Monday, March 10, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

"What If...?" FIlm Series: A Community Concern
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

A Community Concern (2011) is a documentary that shows the powerful changes that happen when organizers, parents, and youth work with educators to improve urban public schools. The film not only provides motivation, bringing viewers a window into a growing national movement that is generally below the media radar, but it can serve as a bridge between different constituencies.

The film will be followed by a facilitated discussion.

Flashback Mondays Movie Series: Fargo

Price: $5
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

The Impact of the Holocaust
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

FILM: Knowledge or Certainty (1973, Jacob Bronowski, 50 minutes)
In 1973 the BBC broadcast an 11-part documentary on cultural evolution written and hosted by Polish-born mathematician and poet Jacob Bronowski. Its title, The Ascent of Man, played on the title of Darwin's 1871 book on natural evolution. In this episode, Bronowski suggests that toleration of uncertainty is necessary in pursuing knowledge. He argues that insisting on certainty is what allowed for the Holocaust and other genocides.

SPEAKERS: Barrie Gewanter and Ute Ritz-Deutch
The Impact of Holocaust and Refugee Experience: How Two Human Rights Advocates Reached the Same Place from Different Directions.
After the film screening, Barrie Gewanter and her friend and ally Ute Ritz-Deutch will join us in a public conversation about the similarities and contrasts in their family's refugee histories, and how they both reacted to the realities of the Holocaust by heading on a path towards human rights work; Ute from a Christian childhood in Germany and Barrie from an American childhood with her Jewish European Grandparents.

Francine Prose
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

A best-selling fiction writer and author of A Changed Man. She is a National Book Award finalist for Blue Angel and The Glorious Ones, which was adapted into an off-Broadway musical.

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

*CLOSED* It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

*CLOSED TODAY* Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

*CLOSING AT 1:00* Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

*CLOSING AT 3:00* International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

*CLOSING AT 3:00* Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

*CLOSING AT 3:00* William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

*CLOSING AT 3:00* Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

*CLOSING AT 3:00* Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

*CLOSING AT 3:00* Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

*CLOSED TODAY* Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

*CLOSED TODAY* Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

*CLOSED TODAY* Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

*CANCELLED* The Insider
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

The Insider (1999, 157 minutes)
Directed by Michael Mann with Russell Crowe, Al Pacino and Christopher Plummer.

*CANCELLED* Kelly Covert, flute and piccolo; Sar-Shalom Strong, piano
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Music by Beaser, Clarke, and Schwantner.

*CANCELLED* Storyteller Series
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Colin Aberdeen, Chris Merkley

Price: $12.50 in advance, $14.50 at the door
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Tonight's concert is cancelled due to weather and will be rescheduled at a future date.

Intimate performances by your favorite local singer/songwriters. hear their songs and the stories about why they were written, what inspired them, or about life backstage and on the road.

Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com.

*CANCELLED* Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tonight's performance has been cancelled due to weather. If you have tickets, please call 315-443-3275 to exchange them for another performance.

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Thursday, March 13, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's exhibition of Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics from Mar. 17 - May 30.

From the Artist Statement:
"I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me" reflects on my background of years of studying and teaching Hindu rituals as a Brahmin priest in India. By creating parallels between the artist as priest, the art object as a deity, and viewing it in the gallery/museum as a pilgrimage I explore how conceptual art practice translates to thousands of years of intricate Hindu theory on dealing with imagery.

In the two-way viewing theory of darsana, the pilgrim/viewer takes darsana of, or sees, the deity. Just as important though is that the deity is always looking back at the pilgrim/viewer, creating an acknowledgement of the viewer's reverential presence.

In this video, the priest/artist uses a bathing ritual, usually reserved for venerating a deity, to worship the viewer. Flipping around the darsana idea explores how the presence of the viewer vindicates the existence of the art object, e.g. The viewer venerates the art object by coming to its temple/gallery to see it, the art object in turn, ritually welcomes and worships the viewer.

About the Artist:
Michael Bühler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Born in New Jersey, he lives and works in New York City. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, obtained his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and his MFA from University of Florida. Recent work and curated projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Vogt Gallery, New York; Scaramouche, NY; Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai; Nature Morte, New Delhi; and Carroll and Sons, Boston. His work is held in the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, the SK Kultur Stiftung/Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, and the Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. He is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Cooper Union.

Cinefest 2014
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/complete festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Main Street To Broadway, 1953, featuring most of the stars of the Broadway theatre of the early 1950s in small roles and cameos
10:45 am: Saturday Night, 1922, featuring Leatrice Joy, Conrad Nagel

LUNCH BREAK

1:00 pm: Trailer Mania: "Taking Trailers Serialsly," hosted by Ray Faiola
2:00 pm: Casey at the Bat, 1927, featuring Wallace Beery, Ford Sterling, Zasu Pitts
3:10 pm: Comedy Rarities from the LOC Collection
     Injuns, 1913, with The Powers Kids
     Blow Your Horn, 1916, with Musty Suffer
     The Serenade, 1916, with Oliver Hardy & Billy Ruge
     His Wife's Mistakes, 1916, with Fatty Arbuckle
     A Queen of Aces, 1925, with Wanda Wiley
     When Knights Were Cold, 1923, with Stan Laurel
4:15 pm: Swing High, 1930, featuring Helen Twelvetrees, Fred Scott, Dorothy Burgess, and directed by Joseph Santley

