Saturday, October 6, 2007

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Real Places, Imagined Spaces
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring abstract paintings by Michael Berman, mixed media by Sandy Clift, photography by John Dowling, Finger Lakes photography by John Francis McCarthy, and metal sculptures by Michael Moberg.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Artist Demonstration
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Sandy Clift

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Presentation and demonstration by artist Sandy Clift about the process of creating her series "While I Was Sleeping."

After retiring from 31 years of teaching elementary school in Fulton, NY, Sandy Clift returned to the State University College at Oswego to pursue art and has been exhibiting nationally and regionally ever since. This exhibition features a series of art called "While I Was Sleeping." In these works, Clift combines technically detailed drawing with unique surfaces creating using tissue paper, packaging paper, matte medium, glue, pastels, Caran d'Ache, watercolors and acrylics. About the imaginative subject matter, Clift writes in her artist statement, "I had a collection of plastic animals when I was a child. I still have some of them, and it is still amusing to consider what they might be up to while I am busy."

Roberto Clemente
Redhouse

Price: $6 adults; $5 children under 16
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

This documentary is about popular Hispanic baseball player Roberto Clemente, as told by others. Over 60 interviews from former and current baseball players, elected officials like President Bill Clinton, sports figures, and many others, on what Clemente meant to them and to baseball fans, not only in the Latino community, but also in the entire American society.

A panel discussion with producers, directors, and baseball players will follow this one-hour film.

Stone Canoe Poetry Reading
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Duriel Harris, poet and sound artist

Price: Free
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Heralded as one of three Chicago poets for the 21st century by WBEZ Chicago Public Radio, Duriel E. Harris holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, an M.A. from the Graduate Creative Writing Program at NYU and a B.A. in Literature from Yale University. A member of reedist Douglas Ewart's experimental jazz choir, Inventions, Harris is a co-founder of The Black Took Collective and the Poetry Editor for Obsidian III: Literature in the African Diaspora.

Library Boogie
Open Hand Theater
Tom Knight

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive version of the children's classic.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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A Party to Murder
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Deborah Taylor, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the remaining players realize that they are playing for their lives. Tension rises. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments, bodies in the window seat and a 25-year-old unsolved mystery twist and turn toward the unexpected and terrifying conclusion.

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

Read a Review!

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

Read a Review!

Lucky Stiff
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based on the 1983 novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff was first performed Off-Broadway in 1988. Lucky Stiff is about Harry Witherspoon, a British shoe salesman who is offered an inheritance from his recently deceased, very wealthy uncle, under one condition -- he takes his uncle's dead body on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo. While in Monte Carlo, Harry comes in contact with a woman from a dog shelter who will take the inheritance herself if Harry does not meet the requirements of the will. If he doesn't pull through, all of the inheritance money goes to the Universal Dogs Home of Brooklyn, a fate that Harry will do anything to avoid, as he hates dogs. Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty.

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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Wit's End Players

Price: $25 adults; $20 seniors/students; $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Song, dance, humor, and wisdom highlight this spectacular family musical. With Syracuse's own Bob Brown in the title role, the life of that great entertainer, Will Rogers, unfolds on the Ziegfeld Follies stage. Between rope tricks to entertain the audience while the show girls are changing their costumes, Will soothes us with his old-fashioned common sense and introduces us to his family. The beautiful girls, in stunning costumes, return to entertain as Will takes us on a happy journey through some of America's most patriotic and nostalgic days.

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Michael and Elizabeth, Vivian and Pete
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

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Sunday, October 7, 2007

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Contemporary Film Series: Paris was a Woman
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

In the early decade of the 20th century, Paris was the undisputed artistic capital of the world. Cultural titans Gertrude Stein, Colette, Djuna Barnes, painter Marie Laurencin, publishers and booksellers Sylvia Beach and Adrienne Monnier, and New Yorker journalist Janet Flanner (not to mention Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso and James Joyce) were all part of the between-the-wars Left Bank inner circle. Utilizing groundbreaking research, newly-discovered home movies and intimate storytelling that intertwines interview with anecdote, this award-winning documentary re-creates the mood and flavor of a unique female artistc community who flocked to the City of Lights during its most magical era. This edition features rare home movies of Stein, Alice B. Toklas and Picasso. (Directed by Greta Schiller, 75 minutes, 1996)

Woodwind Overture
Arts Alive in Liverpool

Price: Free
Liverpool Public Library
310 Tulip St., Liverpool

Music for clarinets, horn and bassoon by Handel, C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven.

40th Anniversary Organ Recital
Park Central Presbyterian Church
Featuring Will Headlee, organ

Price: Free
Park Central Presbyterian Church
504 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The Robert Anthony Henninger Memorial Organ will be 40 years old this season.

The program, which Professor Headlee is preparing to record, will include the Three Preludes and Fugues, Op. 7 by Marcel Dupré, J. S. Bach's Partita on Sei gegrüsset, Jesu gütug, the Introduction and Passacaglia in D minor by Max Reger and Carillon-Sortie by Henri Mulet.

