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.
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Memorial Art Gallery is first and only institution to acquire Bill Viola’s “Martyrs” series
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) is pleased to announce the latest acquisition and exhibition in its three-year Media Arts Watch program, the complete series of “Martyrs” by video artist Bill Viola. MAG is the only institution, public or private, in the U.S. to own this ambitious body of work, which…
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Memorial Art Gallery to Present Wendell Castle Remastered
Wendell Castle Remastered is the first museum exhibition to showcase the digitally crafted works of Wendell Castle, acclaimed figure of the American art furniture movement. A master furniture maker, designer, sculptor, and educator, Castle is now in the sixth decade of a prolific career that began in 1958—one that parallels the emergence and growth of…
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Memorial Art Gallery Presents Charles Atlas’ video work Here she is…v1
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) is pleased to announce Charles Atlas: Here she is…v1, the new exhibition in its “Media Arts Watch” program, which is curated by world-renowned authority on the moving image, John G. Hanhardt. In Here she is…v1, 2015, Atlas uses the medium of video to create a…
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Memorial Art Gallery Launches Reflections on Place & Culture: Downey, Gower, Kluge
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) continues the conversation on the art of the moving image through a new exhibition in its “Media Arts Watch” program, Reflections on Place & Culture: Downey, Gower, Kluge. “Media Arts Watch” is curated by world-renowned authority on the moving image, John G. Hanhardt, consulting senior…
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Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Cancelled for Summer 2017
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX) at the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) will be cancelled for 2017 to accommodate the expansion and renovation of the museum’s Grand Gallery. The renovations are made possible by the recently announced $3.5 million commitment from a generous private donor. The RFLX will return to MAG…
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Memorial Art Gallery and RoCo collaborate on major exhibition of Meleko Mokgosi’s Pax Kaffraria
The Memorial Art Gallery and Rochester Contemporary Art Center (RoCo) are collaborating to bring Rochester a unique multi-venue exhibition by internationally acclaimed artist Meleko Mokgosi. Meleko Mokgosi, a contemporary painter from Botswana now living in NYC, has received international attention for beautifully rendered, mural-sized canvases that explore southern African politics, history, culture, and the complexity…
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New MAG Exhibition Explores Iconic Works by M. C. Escher
A major exhibition of more than 100 works by iconic Dutch artist M. C. Escher opens November 13, 2016 at the Memorial Art Gallery. Drawn from the world’s second-largest private collection of Escher’s work, Reality and Illusion includes early figure drawings, lesser-known book illustrations, detailed Italian landscapes, the “tessellations” for which he became famous, and…
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Memorial Art Gallery Launches “Media Arts Watch” Led by Former Smithsonian Curator John G. Hanhardt
Experience Media Arts Watch at The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG). MAG has hired world-renowned authority on the moving image John G. Hanhardt, as consulting senior curator of media arts to launch the museum’s new Media Arts Watch initiative. The inaugural exhibition Bodies in Space is now on view. A special…
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Memorial Art Gallery Commissions Large-Scale Mural by WALL/THERAPY Artist Nate Hodge
Last year, as Memorial Art Gallery director Jonathan Binstock was driving along Atlantic Avenue, he passed an artist hard at work on a colorful large-scale mural. City and Sky is part of WALL\THERAPY, a city-wide public art project that is working to energize blank walls in downtown areas. Binstock was so impressed that he asked…
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Memorial Art Gallery Launches LIGHT SPILL: An Installation by Gibson + Recoder
Experience Media Arts Watch at The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG): Light Spill, an installation by artists Gibson + Recoder. Media Arts Watch is curated by world-renowned authority on the moving image, John G. Hanhardt, consulting senior curator of media arts for the MAG. Light Spill, the second of four planned…