DINNER BREAK

8:00 pm: Household Blues, 1929, featuring Monte Collins
8:10 pm: The Joy Girl, 1927, featuring Olive Borden, Neil Hamilton, Marie Dressler
9:20 pm: Fanchon, The Cricket, 1915. The Mary Pickford Foundation will be presenting the recent restoration by Cinematheque Francaise of this previously lost and incomplete Mary Pickford film, which also features her brother Jack and sister Lottie.
10:40 pm: The Darkening Trail, 1915, featuring Willilam S. Hart, Enid Markey
11:25 pm: Love From a Stranger, 1937, featuring Basil Rathbone, Ann Harding

Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Death of a Salesman
Central New York Playhouse
Kasey McHale, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Arthur Miller's classic story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.

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Friday, March 14, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Down to Earth: Artists Explore Nature through Photography and Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring American landscape photography from the 19th to the 21st century, these selections from the Everson's permanent collection will exemplify how the genre has progressed through various artistic trends, historical events, cultural changes and technological advances. The installation is complimented by ceramic works of art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

Portals: Urban Landscapes from Havana to Syracuse
La Casita Cultural Center

La Casita Cultural Center
109 Otisco St., Syracuse

An exhibit of 46 photographs of Havana and Syracuse, exhibited on old wooden doors and over a skyline of Havana created on foam. The multicolored lights above the skyline represent the lights of the city of Havana. The blue shimmers below represent the sea that surrounds the city.

A portal opened for Danisley Perez Bravo between two worlds. The exhibition combines the last images that she captured with her lens when she left her beloved city of Havana, and the first ones she took when she arrived in Syracuse to make this her new home.

Guided visits are offered in English or Spanish by appointment. For a guided tour, please email us at lacasita@syr.edu to schedule your visit.

Gladys Triana: Sharply into a Light Space
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This new series of photographs by Gladys Triana evoke our universe and signal the threatening situation caused by climate change. In addition, Triana includes videos and an installation to recreate a new reality, an illusion that raises awareness on this topic.

Triana was born in Cuba and resides in New York City. Her artwork includes prints, drawings, collages, works on canvas, photography, and installations, which have been presented in numerous solo exhibitions around the US and abroad many international collective expositions. Her work is represented in Museums such as The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, El Museo de Arte Moderno, Santo Domingo, El Museo de Bellas Artes, Santiago de Chile, Chile, El Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico, The Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Frost Art Museum, Miami, Florida, among others.

Philippe Halsman's Hollywood
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Genet Design Gallery
The Warehouse, 350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This exhibition of work by noted photographer Philippe Halsman includes 30 portraits of actors and actresses that are on loan from SUArt Galleries.

Born in Riga, Latvia, Halsman (1906-1979) had a prolific career in photography that spanned five decades. A celebrated portraitist, camera designer and father of "jumpology"--the art of photographing subjects mid-jump--Halsman produced images of prominent fashion trends and individuals of his time, including Audrey Hepburn, Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill. His works were featured in articles and as cover art for such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Look and Newsweek. While he made numerous contributions to several magazines throughout his career, Halsman's record 101 Life magazine covers is one of his most notable achievements.

The exhibition is a joint project of the graduate students enrolled in the "Museum Preparation and Installation" and "Museum Graphics and Communications" courses in the museum studies program in VPA's Department of Design, under the guidance of faculty members Andrew Saluti and Carlota Deseda-Coon.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's exhibition of Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics from Mar. 17 - May 30.

From the Artist Statement:
"I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me" reflects on my background of years of studying and teaching Hindu rituals as a Brahmin priest in India. By creating parallels between the artist as priest, the art object as a deity, and viewing it in the gallery/museum as a pilgrimage I explore how conceptual art practice translates to thousands of years of intricate Hindu theory on dealing with imagery.

In the two-way viewing theory of darsana, the pilgrim/viewer takes darsana of, or sees, the deity. Just as important though is that the deity is always looking back at the pilgrim/viewer, creating an acknowledgement of the viewer's reverential presence.

In this video, the priest/artist uses a bathing ritual, usually reserved for venerating a deity, to worship the viewer. Flipping around the darsana idea explores how the presence of the viewer vindicates the existence of the art object, e.g. The viewer venerates the art object by coming to its temple/gallery to see it, the art object in turn, ritually welcomes and worships the viewer.

About the Artist:
Michael Bühler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Born in New Jersey, he lives and works in New York City. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, obtained his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and his MFA from University of Florida. Recent work and curated projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Vogt Gallery, New York; Scaramouche, NY; Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai; Nature Morte, New Delhi; and Carroll and Sons, Boston. His work is held in the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, the SK Kultur Stiftung/Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, and the Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. He is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Cooper Union.