For more information, visit www.parkcentralchurch.org

TK99 Sound Check
Redhouse

Price: $5
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Michael and Elizabeth, Vivian and Pete
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

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Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Lucky Stiff
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based on the 1983 novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff was first performed Off-Broadway in 1988. Lucky Stiff is about Harry Witherspoon, a British shoe salesman who is offered an inheritance from his recently deceased, very wealthy uncle, under one condition -- he takes his uncle's dead body on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo. While in Monte Carlo, Harry comes in contact with a woman from a dog shelter who will take the inheritance herself if Harry does not meet the requirements of the will. If he doesn't pull through, all of the inheritance money goes to the Universal Dogs Home of Brooklyn, a fate that Harry will do anything to avoid, as he hates dogs. Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty.

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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Wit's End Players

Price: $25 adults; $20 seniors/students; $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Song, dance, humor, and wisdom highlight this spectacular family musical. With Syracuse's own Bob Brown in the title role, the life of that great entertainer, Will Rogers, unfolds on the Ziegfeld Follies stage. Between rope tricks to entertain the audience while the show girls are changing their costumes, Will soothes us with his old-fashioned common sense and introduces us to his family. The beautiful girls, in stunning costumes, return to entertain as Will takes us on a happy journey through some of America's most patriotic and nostalgic days.

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The Phantom of the Opera
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $17.50 - $72.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

With some of the most lavish sets, costumes and special effects ever to have been created for the stage, Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera directed by Harold Prince traces the tragic love story of a beautiful opera singer and a young composer shamed by his physical appearance into a shadowy existence beneath the majestic Paris Opera House. Adapted from Gaston Leroux's classic novel of mystery and suspense, this award-winning musical has woven its magical spell over standing room audiences in more than 100 cities worldwide and is now the longest running show in Broadway history.

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Monday, October 8, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Rebecca
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Director Alfred Hitchcock's moody 1940 masterpiece with Joan Fontaine, Laurence Olivier and Judith Anderson earned an Academy Award for Best Picture.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The View from Bordeaux: Looking Back on Goya's Life
Syracuse University Art Museum
Featuring Dr. Janis Tomlinson

Price: Free
Gifford Auditorium, Huntington Beard Crouse Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Dr. Janis Tomlinson is Director of the University of Delaware Museums and a noted Goya scholar who has written extensively on his life and art, including a monograph entitled Francisco Goya y Lucientes and has also curated numerous exhibitions about his work, most recently the National Gallery of Art's "Goya: Images of Women." She has participated in museum round-table conversations on the importance of Goya's art, such as the Guggenheim's panel discussion on "Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth and History" that was held this past February in NYC. Dr. Tomlinson has given many lectures on Goya's career that have been very well received by art historians including her talk: "Goya's Romanticism," which was presented at the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.

A reception at the SUArt Galleries will immediately follow her presentation.

Doing Well and Doing Good
University Lectures
Featuring Judy Wicks and Alice Waters, activist entrepreneurs

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Judy Wicks is owner and founder of Philadelphia's 24-year-old White Dog Cafe, and is a national leader in the local living economies movement. She is co-founder and co-chair of the national Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE), and founder of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (SBN). She is also president of the White Dog Cafe Foundation, dedicated to building a local living economy in the Philadelphia region.

With a four-part mission of serving customers, community, employees, and the natural environment, the White Dog Cafe has created numerous educational and community-building programs which focus on topics such as economic & social justice, environmental protection, peace and non-violence, drug policy reform and community arts. Through "Table for Six Billion, Please!" the international "sister restaurant" project Judy began in 1984, she has organized trips to Nicaragua, Cuba, Mexico, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Vietnam, and Israel/Palestine in order to understand the effects of US policy. A local sister restaurant program promotes minority-owned restaurants in Philadelphia and Camden. In 1992, Judy began the White Dog mentoring program, which introduces inner-city high school students to the restaurant business. Her adjacent gift store, the Black Cat founded in 1989, features local and fair trade crafts. White Dog Enterprises employs over 100 people and grosses approximately $5 million annually, demonstrating the concept of "doing well by doing good."

Judy was co-founder of the Free People's Store, now called Urban Outfitters, in 1970, and general manager and co-proprietor of Restaurant LaTerrasse from 1974 to 1984.

She was also co-founder and President of Synapse, Inc. a non-profit publishing company, and editor and art director of its publications, the Whole City Catalog in 1972 and 74, and the Philadelphia Resource Guide in 1982.

Alice Waters opened Chez Panisse in 1971, serving a single fixed-price menu that changes daily. The set menu format remains at the heart of Alice's philosophy of serving only the highest quality products, only when they are in season. Over the course of three decades, Chez Panisse has developed a network of mostly local farmers and ranchers whose dedication to sustainable agriculture assures Chez Panisse a steady supply of pure and fresh ingredients.

Alice is a strong advocate for farmer's markets and for sound and sustainable agriculture. In 1996, in celebration of the restaurant's 25th anniversary, she created the Chez Panisse Foundation to help underwrite cultural and educational programs such as the one at the Edible Schoolyard that demonstrate the transformative power of growing, cooking, and sharing food.

Among Alices many board affiliations, she is the Founder and Director of the Chez Panisse Foundation, an International Governor of Slow Food, a Visiting Dean at the French Culinary Institute, an Honorary Trustee of the American Center for Food, Wine, and the Arts in Napa, and Board Member of the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.

Alice is author and co-author of eight books, including Chez Panisse Vegetables, Chez Panisse Café Cookbook, Fanny at Chez Panisse, a storybook and cookbook for children, and most recently, the encyclopedic Chez Panisse Fruit. Chez Panisse restaurant was named Best Restaurant in America by Gourmet magazine in 2001. Alice has received numerous awards, including the Bon Appetit magazines Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000 and the James Beard Humanitarian Award in 1997. She was named Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation in 1992 and Cuisine et Vins de France listed her as one of the 10 best chefs in the world in 1986.

