Monday, March 10, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

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

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

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

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Louise Erdrich
Friends of the Central Library Author Series

Price: $25
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Often credited with bringing the Native American experience into mainstream fiction, Erdrich is an award-winning novelist, poet, and short story writer. Many of her novels portray recurring characters who are victims of fate and deal with the conflicts between cultures. Her novels include The Beet Queen, Love Medicine, and The Painted Drum.

Saturday Night Live drummer Valerie Naranjo
Onondaga Community College
OCC Percussion Ensemble

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Valerie Dee Naranjo (percussionist, vocalist, composer, clinician) plays percussion for NBC's Saturday Night Live Band, and has recorded and performed with Broadway's The Lion King, The Philip Glass Ensemble, David Byrne, The Paul Winter Consort, Tori Amos, Airto Moreira, and the international percussion ensemble, MEGADRUMS, which includes Milton Cardona, Zakir Hussein, and Glen Velez. Valerie is known for her pioneering efforts in West African keyboard percussion music.

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

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

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

An Atlas: Radical Cartography Exhibition
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

An Atlas is a nationally traveling exhibition of artists working with "radical cartography", a practice that uses maps and mapping to promote social change, and that is part of a cultural movement that links art, geography, and activism. The participating artists, architects, and collectives in the exhibition play with cartographic convention-geographic shapes, wayfinding symbols, and aerial views- in order to take on issues from globalization to garbage.

While mapping in art practice has expanded into technological and performative realms, An Atlas focuses on a traditional aspect of the map as a work-on-paper, and, importantly, its function as a political agent. The latter is underscored by the mapmakers themselves who are committed to social justice within their own diverse practices.

Works include Ashley Hunt's intricate diagram of the social effects of the global prison-industrial complex; the Center for Urban Pedagogy's mapping of the people who make and manage the "garbage machine" in New York City; Jane Tsong's drawing of how nature and culture clash in Los Angeles' watershed; and Trevor Paglen and John Emerson's route map of CIA rendition flights. The Speculators of AREA Chicago will present "Notes for a People's Atlas of Syracuse." Visitors can pick up blank maps at the gallery to record their own histories and impressions of Syracuse. Returned maps will be displayed at Redhouse and in future exhibitions.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

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.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Julie McKinstry, soprano; Herb McKinstry, trumpet

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

Music for soprano and trumpet, including Scarlatti, Bach, and Handel.

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Thursday, March 13, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Gallery Exhibit: Anne Frank -- A Private Photo Album
Onondaga Community College

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

This stirring exhibit consists of more than 75 black and white photographs taken by Holocaust survivor Otto Frank of his family, including his young daughter, Anne.

Many of these reproductions, from Frank's personal family album, have never before been seen by the public. The photographs were salvaged along with Anne's famous diary (now published in 67 languages) following the family's arrest.

Otto Frank was the only person in his immediate family to survive the horrors of the Holocaust.

This exhibit is on loan from the Anne Frank Center, USA.

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

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.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

Read a review!

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance

Price: $49.50, $39.50, $24.50
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Cinefest 28
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for one day; $70 for all four days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Back Door to Heaven (1939) with Wallace Ford and Patricia Ellis
10:20 am: Off His Base (1932) with Eugene Pallette and James Gleason
10:40 am: Club Havana (1945) with Tom Neal and Margaret Lindsay
12:45 pm: Trailer mania show hosted by Ray Faiola
1:50 pm: Shooting Stars (1928) with Brian Aherne and Annette Benson
3:25 pm: Let Katie Do It (1915) with June Gray, Tully Marshall, and Charles West
4:25 pm: The Singing Fool (1928) with Al Jolson and Betty Bronson
8:10 pm: The Anonymous Letter (1931), a William J. Burns short
8:20 pm: Vagabonding in the South Pacific with John Barrymore
8:40 pm: Smouldering Fires with Pauline Frederick and Laura LaPlante
10:00 pm: Passing Fancy (1933) with Takeshi Sakamoto and Nobulko Fushimi. This film will be accompanied by Makia Matsumura on piano.
11:45 pm: Too Many Blondes (1941) with Rudy Vallee and Shemp Howard

Memoire Reading
LeMoyne College

Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Andrew Krivak, a published poet and former Jesuit who taught English at Le
Moyne, will read from his forthcoming memoir, "A Long Retreat: In Search of
a Religious Life" (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Krivak earned degrees from
St. John's College and Columbia University before entering the Society of
Jesus. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, DoubleTake, and many
other magazines and journals. He currently lives in London. For more
information, call 445-4225.

Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Folkus Project
Featuring John Cadley, with host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

The Words and Music Songwriter Showcase is a celebration of original music from Central New York and beyond, featuring established and emerging artists of all genres in an up-close-and-personal acoustic setting.

The series is hosted by singer-songwriter, author, and NPR contributor Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers.

Each monthly show includes a featured artist performing a full set, four songwriters in the round, original music by Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers, The Song Schmooze, where musicians and music lovers mingle over a drink and a bite to eat. Plus special guests, surprise collaborations, and the Soundbite of the Night, where Rodgers shares a memorable moment from his extraordinary archive of interviews with artists such as Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Jerry Garcia, Ani DiFranco, and Dave Matthews.

Florence of Moravia
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive mystery/comedy dinner theater.

Guys and Dolls
Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

The Threepenny Opera
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

To reserve tickets, phone 315-446-2452 ext. 120.

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Friday, March 14, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

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.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Cinefest 28
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for one day; $70 for all four days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Wayward (1932) with Nancy Carroll, Richard Allen, and Pauline Frederick
10:20 am: Pampered Youth (1926) with Cullen Landis and Ben Alexander
10:45 am: Day-Dreams (1928) with Elsa Lanchester and Charles Laughton
11:10 am: Married? (1926) with Constance Bennett and Owen Moore
1:00 pm: Woman to Woman (1929) with Betty Compson and George Barraud
2:30 pm: Wild Horse Mesa (1925) with Jack Holt, Noah Berry, and Billie Dove
4:20 pm: You're a Sweetheart (1937) with Alice Faye and George Murphy
8:00 pm: Showgirl in Hollywood (1929) with Alice White and Jack Mulhall
9:30 pm: Feed 'Em and Weep (1928) with Max Davidson and Anita Garvin
9:50 pm: Stella Dallas (1926) with Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett
11:45 pm: I'll Tell the World (1934) with Lee Tracy and Gloria Stuart

BakeHouse Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free. Food and beverages available for purchase
Pascale's Bakehouse and Cafe
Hotel Syracuse, 500 S. Warren St., Syracuse

The Santa Claus Happy Tyme Show (directed by Alex George, animation, USA, 30 min.)
Murder... Betrayal!!! It's the Holiday classic for bad children. String puppetry fuses with digital effects in this subversive and frenetic comedy/adventure of elves on strike at Santa's Little Sweatshop.

The Time Odyssey (directed by Jo Se-heon and Jo Seong-yoon, animation, Korea, 7 min.)
Time is relative and all forms of life have different clocks. This story is a short odyssey about three species, two bugs, a cat, and a woman living in the same era but living in different realms of time. A wonderful sound track and imaginative imagery express the fluidity of time.

Sea Change (directed by Joe King and Rosie Pedlow, experimental, England, 6 min.)
Filmed at a caravan park at the end of the season, Sea Change reveals a landscape dramatically transformed by light and time, and resonating with the transience of human presence.

The “BakeHouse Films” series features Best of Fest shorts and animation from the Syracuse International Film Festival archive. The programs last from 40 minutes to an hour. For more information, phone 315-443-8826.

OCC Brass Ensemble
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Classics Series: Guitar Excursions
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Eliot Fisk, guitar

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

Haydn Symphony No. 12 in E major
Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D major
Vivaldi Guitar Concerto in C Major
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Guys and Dolls
Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Little Shop of Horrors
Corcoran High School

Price: $5
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

Seussical the Musical
LaFayette High School

LaFayette High School
3122 Route 11 North, LaFayette

Little Shop of Horrors
Fabius Pompey High School

Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Rumors
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Neil Simon's Rumors is a gut-busting, door-slamming anniversary party interrupted by a missing wife, a lawyer cover-up, and a flesh wound. The four couples arrive, dressed to the nines, and soon nobody can remember who has said what about whom. Hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more frenzied and confused.

