Canadian Political Science Association to the best book published in the previous year dealing with Canadian politics or government.

"Layers: Collecting Cuban-American Art" comprises work from two private and one institutional collection to illustrate how collecting art involves the negotiation of identities.

An exhibition of work by students from Kenmore West High School will open in the UB Anderson Gallery Arts Education Classroom (second floor) with a public reception from 7-9 p.m. on May 19. The exhibition of paintings, photos, prints and sculpture was selected from more than 250 submissions from students in grades 9 through 12.

In the lobby of a nondescript brick building on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus, a unique marriage of sorts is taking place through a new "Physics and Arts Exhibition."

When trying to lie your way through any situation, keep a tight rein on your zygo maticus major and your orbicularis oculi. They'll give you away faster than a snitch. So says a University at Buffalo social psychologist, whose revolutionary research on human facial expressions in situations of high stakes deception debunks myths that have permeated police and security training for decades.

Christopher Johnson-Robertson of Buffalo, a student at City Honors High School, has been awarded first-prize in the annual poetry contest for high school students sponsored by the University at Buffalo College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present David Sedaris at 8 p.m. on Oct 10 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. on May 5.

Joseph I. Fradin, Ph.D., of Buffalo, professor emeritus of English at the University at Buffalo, died of cancer on April 24. He was 80.