This event is sponsored in cooperation with the Syracuse Symposium.

Latin Jazz Workshop
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Siora Contemporary World Jazz

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Siora will demonstrate Latin rhythms and techniques in Latin jazz. The workshop is interactive, involving teaching audience volunteers on various instruments.

Siora Contemporary World Jazz
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Siora takes you on a world jazz journey of the soul, touching down in Rio, Paris, Mazer-e-Sharif and points beyond. Singing in seven languages, the voice of Phyllis Chapell soars above the keyboard artistry of composer Dan Kleiman. Afro-Brazilian and Middle Eastern rhythms underscore an array of wind instruments adding exotic flavor to this international odyssey. SIORA erases geographic boundaries creating a new musical landscape that needs no translation.

United States Marine Band
City of Syracuse

Price: Free
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Tickets recommended; admittance without tickets starting at 7:15 PM on a first come, first served basis.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

The Spirit in Architecture: John Lautner
Syracuse University School of Architecture

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This film is designed for everyone interested in human creativity and the innovative process of creating architecture. It examines the life and work of the contemporary American architect John Lautner, part of a century long chain of American individualists and one of the most visionary architects of the 20th Century. His work represents an aspect of organic design, the legacy of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the contributions of Southern California architecture that expands our understanding of the nature of modernism. Through the use of a steady cam, director Bette Jane Cohen uniquely captures the complex, flowing spaces of Lautner's architecture.

Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Nicholas Hrynyk, piano

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Beethoven Pastoral Sonata, MacDowell Polonaise, Chopin F minor Ballade, others

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Lucky Stiff
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based on the 1983 novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff was first performed Off-Broadway in 1988. Lucky Stiff is about Harry Witherspoon, a British shoe salesman who is offered an inheritance from his recently deceased, very wealthy uncle, under one condition -- he takes his uncle's dead body on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo. While in Monte Carlo, Harry comes in contact with a woman from a dog shelter who will take the inheritance herself if Harry does not meet the requirements of the will. If he doesn't pull through, all of the inheritance money goes to the Universal Dogs Home of Brooklyn, a fate that Harry will do anything to avoid, as he hates dogs. Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty.

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Thursday, October 11, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Alterity
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

A group show of art drawn from alternative art movements. The 20 works included in the exhibition represent a range of so-called "outsider" art made by those who do not work within the sphere of the traditional art world: prisoners, people with various compulsive agendas (the evils of taxes, for instance), and individuals with such significant disabilities as schizophrenia and autism. Dan Miller, currently featured at White Columns Gallery in New York, and one of whose drawings was recently purchased by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, is one of the artists whose art those who visit the exhibition will be able to enjoy; he is represented by several works in ThINC's exhibition. Also on view are drawings and objects produced by prisoners and former prison inmates who participated in programs at the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. In addition, there are three sculptures by Edward Nagrodzki, a self-appointed 'tax rebel'. The sculptures are representative of the wide array of creative forms he used to protest the imposition of taxes.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

Cosmology: Works by Alan Singer
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Alan Singer utilizes traditional painting and drawing techniques combined with high-tech digital tools and printmaking techniques to create his abstract environments. William Zimmer, New York Times' art critic, commented that "Singer's art has the refreshing jauntiness found in the pioneering American abstractionists."

Alan Singer says: "My subjects are derived from visual and physical phenomena related to space (in the geometric sense), and our human interactions with nature. I think about how our environment interweaves things we can see and things which we can only feel, like the wind. I am very conscious of the elements in our natural world and the forces that are exerted on us, and how we adapt. I try to open my art to representations of physical and social forces that may draw upon literary, scientific or mathematical resources. Patterns in my painting find correlations to the textures and rhythms of music, dance, textile arts and more."

How Does Art Create Value, Who For & Why: Outside Art, Inside Theory
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

It's something of a truism to say that Art as we know it is dominated by galleries, museums and the artists and professionals that play party to these institutions.

But art with an 'A' has a twin, relegated and kept intentionally in the shadows. This twin's name is Outsider art. Art made by people who don't 'know art', lack formal training, renege participation in galleries, yet intriguingly presents the same challenges for the viewer as art offered by more 'sophisticated' artists. Outsider art creates the true dilemma of Art. If there is a form of art making that is labeled 'outside', what is 'inside', and why does the outside matter?

Value appears in many forms through art. Value may be most readily associated with art when expressed through capital; it is at least the easiest form of value used to explain art. The more 'abstract' the value becomes, the more personally located it is assumed to be. For instance, Rothko's great Seagram paintings are to many, the most intimate experience they have had with art. How can art's value be practical without being located within capital value? What other forms of value are available to us through art? Further - do the forms of value art takes denote who this value is created for, and even why? Or is art able to supercede this type of reductive ontology - is it autonomous?

These and many other questions will be pursued at ThINC's fourth pillow talk. Bring yourself, your friends, your drinks and don't forget your pillow!

Judgment of Nuremberg in Today's World
University Lectures
Featuring Henry T. King, Jr., Nuremburg prosecuter

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Henry T. King, Jr. in conversation with College of Law Professor David Crane, moderated by Greg Peterson, Chairman of the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, NY.