Cinefest 2014
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/complete festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Always Goodbye, 1931, featuring Elissa Landi, Lewis Stone, Paul Cavanagh, and directed by William C. Menzies, Kenneth MacKenna
10:05 am: For the Defense, 1916, featuring Fannie Ward, Jack Dean
11:10 am: The Best of Mostly Lost, from the Library of Congress

LUNCH BREAK

1:00 pm: Undercranking: The Magic Behind the Slapstick, hosted by Ben Model
2:15 pm: Partners in Crime, 1928, featuring Wallace Beery, Mary Brian, William Powell
3:15 pm: Comedy Rarities from the LOC Collection: Mogull Brothers Films
     A Convict's Happy Bride, 1920, with Alice Howell
     The Duel, 1912, with Mack Sennett, Mabel Normand & Ford Sterling
     The New Member, 1921, with Billy Franey
     Her Tender Feet, 1919, with Charles Parrott and Monty Banks
     Not Guilty, 1926, with Charles Puffy
4:25 pm: A Waltz Dream, 1925, featuring Willy Fritsch, Mady Christians

DINNER BREAK

8:00 pm: Songs In the Dark and Dangerous Rhythms, hosted by Richard Barrios
9:15 pm: The New Moon, 1919, starring Norma Talmadge
10:20 pm: Sandy, 1926, featuring Madge Bellamy, Harrison Ford
11:40 pm: Buck Privates, 1922, featuring Lya DePutti, Malcolm McGregor, Zasu Pitts, Eddie Gribbon, and directed by Melville W. Brown

Eastbound Jesus, with Go Down, Moses
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri
NYS Baroque

Price: $25 regular, $20 seniors, $10 college students, children free
First Unitarian Universalist Society of Syracuse
109 Waring Rd. (at the corner of Nottingham Rd.), Dewitt

A masterpiece of sacred music, this cycle of seven cantatas is beautiful and inspirational.

Performers include Laura Heimes, Shari Alise Wilson, sopranos; José Lemos, countertenor; Dann Coakwell, tenor; Steven Hrycelak, bass; Dongmyung Ahn, Boel Gidholm, violins; David Morris, Zoe Weiss, gambas; Heather Miller Lardin, violone; Michael Beattie, organ; Deborah Fox, theorbo.

*POSTPONED* Poet Judith Harris
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The reading is postponed due to travel concerns. It will be rescheduled in the fall.

Judith Harris is the author of Night Garden (Tiger Bark Press, 2012), Atonement (LSU, 2000), The Bad Secret (LSU, 2006), and the critical book Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self through Writing (SUNY, 2003). Her poetry has appeared in The Nation, The Atlantic, The New Republic, Ploughshares, Slate, The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, and American Life in Poetry. She is the recipient of grants and fellowships for her poetry from the D.C. Commission on the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, the Frost Place, and most recently, Yaddo.

Death of a Salesman
Central New York Playhouse
Kasey McHale, director

Price: $20
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Arthur Miller's classic story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.

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The Normal Heart
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Ned prefers loud public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner, none of whom is prepared to throw himself into the media spotlight. Their differences of opinion lead to frequent arguments that threaten to undermine their mutual goal. (Mature audiences 18+)

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Introspections
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Gary Trento: figurative oil paintings
Dana Stenson: mixed media jewelry
Sean Flaherty: portraiture in oil painting
Sharon BuMann: figurative sculpture

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Down to Earth: Artists Explore Nature through Photography and Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring American landscape photography from the 19th to the 21st century, these selections from the Everson's permanent collection will exemplify how the genre has progressed through various artistic trends, historical events, cultural changes and technological advances. The installation is complimented by ceramic works of art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Baker High School Student Exhibit
The Art Store Gallery

Price: Free
The Art Store/Commercial Art Supply
935 Erie Blvd. E., Syracuse

We are thrilled to be featuring student work from Baker High School in Baldwinsville. Fresh and fun art is the best way to describe it.

Opening: Three in Harmony
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

There will be an opening reception this afternoon 1:00-3:00 pm, featuring artists Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, and a discussion with curator David MacDonald.

"Three in Harmony" is an expressive collection of contemporary pieces that are artfully inspired from the Korean ceramic tradition. The artists, Eunjung Shin-Vargas, Jee Eun Lee, and Veronica Byun, have used their modern consciousness to create a deeply sensory experience with gentle Korean traditions. They've articulated a universal relevancy to the human condition, personal relationships, culture, and womanhood in each of their pieces. Even with each artist possessing a distinct personal style, the pieces fuse seamlessly to create this compelling, striking exhibition.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

Getting To Know You: Artists Examine Authentic Connections in the Digital Age
601 Tully

601 Tully St.
Syracuse

Featuring work by Fanny Allié, American Bear, CampusNeighbor, and damali abrams.

In the digital age, people can virtually live their lives online. With the advent of various social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn, it is easier than ever to connect. However, are these relationships genuine? Furthermore, does a social medium foster intimacy or aid in the superficiality of our society? For this exhibition, 601 Tully does not seek to resolve these questions but rather, bring them to light. The featured artists offer avenues for people to have authentic connections with one another through various interactive mediums with and without the assistance of the internet.

New York-based artist, Fanny Allié, invited Syracuse residents to submit photos, memories, and stories about their lives in an attempt to learn more about the community. With each memento, Allié will construct a site-specific installation that will give the audience a window into the individuals living in this area.

