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This Summer, Visit Rochester’s Underrated Museums Rochester is one of the country’s most underrated cities. The city (population about 206,000) is in western New York on Lake Ontario, one of the five Great Lakes. New York City is at least six hours away by car. The streets of downtown Rochester, N.Y. (Dennis Lennox) Rochester, like other Rust Belt cities, has seen its share of challenges in recent decades since the population peaked back in 1950. In some ways, this is a mixed blessing as downtown retains a fair share of old buildings—many on the National Register of Historic Places—t...

click to enlarge PHOTO PROVIDED Annalisa Barron. Her current art series is called “Place Projectors.'' Its first element is a projector, fashioned out of very Victorian-era-looking elements. If you found one in your grandparents’ attic, you might think they had been working on a time machine. And the second element is a place. A place which Barron studies closely, weaving pieces of it int...

2021 Smithsonian Visionary Award honors artists who work in wood Michael Hurwitz, Twelve Leaf Resin Table, 2012, Ash, wenge and epoxy resin, 16 x 40 x 40 in. WASHINGTON, DC .- The 2021 Smithsonian Visionary Award will be presented to two wood artists, David Ellsworth for his turned wood objects, and Michael Hurwitz for his wood furniture. Their selection was announced today, March 10, by Smithsonian Women’s Committee President Nancy Newkirk. Ellsworth and Hurwitz will receive their Award during the Smithsonian Craft Show Preview Night Benefit Wednesday, Oct. 27,at the National Building Museu...

a href= https://hindmanauctions.com/ target= _blank Hindman Auctions /a will present the Springborn Collection of Contemporary Craft sale on March

WXXI captures their journey and the unveiling in this hour-long documentary, Dialogue in Metal, airing Thursday, January 7 at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV. With unprecedented access to both artists, WXXI spent roughly a year chronicling the creative journeys of Paley and James as they worked to create these two different sculptures. Shot in 2017, the film crew traveled with Paley to James’ studio in Austin, Texas. There, James revealed the impetus behind this project, his long-time admiration of Paley’s work. After that meeting in Austin, the two artists returned to their studios to begin construc...