This event is sponsored in cooperation with the Syracuse Symposium, the College of Law, and Hillel.

Nation Beat
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Composed of six musicians, Nation Beat melds Afro-Brazilian rhythms of Maracatu with New Orleans funk and jazz, and makes "21st-century music for one nation under a groove." The name Nation Beat is derived from the Portuguese words nação (nation) and baque (beat). All traditional Maracatu groups from Recife, Brazil, are considered a "nação"in reference to the African nations from which they come. The name of the Maracatu group always starts with Nação and ends with the name of the group. The traditional style of Maracatu that Nation Beat plays is called Maracatu de Baque Virado (Maracatu of the Flipping Beat). Hence, the group is titled with the name Nation Beat. Nation Beat effortlessly swings from gritty "'Nawlins funk" to jazzed-up new songs to traditional tunes, all set to the sound of a Brazilian bateria (drum). The group transcends musical and literal bordersit is the first American group to record in Brazil with legendary Maracatu group Naçao Estrela Brilhante (Brilliant Star), led by Mestre Walter and rhythm master Jorge Martins.

The SU Brazilian Ensemble and the Nottingham High School World Drumming Ensemble will also perform.

Discounted public parking is available in the Irving Garage. Patrons should alert the attendant that they are attending the Nation Beat concert.

Steve Reich with Real Quiet
LeMoyne College

Price: $15 regular, $10 students/seniors, Le Moyne Community free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

One of the 20th century's most important composers, Steve Reich visits Le Moyne College for a performance of his music by artist-in-residence Andrew Russo, his trio Real Quiet, pianist Robert Auler, and percussionist Robert Bridge.

Reich will be interviewed by his friend and Syracuse resident, composer Marc Mellits.

Works to be performed include Reich's Cello Counterpoint for cello and tape, Piano/Video Phase for electronic drum pads with video projection, and Sextet.

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Death Joins the Club
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive dinner theater murder mystery.

A Party to Murder
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Deborah Taylor, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the remaining players realize that they are playing for their lives. Tension rises. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments, bodies in the window seat and a 25-year-old unsolved mystery twist and turn toward the unexpected and terrifying conclusion.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Lucky Stiff
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based on the 1983 novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff was first performed Off-Broadway in 1988. Lucky Stiff is about Harry Witherspoon, a British shoe salesman who is offered an inheritance from his recently deceased, very wealthy uncle, under one condition -- he takes his uncle's dead body on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo. While in Monte Carlo, Harry comes in contact with a woman from a dog shelter who will take the inheritance herself if Harry does not meet the requirements of the will. If he doesn't pull through, all of the inheritance money goes to the Universal Dogs Home of Brooklyn, a fate that Harry will do anything to avoid, as he hates dogs. Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty.

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Friday, October 12, 2007

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Donalee Peden-Wesley
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Ann Felton Multicultural Center and Gallery
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Large scale charcoal drawings with watercolor washes that address issues and relationships between humans and animals.

Annual Exhibition
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

Price: Free
Syracuse Technology Garden
235 Harrison St., Syracuse

The exhibition features abstract artwork from 16 New York State artists. Artists exhibiting: Anatoli Truskalo, Linda Bigness, Bob Gates, Amber Blanding, Hunter O'Reilly, Stan Bowman, Lynne Taetzsch, Paul McMillan, Cheyne Rood, Fred Wellner, Laura Wellner, Barbara Page, Barbara Mink, Len Fishman, Melissa Tiffany and Al D'Agostino. The show holds a number of different and unique mediums including paintings, sculptures, glass work, photographs, collage, drawings, and giclee prints on canvas.

The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

In commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, a selection of period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee together with a plethora of books associated with the trial that have been published in the intervening years by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woodie Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair. The story of the Sacco and Vanzetti mural by Ben Shahn on the east wall of H. B. Crouse will also be explored.

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

The Lost Photos of Vietnam: Works of Al Fasoldt
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

During the Vietnam War, Al Fasoldt was a photographer for Stars & Stripes. When he left Vietnam to come home, he left his negatives behind and brought a few 8"x10" prints and contact sheets of his work. Since then, the Pentagon has ordered all negatives of Stars & Stripes photographers be destroyed. Over the past few years, Fasoldt has been working to repair the prints and contact sheets he brought home years ago, using them to make prints of his Vietnam War images for exhibition.

One Week's Dead: Works of Binh Danh
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Vietnamese-American photographer Binh Danh has quietly gained recognition on the international art scene for his Vietnam War-inspired work. This exhibition features his most recognizable work, comprising appropriated war images that are printed directly onto leaves or grass, a process Danh invented while in college. On his first trip to Vietnam since his family immigrated to the United States, Danh was confronted by the remains of the war, such as bomb craters that had been converted into rice paddies, and he observed that memories of the war's devastation had become part of daily life. It was this experience that inspired him to create chlorophyll prints of found images from the Vietnam War with tropical leaves, sharing, in his words, the "epiphany that the memory of those people and events will reverberate forever through the country's landscape."

Of his work, Danh states, "Much of my research has explored my own personal history and has become a way of visually and physically recollecting my family's history and honoring their collective memory." These concepts are very real with regard to any culture that has immigrated to the United States, looking at the stories families tell and the disconnected feeling experienced by the second generation.