While Allié's installation exemplifies the direct interaction between herself and the participant, the collaborative team of American Bear created prompts and assignments for the public to engage with one another. As the assignments are completed, American Bear hopes to foster a more compassionate and community-minded city.

Like many college towns, there is and has always been an underlying fissure between Syracuse University students and the permanent residents. In recent years, Nancy Cantor, former Syracuse University Chancellor, has worked to mend that divide by creating the initiative, Scholarship in Action. CampusNeighbor is a bartering website that builds on that idea by linking these two groups together through skill-sharing, with the hopes that these exchanges will help to dismantle barriers that have been created through the years.

Although all of the above require participation in order to activate the piece, damali abrams, a performance-based artist, takes a different approach by reading from her diary. By exposing herself in this vulnerable manner, it elicits the viewer to relate to her through shared experiences.

Whether one is simply telling their story to Allié or participating in CampusNeighbor, the exhibition aims to get to know you.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

There will be an artist reception this evening 5:00-7:00 pm.

Michael Bühler-Rose: I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me
Urban Video Project

Everson Museum of Art Plaza
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Presented in conjunction with Light Work Gallery's exhibition of Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics from Mar. 17 - May 30.

From the Artist Statement:
"I'll Worship You, You'll Worship Me" reflects on my background of years of studying and teaching Hindu rituals as a Brahmin priest in India. By creating parallels between the artist as priest, the art object as a deity, and viewing it in the gallery/museum as a pilgrimage I explore how conceptual art practice translates to thousands of years of intricate Hindu theory on dealing with imagery.

In the two-way viewing theory of darsana, the pilgrim/viewer takes darsana of, or sees, the deity. Just as important though is that the deity is always looking back at the pilgrim/viewer, creating an acknowledgement of the viewer's reverential presence.

In this video, the priest/artist uses a bathing ritual, usually reserved for venerating a deity, to worship the viewer. Flipping around the darsana idea explores how the presence of the viewer vindicates the existence of the art object, e.g. The viewer venerates the art object by coming to its temple/gallery to see it, the art object in turn, ritually welcomes and worships the viewer.

About the Artist:
Michael Bühler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Born in New Jersey, he lives and works in New York City. He received a Fulbright Fellowship to India, obtained his BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and his MFA from University of Florida. Recent work and curated projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Vogt Gallery, New York; Scaramouche, NY; Chatterjee and Lal, Mumbai; Nature Morte, New Delhi; and Carroll and Sons, Boston. His work is held in the Sammlung Goetz, Munich, the SK Kultur Stiftung/Photographische Sammlung, Cologne, and the Harvard Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA. He is an instructor at the Rhode Island School of Design and The Cooper Union.

Coleman's Irish Hooley

Price: $10 regular, $5 children ages 4-12
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

Coleman's Irish Hooley provides fun for the whole family, including live entertainment, face painting, crafts, and a variety of food (available for sale). The St. Patrick's Day Parade and ACC Tournament games will both be aired live throughout the event so you won't miss any of the day's action. Tickets include ALL DAY parking in The Oncenter Parking Lot as well.

Tickets are available at the Box Office at The Oncenter (760 S. State Street), by phone at 315-435-2121, or online at Ticketmaster.

Cinefest 2014
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/complete festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Man Trouble, 1930, featuring Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Sharon Lynn, Roscoe Karns, and directed by Berthold Vietel
10:30 am: El Brendel Home Movies, hosted by Louie Despres
10:55 am: Bachelor's Affairs, 1932, featuring Adolph Menjou, Minna Gombell, and directed by John G. Blystone

LUNCH BREAK

1:00 pm: What's His Name, 1914, featuring Max Figman, Lolita Robertson, Fred Montague, and directed by Cecil B. DeMille
2:00 pm: The Sky Hawk, 1929, featuring Helen Chandler, John Garrick
3:20 pm: Ankles Preferred, 1927, featuring Madge Bellamy, Lawrence Gray, Barry Norton, Allan Forrest
4:25 pm: The Dancing Pirate, 1936, featuring Frank Morgan

DINNER BREAK

8:00 pm: Home Cured, 1926, directed by Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckl, and starring Johnny Arthur, Virgina Vance
8:15 pm: Not Exactly Gentlemen, aka Three Rogues, 1931, featuring Victor McLaglen, Fay Wray, Lew Cody and directed by Benjamin Stoloff
9:20 pm: The Live Wire, 1925, starring Johnny Hines
10:25 pm: A Dangerous Woman, 1929, featuring Olga Baclanova, Clive Brook, Neil Hamilton, Clyde Cook, and directed by Gerald Grove, Rowland V. Lee.
11:35 pm: Danger On The Air, 1938, featuring Nan Grey, Donald Woods

Jazz on Demand
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: Free
Petit Branch Library
105 Victoria Pl., Syracuse

Performed by the CNY Jazz Trio, Jazz on Demand will demonstrate how jazz musicians think about improvising by showing how they build their ideas on the basic architecture of the song. The one-hour, narrated, family program includes historic background, a call-and-response blues that invites the audience to co-create a blues melody, and a flash card experiment that gives the audience control over what song the combo plays, in what musical style, and at what tempo.

