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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Memorial Art Gallery Reappoints Director for Five-Year Term
Rochester, NY, June 4, 2019—The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester is pleased to announce the reappointment of Mary W. and Donald R Clark Director Jonathan P. Binstock for another five-year term. Binstock became the seventh director of the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester in September 2014. Since then he…
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The 66th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition Features 76 Works by 62 Artists
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (ROC-FLX), a long-running showcase for artists from western and central New York, returns to the Memorial Art Gallery for its 66th installment from June 16 through September 15, 2019. This year’s showcase, which will feature the work of 62 artists, has been juried by Marilyn Zapf, the assistant director and curator…
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Memorial Art Gallery Presents World premiere of Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester is pleased to announce the exhibition Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass, featuring a 10-screen installation titled Lessons of the Hour by artist Isaac Julien. The work is inspired by episodes in the life of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), and the issues of social justice that shaped his…
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The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, St. John Fisher College and the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee Come Together to Honor Douglass
February 20, 2019 – For Immediate Release – Rochester, NY— The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG), the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee, and St. John Fisher College announced today a joint partnership to help honor the life and legacy of the visionary African American Frederick Douglass, whose 25 years in Rochester…
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The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, St. John Fisher College and the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee Come Together to Honor Douglass
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG), the Frederick Douglass Bicentennial Commemoration Committee, and St. John Fisher College announced today a joint partnership to help honor the life and legacy of the visionary African American Frederick Douglass, whose 25 years in Rochester resulted in some of the abolitionist and freed slave’s most…
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Memorial Art Gallery to Add SNAP Program to Current Community Outreach Initiatives
Rochester, NY, February 13, 2019— The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) is pleased to announce an addition to the Museum’s efforts to make exhibitions and programs accessible to a broad and diverse audience. This new initiative will offer free museum admission, for up to four people, with the presentation of a…
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The 66th Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition: Artists Invited to Submit January 18-March 1, 2019
The Rochester-Finger Lakes Exhibition (RFLX), a long-running showcase for artists from western and central New York, returns to the Memorial Art Gallery for its 66th installment during the summer of2019. The eagerly anticipated biannual juried exhibition was skipped the summer of 2017 to accommodate the expansion and renovation of MAG’s largest special exhibition space, the…
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Memorial Art Gallery Presents Modern Czech Photography: A Portfolio
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester is pleased to announce the presentation of Modern Czech Photography, a rare and powerful body of work by some of the most important mid-century Czech artists. Featuring such masters as Jaromír Funke and Josef Sudek, giants in the history of modernism, the portfolio holds special historic…
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Memorial Art Gallery Presents The Way Things Go
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) is pleased to announce Peter Fischli & David Weiss: The Way Things Go. The exhibition is on view at MAG from October 26, 2018 – March 17, 2019. This is the latest acquisition and exhibition in its three-year Media Arts Watch program. Jonathan Binstock, MAG’s…
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Memorial Art Gallery Presents No, No, New Museum
The Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester (MAG) is pleased to announce No, No, New Museum, an iconic video work by Bruce Nauman, one of the most influential artists to emerge since the late 1960s.On view in MAG’s Media Arts Watch gallery, No, No, New Museum is an endlessly looped video recording of…