Danh was born in Vietnam in 1977. He received a BFA degree from San Jose State University and an MFA degree from Stanford University. His work has been exhibited in museums and galleries internationally, including the George Eastman House in Rochester, the Asia Society Museum in New York City, the University of Hawaii Art Museum, and the Haines Gallery in San Francisco. He lives and works in San Jose, CA. He participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence program in 2006.

2007 Light Work Grants Exhibit: Works by Brantley Carroll, Ella Gant, and David Moore
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Alterity
ThINC

Price: Free
Company Gallery
110 W. Fayette St. (corner of Clinton), Syracuse

A group show of art drawn from alternative art movements. The 20 works included in the exhibition represent a range of so-called "outsider" art made by those who do not work within the sphere of the traditional art world: prisoners, people with various compulsive agendas (the evils of taxes, for instance), and individuals with such significant disabilities as schizophrenia and autism. Dan Miller, currently featured at White Columns Gallery in New York, and one of whose drawings was recently purchased by The Museum of Modern Art in New York, is one of the artists whose art those who visit the exhibition will be able to enjoy; he is represented by several works in ThINC's exhibition. Also on view are drawings and objects produced by prisoners and former prison inmates who participated in programs at the Center for Community Alternatives in Syracuse. In addition, there are three sculptures by Edward Nagrodzki, a self-appointed 'tax rebel'. The sculptures are representative of the wide array of creative forms he used to protest the imposition of taxes.

Roger Beebe: New Maps of the New World
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Filmmaker in attendance!

Roger Beebe: "[Beebe's films] implicitly and explicitly evoke the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, all photographers of the atomic age whose Western photographs captured the banalities, cruelties and beauties of imperial America."
--David Fellerath, The Independent Weekly

"Beebe's work is goofy, startling, and important."
--Daniel Kraus, Wilmington Encore

Screening presented with the support of Syracuse Experimental (Film & Media Workshop)

Musician Bill Cole and Bassist Shayna Dulberger
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Bill Cole is a professor in the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts and Sciences with teaching and research interests in ethnomusicology, music of the African Diaspora and performance music. The concert, which coincides with Cole's 70th birthday, will expose the audience to instruments that come from the non-Western world.

"These instruments, which are not tempered, will be combined with the acoustic bass to demonstrate how these very different combinations can be used to create beautiful music," Cole says. "The key to this combination is that all of the instruments will be non-tempered."

Cole, a musician, composer, educator and writer, is the leader and artistic director of the Untempered Ensemble and Shadrack Inc. His use of traditional instruments from a variety of cultures has enabled him to research both their style and meaning within the culture. These instruments include the Asian double-reed horns like the Chinese sonas, Korean hojok and piri, Indian shenai and nagaswarm, Ghanaian bamboo flute, Tibetan trumpet and Australian didgeridoo.

His performances have included such venues as Town Hall and Symphony Space in New York, Broadway Performance Hall in Seattle and Hopkins Center in Hanover, N.H. Cole has served as jazz critic for top music publications and has authored works on John Coltrane and Miles Davis.

Dulberger, who played the piano and guitar as a child, took up the upright bass in high school. She studied classical and jazz music at the Manhattan School of Music and bass at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University, earning a performance degree in jazz upright bass. She created a series dedicated to improvised and avant garde music at the Spoken Words Venue in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in addition to playing the bass. Dulberger performs in New York City and has appeared on seven recordings, notably "Transcendence" by Ras Moshe and her own recording, "TheKillMeTrio."

After Derrida, There Are No Corners
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring Peter Eisenman

Price: Free
The Warehouse, Main Auditorium
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Peter Eisenman is an internationally recognized architect and educator. As principal of Eisenman Architects he has designed large-scale housing and urban design projects, innovative facilities for educational institutions, and a series of inventive private houses. He has taught at Cambridge, Harvard, Princeton, Ohio State, and The Cooper Union. He founded the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City. A reception will follow the lecture.

Dialogue with Steve Reich
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Called "our greatest living composer", Steve Reich's path has embraced not only aspects of Western Classical music, but the structures, harmonies, and rhythms of non-Western and American vernacular music, particularly jazz. Presented in cooperation with LeMoyne College and SUNY Oswego.

Sharing American Song
Syracuse Children's Chorus
Barbara Marble Tagg, conductor

Price: Adults: $18, $14; students: $16, $12
Most Holy Rosary Church
111 Roberts Ave., Syracuse

The Syracuse Children's Chorus welcomes the Dr. Weeks Elementary School Chorus and celebrates the rich history of American choral music. Enjoy the diverse repertoire of our wonderful country with selections from Copland, Bernstein, Ives, Berlin, and more.

Pops Series: Dear Mr. Sinatra
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Jason Robert Brown, conductor
Featuring John Pizzarelli, guitar and vocals

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

He was The Voice... Ol' Blue Eyes...The Chairman of the Board...the man who put Hoboken, NJ on the musical map. There will never be another Frank Sinatra, but fellow Hoboken native, jazzman John Pizzarelli helps the SSO open the M&T Bank Pops series with a musical fan letter to the legendary crooner.

Poet Naomi Guttman
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Naomi Guttman's first book, Reasons for Winter (Brick Books, 1991), won the A.M. Klein Award for Poetry. She has received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, the Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her second book, Wet Apples, White Blood, was recently published by McGill-Queen's University Press.

Manchild
Joseph Edwards, director

Danforth Middle School
309 W. Brighton Ave., Syracuse

An adaptation by actor/writer Joseph Edwards of Claude Brown's 1965 memoir Manchild about his coming of age in Harlem. Edwards is a Syracuse native and SU graduate.

