Below is a selection of press releases about Memorial Art Gallery exhibitions and programs. Members of the media who would like additional information or publication-quality images should contact the public relations office.
We will gladly offer access to the museum to support press work related to MAG and its collections, please contact MAG’s Director of Marketing & Engagement to coordinate admission.
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Iconic Immersive Installation Coming to MAG
Globally celebrated artist, Yayoi Kusama, will be featured at the Memorial Art Gallery beginning in September. On loan from the Art Gallery of Ontario, one of her iconic immersive installations, […]
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Ribbon Cutting & Celebration Day for the Centennial Sculpture Park at MAG
MAG’s Centennial Sculpture Park (CSP) Ribbon Cutting and Celebration Day are almost here! Join the Memorial Art Gallery on June 4 at 11 am for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony to […]
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The 68th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Award Winners
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), a long-running showcase for artists from western and central New York, is at the Memorial Art Gallery for its 68th installment. On view now – […]
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Extending the Limits: Joan Lyons at MAG
Rochester has been a center for photography since George Eastman’s first Kodak camera was sold in 1888. In this fertile environment, artist Joan Lyons (born 1937), has challenged the authority […]
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The 68th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Artists Announced
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), The City’s oldest and longest-running juried exhibition for emerging and established artists from western and central New York, returns to the Memorial Art Gallery. The […]
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Sol LeWitt Artwork Brings Unique Experience to MAG
In late 2022, the Rochester community was invited to watch the installation of a major mural-scale drawing in the Memorial Art Gallery. Fifteen years after the death of artist Sol […]
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New Opportunities on the Horizon for the MAG and Binstock
The Memorial Art Gallery will begin the search for a new director this year. Jonathan P. Binstock, who became the seventh Mary W. and Donald R. Clark Director of the […]
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Traveling Exhibition of Stunning Bead-art from South Africa Tells a Luminous Story of Independence, Migration, and Memory
ROCHESTER, NY – The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester is pleased to announce Ubuhle Women: Beadwork and the Art of Independence. This spectacular exhibition showcases a new […]
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Memorial Art Gallery and River Campus Libraries to Present Collaborative Exhibition, Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster
The Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) and the River Campus Libraries (RCL) at the University of Rochester are pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and […]
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Memorial Art Gallery to Present Renaissance Impressions Exhibition and Programming
The Memorial Art Gallery (MAG) is pleased to announce its Winter/Holiday 2022 exhibition, Renaissance Impressions: Sixteenth-Century Master Prints from the Kirk Edward Long Collection, organized by The American Federation of […]