The Threepenny Opera
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

To reserve tickets, phone 315-446-2452 ext. 120.

The Wiz
Nottingham High School

Price: $10, $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Trojan Women
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Euripides' bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims.

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Day of Absence
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A satire about an imaginary Southern town where all the black people have suddenly disappeared. The blacks begin to reappear, as mysteriously as they had vanished, and the white community, sobered by what has transpired, breathes a sigh of relief at the return of the rather uneasy status quo. What will happen next is left unsaid, but the suggestion is strong that things will never quite be the same again.

The Pajama Game
Jordan-Elbridge Musical Players
Denise Cerro-Deapo, director

Price: $9
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

The 1954 Tony Award winning popular musical comedy The Pajama Game by Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, George Abbott and Richard Bissell is based on Bissell's best-selling novel 7 1/2 Cents. The performance features some of Broadway's best-known tunes in a story about labor negotiations in the pajama industry. The plot deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a 7 1/2 cent raise are going unheeded. In the midst of this ordeal, love blossoms between Babe, the complaint committee head, and Sid, the new factory superintendent.

Featured in this classic 1950s musical are such memorable songs as "Steam Heat," "Hey There" and "Hernando's Hideaway." The Pajama Game won the 2006 Tony Award for musical revival on Broadway starring Harry Connick Jr.

Tickets can be reserved online by visiting the district's website at www.jecsd.org. For further ticket information, call 315-689-8500 x1700.

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

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

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

New exhibition celebrating 40 years of the AfriCOBRA Artist Collective. AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images will feature works by 10 members of the collective. AfriCOBRA ("African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists") began in Chicago in 1968 as a group of artists who sought to capture the vibrancy and spirit of African American urban life through elements found in traditional African art. Through the years, the group has continued to add new members.

AfriCOBRA: Liberated Images features recent works in a variety of two-and-three-dimensional media. Exhibiting artists include Akili Ron Anderson, Kevin Cole, Adger Cowans, Murry DePillars, Jeff Donaldson (1932-2004), Michael D. Harris, Napoleon Jones-Henderson, James Phillips, Frank Smith and Nelson Stevens. Jones-Henderson, who is a founding member of the group, serves as exhibition administrator for AfriCOBRA.

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States
Community Folk Art Center

Price: Free
Community Folk Art Center
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Interrupted Life: Incarcerated Mothers in the United States is a traveling exhibition curated by Rickie Solinger of WAKEUP/Arts which contains eight linked installations that chronicle the experiences of incarceration. Through the use of artwork, stories and letters shared by incarcerated women and their children, alongside alarming facts and statistics, the exhibition provides an experience that will make the viewer aware of the multitude of issues faced by families involved in the prison system.

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.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

King and Courage
The Warehouse Gallery

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

A selection of paintings, drawings, and a video projection by Tim Rollins + K.O.S. Working in their trademark collaborative style Rollins and K.O.S present previous work along with new pieces produced specifically for the exhibition in a master class with students from Nottingham and Fowler High Schools in Syracuse.

The work in the exhibition is inspired by the speeches of Martin Luther King and the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. By bringing Syracuse high school students into the project along with the work of Stephen Crane, who attended Syracuse University, Rollins and K.O.S. continue their long-standing exploration of how a community can be brought together to explore difference in order to find common ground under the umbrella of the arts.