A Party to Murder
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Deborah Taylor, director

First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Six people have come in secret on Halloween to play a murder mystery game at a rustic island cottage. Invited by writer Charles Prince, they appear set for a weekend of fun until ghosts from the past begin to haunt the proceedings and it becomes clear that all is not as it seems. The game takes on a sinister dimension when guests begin to die and the remaining players realize that they are playing for their lives. Tension rises. Secret passageways, incriminating letters, hidden compartments, bodies in the window seat and a 25-year-old unsolved mystery twist and turn toward the unexpected and terrifying conclusion.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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Lucky Stiff
Syracuse University Drama Department
Nathan Hurwitz, director

Price: $18 regular, $16 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Based on the 1983 novel The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo by Michael Butterworth, Lucky Stiff was first performed Off-Broadway in 1988. Lucky Stiff is about Harry Witherspoon, a British shoe salesman who is offered an inheritance from his recently deceased, very wealthy uncle, under one condition -- he takes his uncle's dead body on a week-long vacation to Monte Carlo. While in Monte Carlo, Harry comes in contact with a woman from a dog shelter who will take the inheritance herself if Harry does not meet the requirements of the will. If he doesn't pull through, all of the inheritance money goes to the Universal Dogs Home of Brooklyn, a fate that Harry will do anything to avoid, as he hates dogs. Book and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, music by Stephen Flaherty.

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The Will Rogers Follies: A Life In Revue
Wit's End Players

Price: $25 adults; $20 seniors/students; $14 children
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

Song, dance, humor, and wisdom highlight this spectacular family musical. With Syracuse's own Bob Brown in the title role, the life of that great entertainer, Will Rogers, unfolds on the Ziegfeld Follies stage. Between rope tricks to entertain the audience while the show girls are changing their costumes, Will soothes us with his old-fashioned common sense and introduces us to his family. The beautiful girls, in stunning costumes, return to entertain as Will takes us on a happy journey through some of America's most patriotic and nostalgic days.

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Michael and Elizabeth, Vivian and Pete
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20, $15
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

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Saturday, October 13, 2007

Small Human Detail: Photographs by Philip MacCabe and Poems by Martin Walls
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Annual Members' Exhibition
Associated Artists of Central New York

Price: Free
Manlius Village Library
Manlius Village Center, 1 Arkie Albanese Dr., Manlius

Thea Reidy, artist, designer and educator is jurying the show.

Maximum Color
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring glass by Phil Austin, paintings by Alison Fisher, landscapes and abstractions by Jim Loveless, non-representational paintings by Lutz Scherneck, and creative photography by Linda Spatuzzi.

On My Own Time
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Since 1974, the Cultural Resources Council, in cooperation with the Everson, has presented On My Own Time. A celebration of artwork created by employees of local businesses on their own time, the exhibition is meant to promote creativity and artistic endeavors by those who are not full-time artists.

Under One Roof Reprise
Everson Museum of Art

Price: Suggested donation, $5, adults
Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Juxtapose artwork created by artists whose common thread is a shared studio/classroom space and expect the unexpected. This happened in 2004, when a group of women who work and teach at Syracuse University's ComArt building joined together for an exhibition entitled Under One Roof at SOHO20 Gallery in Chelsea, NY. This was the first time the artists - three generations of students/teachers - had shown together, yet their work spoke of seamless connections and closer ties than one might assume.

Nine artists have reunited for the current exhibition Under One Roof Reprise. Their situations have changed slightly but their work once again has come together in surprising and interesting ways. Abby Goodman and Kim Carr Valdez earned their MFA degrees and moved to Brooklyn, while Laura Ledbetter now lives in Philadelphia. Anne Beffel, Ann Clarke, Mary Giehl, Gail Hoffman, and Jude Lewis continue to teach in the College of Visual and Performing Arts at Syracuse University, while Claire Harootunian, although officially retired, continues to teach, travel, and explore the art of found objects.

The artists' processes are diverse, including large-scale installations, found object collaboration, casting, kinetics, video, and hand-tooled objects. Emphasis is placed on the creative use of materials such as fibers, metals, wood, plastics, resin, and everyday products. Each artist translates and illuminates human experience through her unique visual language and conceptual sensibility. These artists address common themes such as play, gender, identity, time, place, and most of all, memories. Mary Giehl's Ivory combines happy childhood memories of bathing with her siblings - recalling the "toys, the fun, the soap floating and the smell of Ivory" - with "those of sad and heartbreaking stories" not uncommon in today's headlines.

Gail Hoffman, a sculptor immersed in the concept of time, presents "visual metaphorical narratives, freeze-framed in a state of suspended animation" through a variety of media including bronze, plastic toys, and other found objects. Plasco Ranch (Possible Outcomes) is a minature assemblage designed in the small scale to "invite the viewer to psychologically inhabit the space." A collection of disparate objects including a bronze sheep, Santa Claus, and military vehicles has been arranged to suggest a story that is left to the viewer's imagination. A journal placed nearby offers visitors the opportunity to record their stories and suggest possible outcomes for the scene as they see it unfold. Based on viewers' comments, Hoffman will return periodically to rearrange, add, or remove objects, providing photographic documentation of the ever changing Plasco Ranch as part of the exhibit.

