Guest author Meagan Wilson explores the techniques of Clyfford Still and details her experiences interpreting the artist's abstract work ..read more

Narsiso Martinez: From These Hands/De Estas Manos sparks dialogue about food systems in the art museum. While sauntering through the gallery, visitors must contend with specific people who underpin America’s food supply. By bringing our distant and opaque food system into startling relief, the exhibition forces the viewer to wonder who grew their oranges, where, and under what conditions.  ..read more

Long before the Buffalo AKG Art Museum opened to the public, some of the first people we wanted to see it were poets. Specifically, we wanted the amazingly talented wordsmiths at Just Buffalo Literary Center to tell us what they imagined for the new museum ..read more

Similar to Central African lore (plural minkisi), Vanessa german's "power figures" are formed from aggregations of the everyday and the symbolic: shells, bottles, keys, stuffed fabric pouches, string, beads, rhinestones. The empowered objects of her figures’ compositions heal, protect, and ward off evil. Their declarative stances and materials imbue the sculptures with complexity, beauty, and magic ..read more

"Cameras don't make things beautiful; they don't make things at all. They're simply extensions of our fixations, magnifiers of our desires, pointed at things beautiful. The result: a photograph ..read more

A year ago, artist Monet Kifner completed work on the side of Lace & Day, a Franklin Street business specializing in lingerie. An artist who grew up and and now lives and works in Buffalo, Kifner has been forging a career in graphic design and illustration with clients all over the world ..read more

We’re in Springville, New York, a forty-minute drive from the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, standing in a communal artspace with the muralist Mandi Caskey, aka Miss Birdie.  ..read more

Narsiso Martinez’s artwork honors the work done by immigrant labor to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to the homes of millions of Americans. Alongside that artwork, we are sharing a series of poems from the farmworker community.  ..read more

Narsiso Martinez’s artwork honors the work done by immigrant laborers to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to the homes of millions of Americans. Alongside that artwork, we are sharing a series of poems from the farmworker community.  ..read more

Narsiso Martinez’s artwork honors the work done by immigrant labor to bring fresh fruits and vegetables to the homes of millions of Americans. Alongside that artwork, we are sharing a series of poems from the farmworker community.  ..read more