Cinefest 28
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for one day; $70 for all four days
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

Idle Chatter (1929) vitaphone with Lou Holtz
A Rope and a Story (1928) vitaphone with Tex McLeod
Gus Arnheim and His Orchestra (1928) vitaphone
Eastman House Kodacolor party films
A Philistine in Bohemia (1920) with Rod LaRocque
The Stolen Voice (1915) with Robert Warwick
Violin of M'sieur (1914) with Etienne Giradot
Queen High (1930) with Ginger Rogers and Frank Morgan
The Lady (1925) with Norma Talmadge and Brandon Hurst

(Program resumes at the Holiday Inn at 3:00 pm)

Cinefest 28
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for one day; $70 for all four days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

3:00 pm: Mirthquake shorts program: Home Cured (1900) directed by Roscoe Arbuckle with Johnny Arthur; Uncle Tom's Gal (1900) with Edna Marion; Running Wild (1900) with Eddie Boland and Jean Hope; Unidentified Billy Gilbert with Billy Gilbert and Gene Schuler
3:55 pm: Robber's Roost (1933) with George O'Brien and Maureen O'Sullivan
5:05 pm: South to Karanga (1940) with Charles Bickford and James Craig
8:00 pm: One Romantic Night (The Swan) (1930) with Lillian Gish
9:20 pm: Silent trailer program
9:30 pm: Life in Hollywood (1900), Keaton Studios
9:40 pm: Irene (1900) with Colleen Moore and Lloyd Hughes
11:15 pm: Bought (1931) with Constance Bennett, Ben Lyon, and Ray Milland

Chris Trapper
Redhouse

Price: $13
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Chris Trapper is a Buffalo-native and Boston-based musician who has been honored with numerous Boston Music Awards. He is a founding member and the lead singer for nationally acclaimed pop-rock band The Push Stars.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Rebel Baroque Ensemble

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

From Biber to Bach: A Baroque program.

Classics Series: Guitar Excursions
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Hege, conductor
Featuring Eliot Fisk, guitar

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

Haydn Symphony No. 12 in E major
Castelnuovo-Tedesco Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D major
Vivaldi Guitar Concerto in C Major
Stravinsky The Rite of Spring

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy.

Little Shop of Horrors
Fabius Pompey High School

Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

The Threepenny Opera
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

To reserve tickets, phone 315-446-2452 ext. 120.

Guys and Dolls
Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Guys and Dolls
Cicero-North Syracuse High School

Cicero-North Syracuse High School
6002 State Route 31, Cicero

Seussical the Musical
LaFayette High School

LaFayette High School
3122 Route 11 North, LaFayette

Little Shop of Horrors
Corcoran High School

Price: $5
Corcoran High School
919 Glenwood Ave., Syracuse

Little Shop of Horrors
Fabius Pompey High School

Fabius-Pompey High School
1211 Mill St., Fabius

Rumors
Baldwinsville Theatre Guild
Jon J Barden, director

Price: $15 adults; $12 students
First Presbyterian Church of Baldwinsville
64 Oswego St., Baldwinsville

Neil Simon's Rumors is a gut-busting, door-slamming anniversary party interrupted by a missing wife, a lawyer cover-up, and a flesh wound. The four couples arrive, dressed to the nines, and soon nobody can remember who has said what about whom. Hilarity abounds as the couples get more and more frenzied and confused.

The Threepenny Opera
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

To reserve tickets, phone 315-446-2452 ext. 120.

The Wiz
Nottingham High School

Price: $10, $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

The Trojan Women
Appleseed Productions
Dan Stevens, director

Price: $15 regular; $12 students/seniors (price includes dessert and beverage at intermission)
Atonement Lutheran Church
116 W. Glen Ave., Syracuse

Euripides' bleak and agonizing portrait of war's brutality inspired by a barbaric act of retribution committed on the isle of Melos during the war between Athens and Sparta, this masterpiece of pathos thrusts audiences into the pain suffered by innocent victims.

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Day of Absence
LeMoyne College
Major Arcana

Marren Studio Theatre, Coyne Performing Arts Ctr
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A satire about an imaginary Southern town where all the black people have suddenly disappeared. The blacks begin to reappear, as mysteriously as they had vanished, and the white community, sobered by what has transpired, breathes a sigh of relief at the return of the rather uneasy status quo. What will happen next is left unsaid, but the suggestion is strong that things will never quite be the same again.