First Annual (315) Get Down: Sophistafunk, with Brownskin Band, The Hornitz, The Trio
Westcott Theater

Westcott Theater
524 Westcott St., Syracuse

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive retelling of the children's classic.

*CANCELLED* Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Tonight's performance is cancelled due to actor illness. Please call the box office at 315-443-3275 to exchange tickets.

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Finnegan's Farewell
Landmark Theatre

Price: $39
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In the spirit of Riverdance and Tony n' Tina's Wedding, Finnegan's Farewell features the best of Irish dancing, music, and singing! Come to an authentic Irish wake and pay your last respects to the dearly departed and beloved U.S. Postal worker, Patrick James Finnegan. Paddy took a day trip to an Atlantic City casino where he won a whopping $2.2 million at the slots. Unfortunately, poor Paddy fell off a ladder while painting the house. As Father Seamus presides over the funeral service we are treated to eulogies, sing-alongs, and a missing corpse!!

Tickets can be purchased through the box office by calling 315-475-7979.

Death of a Salesman
Central New York Playhouse
Kasey McHale, director

Price: $34.95 dinner theater, $20 show only
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Tonight's show will be preceded by dinner at 6:45 pm.

Arthur Miller's classic story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.

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The Normal Heart
Rarely Done Productions
Dan Tursi, director

Price: $20
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Normal Heart is a largely autobiographical play by Larry Kramer. It focuses on the rise of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City between 1981 and 1984, as seen through the eyes of writer/activist Ned Weeks, the gay founder of a prominent HIV advocacy group. Ned prefers loud public confrontations to the calmer, more private strategies favored by his associates, friends, and closeted lover Felix Turner, none of whom is prepared to throw himself into the media spotlight. Their differences of opinion lead to frequent arguments that threaten to undermine their mutual goal. (Mature audiences 18+)

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Sunday, March 16, 2014

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Ice: Work by Bryan Hopkins and Jamie Young
Gandee Gallery

Price: Free
Gandee Gallery
7846 Main St., Fabius

Jamie Young is a Syracuse-area commercial and fine art photographer who studied photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology. His stunning photos in the Ice exhibition were taken on a 2012 trip to Iceland. Young said "the power of nature to constanlty change the landscape is more evident in Iceland than anywhere else on Earth." The images in the show feature ice formations and dynamic landscapes.

Ceramist Bryan Hopkins lives in Buffalo and teaches art at Niagara Community College. He recieved his MFA in Ceramics from SUNY New Paltz. His sculptural and utilitarian ceramics are made with porcelain "following in in the lineage of fine china" and embody the physical qualities of the material, "strength, fagility, translucence".

Culture of the Cocktail Hour
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The story of cocktail fashions has several associations with local history. This exhibit will discover some of those people, places and events, including Syracuse's most famous cocktail lounges of days gone by. Cocktails also conjure up the exciting era of the Roaring Twenties, when speakeasies flourished during the decade of Prohibition. Displays will include the story of one of the most famous local speakeasies, located just a few hundred feet from the OH Museum, including a menu of its libations, and the tale of the police raid that shut it down. Also on exhibit, along with other documents and artifacts of the era will be an original federal court ledger listing arrests and convictions across the state for Prohibition violations and a local brewery's recipes for "near beer" and flavored sodas, which helped keep them in business through the infamous "dry" years when America famously tried unsuccessfully to eliminate intoxicating beverages from its culture.

Snowy Splendor
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

This exhibit will feature oil and watercolor paintings, photographs, drawings and prints of contemporary or vintage winter scenes of Onondaga County.

Fashion After Five
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibit, Fashion After Five, curated by Syracuse University's Jeffrey Mayer, associate professor of fashion design and history and curator of the Sue Ann Genet Costume Collection, will explore the history of the cocktail dress with several spectacular garments from the collections of OHA and the Sue Ann Genet Collection. Also represented in the exhibit will be the work of students from the S.U. Department of Fashion Design who will present their own creations, inspired by the vintage dresses selected for the exhibition—a perfect way to combine the past and the present for this exciting new exhibit.

International Art from the Permanent Collection
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Highlighting the breadth of the collections' encyclopedic holdings and exploring international artists and themes, these new displays explore the genres of photography, prints, paintings and sculpture. Two of the exhibitions on display in the Print and Photo Study Galleries will highlight the University's vast holdings of historical Japanese photographs and prints. The third exhibition will examine artwork created by international artists who have immigrated to the United States.

America's Calling, presented in the Gallery of American Art, is an exhibition of 16 works of art by 15 foreign-born artists, including Ben Shahn, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Josef Albers. The artists included in the exhibition, or their families, were drawn to the United States because it offered opportunities unavailable in their homelands. A variety of media is presented in the display, including painting, ceramics, sculpture and printmaking that are handled using often innovative techniques. Cumulatively, these artists had a profound and permanent effect on the evolution of American art.

