Vagina Obscura Book Talk with author Rachel E. Gross

The Hoffman Lecture in Sociology and Social Policy: Vagina Obscura Book Talk with author Rachel E. Gross Monday, November 14  | 6PM EST Bush Memorial Auditorium, Troy campus In-Person Event and livestreamed via RSC YouTube channel A myth-busting voyage into the female body. A camera obscura reflects the world back, but dimmer and distorted. Similarly, science has long…

November Events at the Albany Institute

MARK YOUR CALENDARS November Events & Exhibitions Opening Soon:GORDON PARKS: I, TOO, AM AMERICANOVEMBER 12, 2022 – FEBRUARY 4, 2023 This exhibition of forty photographs is drawn from the exceptionally strong holdings of photographs by Gordon Parks (1912-2006) at the Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita State University. The Kansas native is a twentieth century…

Register Now! Virtual Program with Artist, Brandon Ndife & Artistic Director, Nora Lawrence.

PUBLIC PROGRAMS Virtual Special Exhibition Program: Brandon Ndife & Nora Lawrence Wednesday, November 2, 6PM via Zoom Join us for a virtual conversation featuring Storm King’s 2022 Outlooks artist, Brandon Ndife, and Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Nora Lawrence. Topics will include Ndife’s site-specific installation at Storm King, Shade Tree, along with larger themes in his sculpture practice.   EXHIBITIONS Final Weeks: 2022 Special…

Thank You, Chet & Karen Opalka!

THANK YOU to all of our collaborators over the last 20 years! We especially want to acknowledge our founding and sustaining supporters,Chet & Karen Opalka In case you missed it, please enjoy this tribute to the Opalkas, made in collaboration with Russell Sage College, YouthFX, and Opalka Gallery. We’re excited for the next 20 years!

History May Absolve the Soup Throwers

Written By Andreas Malm, Published by The New York Times Vincent van Gogh is not responsible for our climate breakdown. He was not the C.E.O. of an oil and gas company or a coal merchant. In fact, van Gogh started drawing and painting while living amid the smoke and cinder in a Belgian coal district. Besides “Sunflowers,”…

Announcing Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity, and Belonging

Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity, and Belonging  IBM Tech City, 101 Enterprise Drive, Kingston, NYNovember 5, 2022 – February 5, 2023 Join us for an opening night party on November 5, 2022, from 6:00 – 10:00 pm at IBM Tech City featuring music, food, and drink to celebrate the exhibition Parallel Lives: Photography, Identity, and Belonging!…

Only Two Weeks Left to Experience “The Obama Portraits Tour”

Only Two Weeks Left to Experience “The Obama Portraits Tour” Since September, we’ve had the pleasure of sharing Kehinde Wiley’s and Amy Sherald’s extraordinary portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama with thousands of Bostonians. Among them have been ninth graders and their teachers from all over the city, as part of our partnership with Boston…