The Pajama Game
Jordan-Elbridge Musical Players
Denise Cerro-Deapo, director

Price: $9
Jordan-Elbridge High School
Hamilton Road, Jordan

The 1954 Tony Award winning popular musical comedy The Pajama Game by Richard Adler, Jerry Ross, George Abbott and Richard Bissell is based on Bissell's best-selling novel 7 1/2 Cents. The performance features some of Broadway's best-known tunes in a story about labor negotiations in the pajama industry. The plot deals with labor troubles in a pajama factory, where worker demands for a 7 1/2 cent raise are going unheeded. In the midst of this ordeal, love blossoms between Babe, the complaint committee head, and Sid, the new factory superintendent.

Featured in this classic 1950s musical are such memorable songs as "Steam Heat," "Hey There" and "Hernando's Hideaway." The Pajama Game won the 2006 Tony Award for musical revival on Broadway starring Harry Connick Jr.

Tickets can be reserved online by visiting the district's website at www.jecsd.org. For further ticket information, call 315-689-8500 x1700.

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

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

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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An Evening of Love Songs
Opening Night Productions

Price: $18 plus cost of dinner
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The program includes more than 30 standards, show tunes and pop-style love songs such as My Funny Valentine, All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera, Makin' Whoopee, For All We Know, Fly Me To The Moon, Still from Titanic, Take Me As I Am from Jekyll & Hyde, Faithfully, Just In Time, Happily Ever After and One Alone from The Desert Song. The show stars Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, Bill Ali, Becky Bottrill.

Show Only packages are available for $28 per person. This includes the $18 theatre ticket and a $10 Glen Loch Restaurant gift certificate. The gift certificates may be used at any time for food or drink.

For reservations call the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

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.

Modernist Prints 1900-1955
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Since the turn of the century America and Europe have had a symbiotic relationship towards art. Movements that were born in Europe have been nurtured in the United States and those styles developed here have had a significant impact on artists abroad. In the years before World War I avant-garde movements in Europe seemed radical to many Americans but also extremely exciting to others. As the century progressed movements emerged that borrowed issues, techniques, devices, or other attributes from pre-existing styles. This led to a generic 'modernist' label for those art forms that did not seem to emerge from a traditional, academic manner.

The artwork in this exhibition was created by important artists of the era including Vasily Kandinsky, Joan Miro, and S. W. Hayter from Europe, and the Americans Stuart Davis, Boris Margo, and Morris Blackburn. The prints have been chosen to illustrate the multiplicity of graphic art styles that became popular during the period.

Beloved Daughters: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh
Syracuse University Art Museum

Syracuse University Art Museum, Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

SUArt Galleries presents Beloved Daughters, an exhibition that unites the Moksha (Heaven) and Ladli (Beloved Daughter) series, two of photographer-activist Fazal Sheikh's most recent projects concerning the lives of women in India.

The first of the two series, Moksha, completed in 2005, focuses on dispossessed widows who find refuge in the holy city of Vrindavan in northern India. They worship the god Krishna in hopes of being released from the cycle of reincarnation from past actions, samsara, into a higher state, moksha. The second, Ladli, reveals horrific stories of infanticide, feticide and other forms of abuse directed towards the women all over India.

Fazal Sheikh creates sustained portraits of communities around the world through photography, addressing people's beliefs and traditions as well as their socio-economic problems. Both Moksha and Ladli are hardcover books and are available at the gallery store.

Fazal Ilahi Sheikh was born in 1965 in New York City. Since graduating from Princeton University in 1987, he has worked with displaced communities across East Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Brazil, Cuba and India. In 2005 Sheikh was named a MacArthur Fellow. Additional fellowships include those from the J. William Fulbright Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, the Nederlands Fotomuseum, Mondriaan Foundation, and the Mother Jones International Documentary Fund. Sheikh is the recipient of the International Henri Cartier-Bresson Grand Prize, the Prix d'Arles, the Infinity Award, the Leica Medal of Excellence, the Ruttenberg Award, and the Ferguson Award.