This group exhibition is presented in conjunction with the Syracuse University College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Species Unknown
Syracuse University School of Art and Design

Price: Free
The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Species Unknown, mixed media work by Diane Worth Doty, is a personal creation of false science using simple or modest materials such as needle and thread, cotton cloth, paper, coffee, tea, hair, and a manual typewriter. The artist explores the quiet rhythm of stitching with her interest in ornithology, combining women's craft through creative writing and choice of theoretical and scientific depiction of migratory patterns of birds and humans as the driving force.

A Faith Ringgold Retrospective: Story Quilts and Children's Books
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Suggested donation $5
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

An icon of American art and activism, Ringgold was born in Harlem, New York. From a young age, she was encouraged in her creative endeavors by her mother, Willi Posey Jones, who was a fashion designer and seamstress. Ringgold received her Bachelor's degree in Fine Art and Education and her Master's degree in Art at City College of New York. From 1955-1973, she taught art in the New York City public schools. In the mid-to late 1960s, Ringgold began portraying political and Civil Rights themes in her paintings. She abandoned traditional painting in the early 1970's, and began creating large unstretched paintings with elaborate fabric borders, similar to Tibetan tankas. She also began making fabric dolls, masks and soft sculptures, some of which were used in performance pieces. In the early 1980s, she began creating large story quilts, featuring painted images along with handwritten text. She adapted her story quilt Tar Beach into a children's book in 1990, and has since written and illustrated several children's books, and has also published her memoirs.

From 1984 to 2002, Ringgold was a Professor of Art at University of California San Diego. She has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions since the 1960s. She has received many honors and awards for her achievements, including the National Endowment for the Arts awards in sculpture and painting, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and more than 15 honorary doctorates.

Exploring History with Art -- Onondaga County on the Move: 200 Years of Transportation
Onondaga Historical Association

Onondaga Historical Association
321 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The exhibition will feature artwork from the OHA collection that depicts various modes of local transportation and how artists interpreted it over the last two centuries. Local teachers and students will find subjects meeting their document-based questions social studies standards within the exhibit.

Water and Light: The Etchings and Drypoints of James MacNeill Whistler
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Water and Light is a focused examination of two of James MacNeill Whistler's favorite subjects. The American expatriate was fascinated with water and the effects of light. A highlight of his career as a printmaker were his famous Venetian "nocturnes" that so effectively captured the mood and atmosphere of Italy's famous floating city.

The strength of these images is Whistler's unique talent at blending the reflections of the water in the canals with the natural light that suffused the city. Later in his career he journeyed to Amsterdam where he again combined water and light into images that captured that city's particular flavor.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 (VIP) lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Icarus and Stravinsky: Color Prints by Swietlan Nicholas Kraczyna
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Swietlin Nicholas Kraczyna is a Polish-born, American-raised artist who lives in Florence, Italy in the former studio of the Renaissance master painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. He teaches printmaking at Syracuse University's Florence campus and is spending the fall semester in Syracuse as a visiting artist. This exhibit presents a selection of Kraczyna's color etchings on two of the artist's favorite subjects: the myth of Icarus and Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring.

Kraczyna binds these two different subjects together through their interest in pushing the limits of convention. Icarus was able to fly as a result of wings constructed by his father. The Rite of Spring was Igor Stravinsky's ground breaking and controversial ballet score that premiered in Paris in 1913. Many experts think modern orchestral music began with the score's dissonant, unpredictable composition.

The images of Icarus often present the winged boy in unconventional settings. One of the more recent etchings, Icarus Flying out the Window, 2002, portrays him flying out of a contemporary building's upper floor window. Kraczyna's technical dexterity and a vivid palette are on clear display in this multi-plate etching. In The Rite of Spring prints the artist places Stravinsky's handwritten musical notes and markings from the score in the image. They act as a foundation upon which are added the figures of the ballet dancers. The notes become either costume decorations or independent decorative patterns in the spaces between the figures.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Goya: The Disasters of War
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

For the first time ever in central New York, the SUArt Galleries will be presenting a complete, First Edition of Francisco de Goya's monumental graphic statement, The Disasters of War. Considered by many to be unrivaled in its graphic depiction of cruelty, terror, and the inhumanity of man toward his fellow man, the Disasters were not printed in their entirety during the artist's lifetime. Originally conceived and partially executed during the Peninsula War of 1808-1814 and the immediate post-war years, Goya dared not publish the series during his lifetime. The immediacy of the images, the bluntness of his approach to depicting the violence of war, and the fact that the post-war Spanish regime decreed that the War was to be forgotten made publication of the series impossible until 35 years after Goya's death.

Set against a backdrop of war, political turmoil, dictatorship, military occupation, and a growing sense of nationalism, the Disasters may be both the beginning and highlight of modern graphics. When the "fatal consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte and other emphatic caprices" (as it had been described by Goya and his son Javier) was published in 1863 by the Royal Academy of San Fernando, it revolutionized the role of the artist as journalist and an observer of war. Goya, to a large extent, recorded what he saw and purposefully maintained the independence of the observed facts as distinct from his personal reactions to the cruelty, injustice, or whatever emotion the horror he witnessed might have engendered, in order to give greater clarity to the facts.