The Photo Study Room will present Visions for Sale: Photographs of Nineteenth Century Japan, an exhibition of 22 hand-colored albumen prints from the 19th century exploring the country's people, land and environment that was quickly changing due to modernization. European photographers such as Felice Beato and Baron Raimond Stillfield traveled to Japan to document the nation's exotic landscape and historically idiosyncratic jobs before they were swept away by the tide of modernism.

Ukiyo-e to Shin Hanga: Japanese Woodcuts from the Syracuse University Art Collection will be installed in the Print Study Room and draws from the University's collection of over 300 examples from this important and hugely influential art movement. The prints on view date from the height of color Ukiyo-e printmaking (c1780-1868) through Japan's Meiji period (1868-1912) to 20th century impressions of the Shin Hanga movement (1915-1940s). Masters of this medium are represented, including the work of Utamaro, Kuniyoshi, Hokusai, Hiroshida, Tsuchiya Koitsu and Yoshida Hiroshi. The prints exemplify the soft, painterly style that is synonymous with the Japanese woodcut, and illustrates the wide range of subjects from courtesans to Kabuki theater and the Japanese landscape.

Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"Mithila Painting: The Evolution of an Art Form" is an exhibition of 40 acrylic paintings and color screenprints by 28 different artists, created from the early 1970s to 2010. This exhibition, presented in conjunction with the spring 2014 Ray Smith Symposium, "Transformations in South Asian Folks Arts, Aesthetics, and Commodities," will draw the viewer into a vibrant Indian aesthetic tradition, and traces its evolution from ritual imagery to contemporary social commentary. Also featured in the Galleries as a complement to the Mithila exhibition are two displays: "Modern Visions, Sacred Tales: Selections from the H. Daniel Smith Poster Archive" and "Featured Artwork: Selections from The Ruth Reeves Collection of Indian Folk Art."

William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

"William Kentridge: Nose and Other Subjects" is an exhibition that celebrates recent work from the renowned South African artist. Including work that illustrates his signature style of utilizing linocut blocks printed on dictionary and encyclopedia pages, as well as his dynamic combination of drawing, animation and film, "Nose and Other Subjects" contains over 35 original prints and a video installation shown on three large flat screens.

Arts on Main: Contemporary Prints from South Africa
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features a selection of prints, drawings and works on paper made by emerging artists working at David Krut Projects in Johannesburg, South Africa. Eighteen works from eight artists will be on view, including artists Diane Victor, Deborah Bell, Locust Jones, Senzo Shabangu, Faith 47 and Jürgen Partenheimer. "Arts on Main" refers to the Maboneng Precinct, the creative hub of Johannesburg's new art neighborhood, where an urban community has become the center of artistic collaboration.

Normal: How the Nazis Normalized the Unspeakable
ArtRage Gallery

Price: Free
ArtRage Gallery
505 Hawley Ave., Syracuse

Dan Lenchner's collection of photos of Third Reich life makes the power of the "uncanny" visible. They are both strange and somehow familiar, these snapshots: Nazi officers at family picnics, weddings and christenings, relaxing off-duty and courting their sweethearts, along with mischievous boys at Hitler Youth summer camps, smiling nurses, teenage girls practicing their goose-step, nuns posing with former students in uniform. Here are the threads in the fabric of a nation given over to war, close to 70 years ago. Still we struggle with what to make of their deeds, which lie so outside the frame. Lenchner, a photographer himself, is acutely attuned to this quality about the truth of any image. His book quotes Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, that the "trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him...terribly and terrifyingly normal."

Down to Earth: Artists Explore Nature through Photography and Ceramics
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Featuring American landscape photography from the 19th to the 21st century, these selections from the Everson's permanent collection will exemplify how the genre has progressed through various artistic trends, historical events, cultural changes and technological advances. The installation is complimented by ceramic works of art from the Everson's permanent collection.

Enduring Gift: Chinese Ceramics from the Cloud Wampler Collection
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

For nine years, beginning in 1960, Cloud Wampler donated some 170 Asian works to the Everson Museum. The collection is dominated by a particularly strong core of Chinese ceramics. Spanning nearly 2,000 years, from the Han Dynasty in 200 BCE to the Ching Dynasty that ended in 1912, this selection offers a survey of forms, styles and glazes that are considered still today to be the pinnacle of aesthetic and technical achievements.

Video Vault: The 70s Revisited
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation: $5
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Including works by Paul Kos, Bill Viola, Hermine Freed, Ruth Vollmer, Rita Myers, Richard Serra and Keith Sonnier, this installation will highlight pioneering art video from the Everson's permanent collection that hasn't been on view in decades. The exhibition is an exciting opportunity to immerse oneself in the early world of video art.

Equilibrium: Works by Juan Alberto Cruz
Gallery 4040

Gallery 4040
4040 New Court Ave (off Midler), Syracuse

Featured in this exhibition are new and recent works including Cruz's lyrical figurative-based abstract paintings in oil on canvas, dynamic paper collages that utilize geometric shapes to create visually energetic patterns and new assemblage wood sculptures.

