Archive for December, 2009
We’ll be on News 10 NBC at Noon Today
By Larissa Masny, Gallery Buzz Editor Have the day off? We’ll be on Rochester, NY’s News 10 NBC at Noon today to talk about our brand new Helen H. Berkeley Gallery of Ancient Art. If you have family or friends in town, bring them over to the museum! Not only do we have the new […]
Posted: December 31st, 2009 under Collection, Exhibitions.
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Kwanzaa Family Day
By Larissa Masny, Gallery Buzz Editor Memorial Art Gallery‘s Kwanzaa Family Day was highly attended by the media yesterday. Click on the links to view their stories: YNN 9 WHEC 10 Fox Rochester 31/News 8 Democrat and Chronicle
Posted: December 28th, 2009 under Education.
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Watch Memorial Art Gallery Curators on TV
By Larissa Masny, Gallery Buzz Editor Sydney Greaves, Estelle B. Goldman Assistant Curator of Education, Docent Program, interviewed with News 10 NBC Anchor Nikki Rudd on Rochester In Focus this Sunday and CW 16 Anchor Evan Dawson Thursday. You can watch Sydney on the CW 16 here: bit.ly/7KVJBU Nancy Norwood, Curator of European Art, interviewed […]
Posted: December 21st, 2009 under Collection.
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Helen H. Berkeley Gallery of Ancient Art Now Open
By Larissa Masny, Gallery Buzz Editor The Helen H. Berkeley Gallery of Ancient Art opened to the public yesterday. This brand new gallery showcases the Memorial Art Gallery’s collection of art from ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Visitors will be able to see intricate details of the works now illuminated by fiber optic lighting. The […]
Posted: December 17th, 2009 under Collection.
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Imagining the Arctic
By Cynthia Culbert, Assistant Curator In 2005, the Memorial Art Gallery received five stonecut prints by Inuit artists. The prints were part of the bequest of Isabel Herdle, former curator and assistant director of the Memorial Art Gallery for forty years. Pudlo Pudlat, Fish Lake, 1966, Stonecut, Bequest of Isabel C. Herdle, 2005.68 They were […]
Posted: December 7th, 2009 under Collection, Exhibitions.
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New Gallery Opens In Two Weeks
By Larissa Masny, Gallery Buzz Editor In a little less than two weeks, the Helen H. Berkeley Gallery of Ancient Art will be open to the public! For a blog entry by a Memorial Art Gallery excited visitor showing the new gallery being built, click here. To find out more about these galleries that will […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2009 under Collection.
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The Smithsonian’s Paley Gates
By Larissa Masny, Gallery Buzz Editor The Smithsonian American Art Museum is home to gates designed by internationally-renown Rochesterian artist Albert Paley. Rochester’s own Memorial Art Gallery will be hosting a major solo exhibition of Paley’s work Spring 2010. Read why they are reinstalling Paley’s gates at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Gallery by clicking here. You […]
Posted: December 1st, 2009 under Exhibitions.
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