This series of prints has transcended the specific references to a Napoleonic era war that was borne of imperialist aspirations and has become synonymous with the gross brutality of war and its impact on the innocents of every conflict. In fact, it is not uncommon to hear contemporary war photographers pay homage to Goya and his brilliant concepts that abound in The Disasters of War.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Eyes on the World: Photographs from the Alexia Foundation for World Peace and Cultural Understanding
Syracuse University Art Museum

Price: Free
Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This exhibition features work by 18 photojournalists, three of whom -- Wesley Law, Ezra Shaw, and Justin Yurkanin -- are SU graduates. The subjects are diverse, ranging from the current conflicts in Africa to the legacy of Chernobyl. American topics focus on the Confederate flag controversy, life on the Navajo reservation and the 1997 reunion of people associated with The Farm, the Tennessee community that was America's largest hippie commune.

The Alexia Foundation was begun by the parents of Alexia Tsairis, a Newhouse School of Public Communications undergraduate student who was killed in the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. Each year the foundation gives grants to selected student and professional photographers so they can pursue their interests in photojournalism. To date, the foundation has awarded over $500,000 in grants to 80 undergraduate photographers and 11 professionals.

Weekend and evening Galleries visitors can park in the Q4 lot on College Place. Notify the attendant that you are visiting the Galleries and you will be directed where to park. Parking is on a space available basis and may be restricted during events held at the Carrier Dome. If spaces aren't available the attendant will direct you to the nearest lot.

Visual Arts Showcase #61, Tribal
CNY Arts

The Warehouse Link Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A juried exhibit in which a dozen regional artists have individually interpreted the concept of "Tribal."

COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring works of Jo-Anne Balcaen, Juliet Jacobson, Rachel Rampleman

Price: Free
The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

This bold new exhibition, COME ON: Desire Under The Female Gaze, focuses on the psychological, social, cultural and political dimensions of desire, subjectivity and -- pleasure.

COME ON presents an array of ideas, imagery and experiences on the topic of sexuality from the perspective of women in their 20s through mid 30s. The artists in this exhibition employ diverse media, including large-scale drawing, video installation, text work and ephemeral sculpture. COME ON reveals what is not represented in popular culture and provides a counterbalance to the ubiquitous imagery of sexualized female bodies created for mainstream heterosexual male sensibilities.

2nd Annual Patricia DeAngelis Youth Piano Festival
LeMoyne College

Price: Free
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The event features performances by High School and Junior High School pianists. Awards will be announced at 6:30 pm. Please join us for a joyful day of piano music and camaraderie!

Family Series: Koshka's Tales: Stories from Russia
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Russia's most beloved fables are spun together with tone poems of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. You'll hear the enchanting stories of The Snow Maiden, Sadko the Minstrel and Baba-Yaga Bony-Legs interwoven with Rimsky-Korsakov's vivid orchestral scores, including the famous Flight of the Bumble Bee.

De Angelis Youth Piano Festival
LeMoyne College

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

The closing concert of the this day-long event will feature the prizewinners of the 2nd annual Patricia De Angelis Youth Piano Festival as well as guest artist William-John Newbrough.

Folkus Project
Featuring William Nicholson

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Chris Trapper
Redhouse

Price: $12
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Boston based, pop-rock frontman, Chris Trapper of The Push Starts will once again rock the Redhouse. He has been honored with numerous Boston Music Awards and a Platinum Record for his songs on the Great Big Sea release ŒSea of No Cares. Chris is a founding member and the lead singer for nationally acclaimed pop-rock band The Push Stars. The New York Times calls the band Œclassic pop perfection. When on hiatus from The Push Stars, Chris Trapper writes, record and tours in support of his solo efforts. Additionally, his music can be found on major motion pictures and TV soundtracks including ŒThere is Something About Mary, ŒSay It Isn't So, ŒER, and ŒMalcolm in the Middle.

Spark Contemporary Art Space
Paleo + Marco Polio + Amanda Crowe

Price: $5
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Tokyo String Quartet

Price: $20 regular, $15 senior, $10 student, children under 13 free
Lincoln Middle School
1613 James St., Syracuse

Mozart Quartet No. 14 in G major, K. 387
Beethoven Quartet No. 16 in F major, Op. 135
Brahms Quartet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 51, No. 2

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Pops Series: Dear Mr. Sinatra
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Jason Robert Brown, conductor
Featuring John Pizzarelli, guitar and vocals

Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

He was The Voice... Ol' Blue Eyes...The Chairman of the Board...the man who put Hoboken, NJ on the musical map. There will never be another Frank Sinatra, but fellow Hoboken native, jazzman John Pizzarelli helps the SSO open the M&T Bank Pops series with a musical fan letter to the legendary crooner.

Second Saturday Series: William Nicholson
Westcott Community Center

Price: $10
Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

Anyone that hears him play agrees on one thing -- he is an extraordinary guitarist. Watching his fingers dance among the strings is like watching a masterpiece flow from palette & brush. It is the quintessential expression of an art form.

Aesop's Fables
Open Hand Theater
Steve Abrams

International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Sleeping Beauty
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive version of the children's classic.

The Mischief Makers
Onondaga Community College
Syracuse Stage and the SU Drama Department

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Tales of great mischief in a children's performance about tricksters, rascals and rogues from across three continents.

Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The opulence and elegance of French society in the 1780s (think Versailles) provide the backdrop for this drama of sexual intrigue. Betrayal and cruelty are the favorite pastimes of La Marquise de Merteuil and Le Vicomte de Valmont. Together they plot their conquests and revenges. But when the real thing, love, intrudes, the games turn suddenly deadly.

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