On the Move: Images of Travel from Everson Musuem of Art and Syracuse University Collections
Everson Museum of Art

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

As a result of technological advancement and the human desire to explore and secure resources, travel has become a primary force in shaping contemporary life and global history. In today's world, travel has become a normal part of everyday life. In fact, tourism and travel now drive several of the world's largest economic sectors.

On the Move displays a wide range of objects focusing on travel as a universal experience from the Industrial Revolution to the present day. Featuring objects from the Everson Museum and the multiple collections of Syracuse University, the exhibition highlights dreams of idyllic travel as well as the harsher realities of getting from one place to another.

On the Move has been organized by Syracuse University students in the Graduate Program in Museum Studies, in the Masters in Fine Arts program and the History of Art program who are under the curatorial guidance of Professors Edward Aiken and Judith Meighan in collaboration with the Everson. The exhibition includes works from the Everson Museum of Art, the Syracuse University Art Collections, Light Work, and the Special Collections Research Center of Syracuse University Library.

Pollock Matters
Everson Museum of Art

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

Pollock Matters, curated by art historian Ellen G. Landau of Case-Western Reserve University, explores for the first time the personal and artistic relationship between famed American Abstract Expressionist painter Jackson Pollock and his close friend, noted Swiss-born photographer and graphic designer, Herbert Matter.

Featuring compelling visual and documentary evidence, the exhibition demonstrates the impact of the artists' interaction on their respective work. Comprising paintings, drawings, works on paper and other documentation -- including previously unseen photographs and letters -- it compares Matter's experimental abstract photos with known works by Pollock, and highlights their significant stylistic, technical and thematic connections.

Pollock Matters also showcases 24 small-scale works discovered by Herbert Matter's son, Alex Matter, in a storage facility in 2002. The paintings, although identified as "Jackson experimental works" by an inscription in Herbert Matter's hand and dated 1958 (2 years after the artist's death), have been the subject of much controversy, scientific study, scholarly analysis, and significant media attention. In the exhibition and accompanying catalog, Curator Ellen Landau thoroughly investigates questions raised by this unprecedented discovery of previously unknown works: "If Pollock did not paint a portion of the cache, who did? How many artists were involved? And, no less importantly, what was the purpose of these paintings?" The debate will, without doubt, continue beyond the exhibition and for decades to come.

Images of Vice and Virtue from the Syracuse University Art Collection
Everson Museum of Art

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

Images of Vice and Virtue investigates how artists from different cultures and time periods visualized fundamental themes of good and evil. Early civilizations enacted codes of conduct believing that individual behavior benefited from these guidelines. The ancient Greeks developed a set of inspirational values that included prudence, justice, courage and temperance. Later, Christianity refined and enlarged these to the seven holy virtues against which were set seven deadly sins. Additionally, bible stories illustrated what would happen to individuals who either followed or violated church doctrine.

Western society's growing secularization from the late 18th century onward gave artists greater freedom in interpreting biblical subjects and themes. Artists like Picasso strongly criticized the Spanish government in a pair of prints that depicted the ruler Francisco Franco as a biological polyp. Andy Warhol showed his support for the civil rights movement in a 1964 print of the Birmingham race riot. These examples further indicated the artist's growing role as an individual commenting on good and evil.

Also included in the exhibition are several pieces by non-western cultures. Like their western counterparts, these pieces were inspired and informed by their culture's historical beliefs about good and evil and were often drawn from stories used to explain those beliefs. All of the objects in the exhibition have been drawn from Syracuse Universitys encyclopedic collection of over 45,000 objects.

Images of Vice and Virtue is curated by David Prince, Associate Director of Syracuse University Art Collection.