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

Cinefest 2014
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $30/day; $85/complete festival
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Thanks A Million, 1935, featuring Dick Powell, Ann Dvorak, Fred Allen, Patsy Kelly, Paul Whiteman
10:30 am: Sunday morning auction, hosted by Leonard Maltin and George Read
12:00 pm: Justin Herman Show 6, 1950s Paramount Toppers
12:35 pm: The Devil Horse, 1926, featuring Rex The Wonder Horse, Yakima Canutt, Gladys McConnell
1:30 pm: Women Everywhere, 1930, featuring J. Harold Murray, Fifi D'orsay, Clyde Cook, and directed by Alexander Korda.
3:00 pm: The Crab, 1917, featuring Thelma Salter, Frank Keenan. Director: Walter Edwards.
3:55 pm: Flying Luck, 1927, featuring Monty Banks, Jean Arthur, Jack W. Johnston, Kewpie Morgan

The Incurable Romantics Series
Enlighten -- CNY Center for the Arts

Price: $10 adults, children free
Pebble Hill Presbyterian Church
5299 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

An afternoon of music from the Romantic period, with works for piano, voice, violin, and clarinet by Schumann, Spohr, Debussy, Milhaud, and Dvorak, featuring Luba Lesser, mezzo-soprano; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano; Ann McIntyre, violin; Gerald Zampino, clarinet

For more information, phone 315-256-8528 or email lless3@aol.com.

"Swing Italian Style" with Jazz Organ Virtuoso Tony Monaco
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $30 regular, $25 subscribers and donors
Sheraton Syracuse University Grand Ballroom
801 University Ave., Syracuse

Performing his signature hard-driving swing and classic Italian favorites, Tony is sure to be a crowd pleaser. Tony's hot jazz tunes have increased audiences' appreciation of jazz organ and its importance in genres as diverse as R&B, traditional gospel and modern jazz. Many of his critically acclaimed recordings and international releases have made it into the top 10 of JazzWeek's charts. Tony has led such a successful musical career that he has been named the prime instrument endorser of Hammond and Suzuki. He has also been featured on the cover of Keyboard Magazine.

In addition to putting on his own sell-out shows, Tony has performed with many big names in jazz such as Mel Lewis, Red Holloway, Plas Johnson, Sonny Fortune, Jon Faddis, Bruce Forman, Bobby Durham, Russell Malone, Kevin Mahogany, Pat Martino, and even George Benson. CNY Jazz Central is excited to welcome Tony back to Syracuse.

Death of a Salesman
Central New York Playhouse
Kasey McHale, director

Price: $15
CNY Playhouse
Shoppingtown Mall, Entrance No. 4 (adjacent to parking garage), Dewitt

Arthur Miller's classic story revolves around the last days of Willy Loman, a failing salesman, who cannot understand how he failed to win success and happiness. Through a series of tragic soul-searching revelations of the life he has lived with his wife, his sons, and his business associates, we discover how his quest for the "American Dream" kept him blind to the people who truly loved him. A thrilling work of deep and revealing beauty that remains one of the most profound classic dramas of the American theatre.

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Chinglish
Syracuse Stage
May Adrales, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

A hilarious new comedy by David Henry Hwang about the misadventures of miscommunication. An American businessman arrives in a bustling Chinese province looking to score a lucrative contract, but the deal isn't the only thing lost in translation as he tangles with a government official, a bumbling consultant, and a suspiciously sexy bureaucrat. Time magazine named Chinglish one of the best plays of 2011.

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Finnegan's Farewell
Landmark Theatre

Price: $39
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

In the spirit of Riverdance and Tony n' Tina's Wedding, Finnegan's Farewell features the best of Irish dancing, music, and singing! Come to an authentic Irish wake and pay your last respects to the dearly departed and beloved U.S. Postal worker, Patrick James Finnegan. Paddy took a day trip to an Atlantic City casino where he won a whopping $2.2 million at the slots. Unfortunately, poor Paddy fell off a ladder while painting the house. As Father Seamus presides over the funeral service we are treated to eulogies, sing-alongs, and a missing corpse!!

Tickets can be purchased through the box office by calling 315-475-7979.

Monday, March 17, 2014

Playing with Fire: Works by Carol Adamec
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Wilson Art Gallery, Noreen Reale Falcone Library
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Ceramics, bronze cast, and welded steel.

It's a Zoo Out There
Onondaga County Central Library

Price: Free
Onondaga County Central Library
The Galleries of Syracuse, 447 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Photography exhibit, consisting primarily of animals Kelly Parker has photographed during her travels to different zoos, most of which are in the CNY area. Parker has been photographing for more than 20 years but has recently begun to show her work publicly. She hopes that when you look through her photos you too can see some of the many images that she has seen through the lens of her camera.

Watercolors by Christy Lemp and Photographs by Chris Murray
Baltimore Woods Weeks Art Gallery

Price: Free
Baltimore Woods Nature Center
4007 Bishop Hill Rd., Marcellus

Gallery Exhibit: Lin Price--Realities, Dreams and Myths
Onondaga Community College

Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Artist Statement:
These recent works are part of an ongoing series, which often features an "Everyman" character, who exists in invented painterly terrains. It is an alternate dream-like world that mirrors back to us the difficulties of daily existence and unspoken longings. And, although I've chosen to depict a particular model, there is an element of autobiography in many of the paintings.

