Arts and Culture

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  • Olson at the Century -- A Symposium Will Honor Poet Charles Olson Oct. 14-16
    9/30/10
    Charles Olson (1910-1970), the very influential second-generation modernist poet and essayist, was a crucial link between earlier figures like Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams and the New American poets of New York School, the Black Mountain School, the Beat movement and the San Francisco Renaissance. This year, on the 100th anniversary of his birth, Olson is being feted at conferences and symposia at several universities and poetry centers, including the University at Buffalo, where he taught from 1963 to 1965.
  • Jonathan Katz, Noted Art Historian And Scholar of Queer Studies, Joins UB Faculty
    9/27/10
    The Sept. 9 issue of the New York Times included an article about an important new art exhibition scheduled to open Oct. 30 in the National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution: "Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture." It is the first major museum exhibition to focus on sexual difference in the making of modern American portraiture and marks a major distinction in the career of art historian Jonathan D. Katz, PhD, a new associate professor in the University at Buffalo Visual Arts Department where he will direct the new doctoral program.
  • Zodiaque Dance Company to Open 37th Season on Oct. 20
    9/21/10
    The Department of Theatre and Dance at the University at Buffalo will present Zodiaque Dance Company "The 37th Season" Oct. 20-24 in the Drama Theatre in the Center for the Arts on the UB North Campus. Performances will be held Wednesday through Saturday at 8 p.m. and Sunday at 2 p.m.
  • Poet Amy Gerstler Will Present Silverman Reading at UB in November
    9/13/10
    Award-winning American poet Amy Gerstler, whose witty, complex work around themes of redemption, suffering and survival led the Los Angeles Times to call her "one of the best poets in the nation," will present the University at Buffalo's 2010 Oscar Silverman Reading on Nov. 19 at 8 p.m. in 250 Baird Hall on the UB North Campus.
  • 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.