Looking for great bargains? Don't miss the chance to browse and buy antiques, artworks and next-to-new collectibles at Art & Treasures. The popular annual sale takes place Friday and Saturday, June 27 and 28 at the Memorial Art Gallery. Sponsored by the Gallery Council, it’s the place to find gently used antiques, jewelry, artwork, china, porcelain, silver, crystal, fine linens and furniture. Admission is free, with all sales to benefit the Gallery.
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American Impressionism: Paintings from The Phillips Collection opens at the Memorial Art Gallery and remains on view through June 15. This major traveling exhibition showcases 54 rarely-seen paintings from the golden age of American Impressionism (ca. 1880–1920), from one of the country's premier museums.
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Edgar Degas's Dancers, Claude Monet's Towing a Boat, Honfleur and Mary Cassatt's Young Mother, Daughter and Baby are among the treasures in a second companion show that includes paintings and works on paper by Impressionist masters, as well as by artists of the period who influenced and were influenced by the Impressionist movement.
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Art that moves across and beyond geographical, cultural, political and aesthet- ic borders is the subject of a major traveling exhibition that opens October 6, 2007 at the Memorial Art Gallery.
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Join us rain or shine September 8 and 9 for the Memorial Art Gallery's largest fund-raiser—the M&T Bank Clothesline Festival. Celebrating its 51st year, this major community event fills the Gallery's 17-acre campus with art, entertainment, food and much more.
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"Seeing America,"Â a major reinstallation of the Memorial Art Gallery's noted American collection, is now open to the public. Spanning four centuries and occupying 7,000 square feet on Memorial Art Gallery's first floor, the new installation brings together some of the finest works in the collection as it constitutes what chief curator Marjorie Searl calls "a journey in space and time."Â
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Fun, funky and provocative, Willie Cole's art explores identity, race relations, consumerism, the environment and other contemporary concerns. Bicycles, irons, hair dryers and high-heeled shoes are among the urban artifacts he transforms into powerful, iconic, "Africanized"Â works.
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Every two years, hundreds of artists compete for space and cash awards in what has become one of the most prestigious shows in the region. Like the Rochester Biennial, with which it alternates, the Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition showcases recent work by emerging and established artists from upstate New York.
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Protected for Eternity: The Coffins of Pa-debehu-Aset
This interactive exhibit for all ages showcases a rare pair of lavishly decorated nesting coffins that once held the mummy of an Egyptian official. Learn how the coffins were restored, write your name in hieroglyphics and follow the fascinating process of mummification.
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By turns humorous and critical, inspirational and tragic, TRANSactions dispels the myth that Latino people are a heterogeneous group with common experiences and ambitions. This traveling exhibition features approximately 50 works in all media by artists from the United States, Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Spain, Brazil, Columbia, Argentina and Chile.
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Pollock on Paper
This exhibition explores two very different portfolios by American master Jackson Pollock. The first series of six etchings with drypoint dates from 1944, three years before the artist began creating his trademark abstract paintings. The other series of six serigraphs was made in 1951.
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Merchants, bankers, rulers, patrons of the arts and sciences, and extraordinary collectors-the Medicis dominated the political and cultural life of Florence from the 15th to the mid-18th centuries. This exhibition features 40 sumptuous still-life paintings, or natura morta, collected or commissioned by Medici rulers from Cosimo II to the last Grand Duke of Tuscany.
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