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  • Major Conference, Retrospective Exhibition at UB Art Galleries to Focus on Artpark's Influential Early Years
    9/10/10
    The seminal years of Artpark, the influential, highly acclaimed artist residency program in Lewiston, N.Y., will be the subject of a conference presented by the University at Buffalo Art Galleries to be held Oct. 8-9.
  • Architect Creates 'Bat Tower' at Local Sculpture Park
    9/7/10
    A University at Buffalo architect's new project -- a twisted tower designed to house bats at Griffis Sculpture Park -- is raising awareness about the animals and a fatal disease threatening their population in the Northeast.
  • Stanford Lipsey's Photography Featured in UB Exhibit
    9/1/10
    A collection of more than 20 photographs by Buffalo News publisher Stanford Lipsey will be on display in the University at Buffalo's Kaveeshwar Gallery from Sept. 1 to Oct. 2.
  • UB's Most Dangerous Artists Will Be Well-Represented at Buffalo Infringement Festival
    7/15/10
    "Art Under the Radar," Buffalo's sixth annual infringement festival, featuring 350 art projects and 700 performances, concerts, exhibitions, films and plays, will take place July 22 to Aug. 1 in more than 50 venues throughout the city, and University at Buffalo artists will be in the thick of it, saving the city's historic Scajaquada Drain, offering comic books on demand and much, much more.
  • UB Prof Melanie Aceto Takes Her Dance Troupe on the Road This Summer
    7/14/10
    Dance aficionados looking for something "UB" to do this summer may want to consider attending a performance by Melanie Aceto Contemporary Dance (MACD), which will be on the road in July and August.
  • 19th-Century Spirit Photos -- A Marriage of Technology and the Irrational
    6/16/10
    In the latter part of the 19th century, a range of powerful new visual technologies were developed that used the intrinsic mechanics of light-sensitive media to achieve spiritual allusions and illusions. Elizabeth Otto, PhD, an award-winning art historian at the University at Buffalo, is particularly interested in "spirit photographs" and the cultures of the paranormal as they relate to the Romantic tradition of spirit or Geist in late 19th- and early 20th-century Austria and Germany and the rise of modernism.
  • UB Choirs' Conductor Harold Rosenbaum To Receive ASCAP's Victor Herbert Award
    5/25/10
    Virtuoso choral conductor Harold Rosenbaum, associate professor of music at the University at Buffalo, where he conducts the UB choirs and heads the graduate program in choral conducting, will receive the 2010 Victor Herbert Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) in recognition of his contribution to the choral repertory and his service to American composers and their music.
  • UB Professor Stephen Henderson Nominated for Tony Award
    5/11/10
    Actor and director Stephen McKinley Henderson of Buffalo, a professor of theatre and dance at the University at Buffalo known particularly as a performer of the ouvre of the late playwright August Wilson, has been nominated for a Tony Award for his performance in the Broadway revival of Wilson's 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences."
  • At UB's Anderson Gallery: "Under Each Other's Spell": The Gutai and New York
    4/27/10
    An exhibition at the University at Buffalo's Anderson Gallery explores the fruitful relationship between Japan's avant garde Gutari Art Group, founded in 1954 in Osaka, and some of New York's most influential artists of the 1950s and '60s, among them Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauchenberg and Jasper Johns.
  • UB Anderson Gallery: Paul Jenkins in the 1960s and 1970s: Space, Color and Light
    4/26/10
    The University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery is presenting an exhibition titled Paul Jenkins in the 1960s and 1970s: Space, Color and Light through Aug. 22