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Paper Arts in the Low Countries: 1600 - 1800
Everson Museum of Art

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

The Low Countries, a region comprising present-day Holland and Belgium, was a site of truly spectacular art production during the so-called early modern period, ca. 1600 to ca. 1800. Indeed, some of the foremost artists in the history of European art practiced within this region, including Rembrandt van Rijn and Peter Paul Rubens. Although the art-loving public is quite familiar with paintings by Dutch (Holland) and Flemish (Belgium) masters their drawings and prints are less known, despite the many outstanding examples of such work that survive. Some of the most memorable and impressive art during this period was made with ink and paper, as opposed to oil paint and canvases and panels. Paper Arts in the Low Countries, 1600-1800 consists of 35 noteworthy examples of drawings and prints by prominent masters of the Low Countries (including Rembrandt and Rubens), drawn from a number of private collections and from the holdings of the Syracuse University Art Collection and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University.

Paper Arts in the Low Countries is curated by Dr. Wayne Franits, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Fine Arts, Syracuse University with the assistance of graduate students currently enrolled in the Fine Arts program.

Cinefest 28
Syracuse Cinephile Society

Price: $25 for one day; $70 for all four days
Holiday Inn
Electronics Parkway, Liverpool

9:00 am: Jungle Princess (1936) with Dorothy Lamour and Ray Milland
10:30 am: Auction hosted by Leonard Maltin, George Read, and Gerry Orlando
12:00 pm: Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (1923) with Boris Barnet and Vladimir Fogel
1:30 pm: Disappearing Enemies (1931) with Rex Bell and Edward McWade
1:50 pm: Only Saps Work (1930) with Leon Errol, Richard Arlen, and Mary Brian
3:05 pm: Jailbreak (1938) with Barton MacLaine and June Travis
4:10 pm: Gift of Gab (1934) with Edmund Lowe, Gloria Stuart, and Ruth Etting

Side-By-Side Concert
Syracuse Youth Orchestras
Kenneth Andrews, conductor

Price: $12 regular, $8 children
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Winner of the CMM Concerto Competition, performing with the SSO.

Silver Screen Spectacular
Syracuse University Brass Ensemble
James T. Spencer, conductor

Price: $5 regular; $3 seniors
Palace Theater
2384 James St., Syracuse

The group will perform favorite movie themes and present a surprise viewing on the Palace's movie screen. The concert will include It's Showtime arranged by Goff Richards, Alford's Col. Bogey March, and music from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, The Magnificent Seven, Pirates of the Caribbean, Wizard of Oz, and the Keystone Cops.

The Threepenny Opera
Manlius Pebble Hill School

Price: $10
Manlius Pebble Hill School
5300 Jamesville Rd., Dewitt

To reserve tickets, phone 315-446-2452 ext. 120.

All in the Timing
Rarely Done Productions
Brian Hensley, director

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

Six playful one-acts combine the cerebral, the wordplay of modern romance, and thoughts on our closest relatives on this planet contemplating the Melancholy Dane.

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The Bomb-itty of Errors
Syracuse Stage
Andy Goldberg, director

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

Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors has its origins in ancient Rome in Plautus's wild comedy The Menaechmi. Two sets of identical twins and multiple cases of mistaken identity make for a riotous comic event. This latest incarnation is a hip-hop, rap romp retelling of the famous comedy. Four gifted performers hit the street to launch an assault of non-stop, lightning-paced, side-splitting comedy. After all, the Bard was a master of "word."

Nunsensations! The Nunsense Vegas Revue
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular, $23 students/seniors, $16 children 12 and under
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

The CNY premiere of the new musical comedy by Danny Goggin, creator of the Nunsense shows. The worlds favorite nuns, The Little Sisters of Hoboken, are on a brand new adventure to Las Vegas. When a parishioner volunteers to donate $10,000 to the sisters' school if they will perform in a club in Vegas, Mother Superior is hesitant to accept. However, after being convinced by the other sisters that "what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas," Reverend Mother agrees. Performing in The Pump Room "high atop the 3rd floor of the Mystique Motor Lodge in the soul of Sin City," the sisters experience "show-biz" like never before. There's more feathers, more fans, more hats and more hi-jinks.