Recurring themes emerge; work, isolation, stress, searching, anticipation, and caring, and I believe many people in our times can identify with them. The paintings are idiosyncratic and I attempt to execute them with empathy towards the human condition.

Through imagination, playful creation of abstracted spaces, and color composition, I attempt to show an inner world that is mysterious, somehow noble, and non-linear--as dreams and life often are.

The Archive in Motion
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition explores the concept of movement through the materials held by SU Libraries' Special Collections Research Center. Organized around a set of interlinked themes—color, combat, magic, transportation, dance, drawing, athletics, and gravity—the exhibition encompasses rare books, manuscripts, photographs, and original artworks spanning the 15th and 20th centuries. Inspired by the eccentric library of the art historian Aby Warburg and informed by the theoretical discourse on the archive formulated by Walter Benjamin, Jorge Luis Borges, Jacques Derrida, and Michel Foucault, this exhibition highlights the unique character of the collections at Syracuse. From Albert Einstein's original handwritten research paper "On Rotationally Symmetric Stationary Gravitational Fields," through stunning photographs of ballet dancers Paul Draper and George Skibine, to pochoir prints hand-painted by Native Americans, this exhibition not only attends to the representation of movement found in the collections, but it suggests that the archive is itself always in motion.

Night Menagerie: Works by Mark McIntyre
Westcott Community Art Gallery

Price: Free
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Michael Bühler-Rose: New Geographics
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Michael Buhler-Rose's practices on multiple platforms influence his production as an artist. He has described his subjects as "theatrical cultural realities" and "feats of representation through place and displacement." Bühler-Rose uses western painting styles: still lifes, landscapes, portraits, to play with previous political notions of Hindu and Indic aesthetics: representations of gods and goddesses, incense, flowers, or the saris or bharatnaytam outfits worn by young women of European descent who live in a Hindu community in Florida. These pictures create a dialogue between the Orient and the Occident, creating a game of mirrors and reflections that interact endlessly, creating a juxtaposition of territories.

2014 Transmedia Photography Annual Exhibition
Light Work Gallery

Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The exhibition features photographs by seniors from the Art Photography Program in the Department of Transmedia, part of SU's College of Visual and Performing Arts. The bachelor of fine arts degree program in art photography is designed for students who plan to use photography as their primary creative medium. Many of these students will go on to exhibit their photographs nationally and work for magazines, advertising agencies, museums, galleries, corporations, educational institutions, and the fashion industry.

Exhibiting students include Marcy Ayres, Erica Bernstein, Paige Blinn, Cami Brown, Emily Edwards, Ashli Fiorini, Meagan Gregg, Krystle Gunter, Emily Hawing, Mark Hoelscher, Shelby Jacobs, Kelly Kazmierczak, Nicole Letson, Colin Liang, Victoria Nadler, Mary O'Brien, Allison Paap, Gabriela Perez, Sahra Roberts, Samantha Short, Amrita Stuetzle, Lilith Tagariello, Rachel Thalia, Ana Thor, Chris Trigaux, Katie Walsh, and Nils Wiklund.

Dan Wetmore: Golden Dawn
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Light Work Gallery
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Light Work and Community Darkrooms are pleased to present Dan Wetmore's exhibition Golden Dawn, a series of pictures made from 2009-2012, in and between Flint, MI, Binghamton, NY, Cleveland, OH, Wheeling, WV, and Pittsburgh, PA.

Artist statement: I grew up in Pittsburgh. My parents enjoyed driving around and hunting for furniture on the weekends and I got to see much of the city this way. I was taken by the furnaces and mills that lined the rivers--these giant, dark carcasses. At home, the only photo book my parents had was a paperback of Becher typologies and I looked at the blast furnaces and mineheads for hours. Once mobile at sixteen, I explored these places intimately. With a developing fondness and understanding, I began to photograph in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Cuba 2014
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Redhouse is proud to have Julieve Jubin's inspirational and touching photography entitled "Cuba 2014" on exhibit.

Julieve Jubin received her MFA from Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester. She is a photo-based artist working with digital and experimental approaches to the image. She has exhibited her work in the US, Canada, and Europe and is the recipient of several awards and artist residencies. Her work is in the collection of the New York University Law School, Fototeca Cuba, and several private collections. She has taught at The Cooper Union School of Art, the International Center of Photography, Purdue University, and is currently an Associate Professor of Art at SUNY Oswego. She resides in New York City and Oswego.

Artist Statement:
Within the last few years, I've traveled to Cuba to photograph, as well as teach my course, Travel Photography: Cuba. During my first research trip in 2011, I immediately recognized that Cuba was different than any other place I had been. Certainly, I expected to see the old American cars, Spanish colonial architecture, and propaganda. What I didn't expect was the richly textured character of the street life. ... Within the last few years, largely due to the economic reforms and loosening of restrictions, streets and neighborhoods are transforming as new small businesses develop and homes are being restored. Fortunately, this shifting landscape hasn't yet altered the daily rituals and spirited atmosphere of the street life I've been so privileged to know. But it's clear Cuba is moving away from the time capsule it once inhabited towards a new, yet undetermined future.