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 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…