Arts and Culture

The University at Buffalo Art Gallery will present "Carlos Estevez: Images of Thought," an exhibition that will run Nov. 5 to Feb. 13 in its first floor gallery and will feature 31 works by the esteemed Cuban-born artist.

Buffalo's detritus and blight, what Hadas Steiner, associate professor of architecture at the University at Buffalo, calls "its bounty of domestic and industrial flotsam," has long been the stuff of Dennis Maher's art.

"Toward the Sentient City" is an exhibition two years in the making that originated among University at Buffalo architects and will give you a whiff of the future, with its smart dust, text messages to fish and devices that provide electricity then sort of "eat" the carbon dioxide it produces.

"Frank Lloyd Wright's Buffalo Venture: From the Larkin Building to Broadacre City," is an exhibition focused on the context in which Buffalo became a locus for Wright's architectural activities in the first decades of the 20th century. It will be presented by the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery Oct. 2 to Dec. 30.

Stephen Marc, a noted African-American photographer and digital montage artist, has spent nearly a decade on the road in the U.S. and Canada documenting the places and people associated with America's Underground Railroad. The network of secret routes and safe houses used by escaping enslaved African Americans is the subject of "Passage on the Underground Railroad," an exhibition of complex digital montages that will be presented in the University at Buffalo Art Gallery.

Carol June Bradley, 74, of Kenmore, N.Y., a national award-winning librarian emerita at the University at Buffalo, noted author and a distinguished member of her profession who educated a generation of music librarians, died July 27, 2009, in Millard Fillmore Hospital, Buffalo, N.Y.

"We Need Food Not Bombs," a documentary film about the local chapter of a decades-old international movement by University at Buffalo graduate student Ron Douglas, has been programmed for national and international broadcast by Free Speech TV.

In conjunction with this summer's exhibition "Discovering James Joyce: The University at Buffalo Collection," the UB Anderson Gallery will hold lectures and other art-related activities in the gallery located at One Martha Jackson Place (off Englewood Avenue between Main Street and Kenmore Avenue), Buffalo.

The Center for the Arts at the University at Buffalo will present the Buffalo Dance Festival at 8 p.m. on Aug. 1 in the Mainstage Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North (Amherst) Campus. The inaugural festival will feature LehrerDance and Configuration Dance Theatre.

"Salvador Dali," an exhibition of works by the Spanish surrealist that coincides with the 20th anniversary of his death, will be presented June 27 to Aug. 9 by the University at Buffalo Anderson Gallery.