The show stars Christine Lightcap as Rev. Mother, Kate Huddleston as Sister Hubert, Jodie Baum as Sister Robert Anne, Erin Race as Sister Amnesia, and Sofia Coon as Sister Leo. It's produced by Executive Producer Christine Lightcap and directed and choreographed by Ken Prescott, two-time Los Angeles Drama Logue Winner and three-time Desert Theatre League Award winner. Music direction is by Josh Smith, SALT Award winner for Best Music Director of the Year.

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The Wiz
Nottingham High School

Price: $10, $7 regular; $5 students/seniors
Nottingham High School
3100 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Monday, March 17, 2008

17th Annual Matrilineage Symposium Community Art Show
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

The art show and symposium celebrate the accomplishments of women in art and activism. We provide a unique educational setting in which the artists from all disciplines present their work and discuss it in an open forum outside of the classroom. Guest speakers this year include the Guerrilla Girls, Carolee Schneemann, Vienna Teng, Tina Takemoto, Katherine Slusher, and Nina Katchadourian.

Viewing by appointment. Contact mkarmstr@syr.edu for more information.

TV Dinner Series: Monotypes by Mick Mather
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Paintings and Sculpture
Syracuse Technology Garden Gallery

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

Artists exhibiting include Rachael Baldanza, Amber Balding, Alex Betancourt, Anna, Cinquemani, Sally Dutko, Bob Rose, Helena Cooper, Jeanne Dupre, Peg Hewitt, Nicholas Ruth, Sylvia Steen, Joan Stier, Karen Tashkovski, Leigh Yardley, Louise Woodard, and members of the North Syracuse Art Guild. Includes digital photography, mixed-media collages, art quilts, fiber compositions, and landscapes.

The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement
Syracuse University Library Special Collections Research Center

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

Spanning the years between 1960 and 1975, the initial period of the Black Arts Movement is variously associated with the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964, the assassination of Malcolm X in 1965, and the subsequent rise of the Nation of Islam. Although the origin of the Black Arts Movement still generates debate among scholars, there is no doubt that it signaled the rise of a new cultural aesthetic marked by an extraordinary burst of creative energy in the literary, performing, and visual arts. Significantly, the Black Arts Movement opened the floodgates for a diversity of American voices, while offering an impressive model for the expression of minority points of view.

Because no exhibit on the Black Arts Movement would be complete without mention of one of its founding fathers, Amiri Baraka, we take this opportunity to draw attention to the printed resources that have been gathered to enhance the manuscript collection acquired by the library in the mid-1960s related to the Beat periodical Yugen, which Baraka edited from 1958 to 1962. More recently, we acquired a cache of material pertaining to Barakas arrest in 1967 in Newark, New Jersey, his defense by the writing community, and the subsequent dismissal of the charges against him.

Composed of artistic, cultural, political, and social dimensions, the Black Arts Movement was propelled by the simultaneous emergence of a number of small presses that promoted the work of black artists, dramatists, and poets. The exhibit focuses on two African American presses, the Broadside Press and the Third World Press, as well as a series of poetry pamphlets issued in London by the publisher Paul Breman. Together, these small independent presses brought to wider attention the work of Gwendolyn Brooks, Ed Bullins, Ben Caldwell, Sam Cornish, Ray Durem, Nikki Giovanni, David Henderson, Ted Jones, Etheridge Knight, Haki R. Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Sonia Sanchez, Lorenzo Thomas, Askia Touré, Marvin X, Al Young, and many others. The Black Power aesthetic of much of this literature is often reinforced by the cover art for these productions. This artwork documents the emergence of a distinctive, yet tremendously varied, graphic style.

Karen Tashkovski: Mixed Media Paintings
Westcott Community Center

Westcott Community Center
Corner of Euclid Ave. and Westcott St., Syracuse

The mixed-media paintings are from a series created in 2000. Titled "Dream Time," they depict the explosive dreams of the artist through the eyes of a cat. Tashkovski, a graduate of Syracuse University and an art teacher with the Chittenango Central School district, paints with oils and then attaches items to the canvas including more canvas, game pieces, playing cards, and sea-shells, which add texture to the work. The layers of texture represent the depth of a person's character.

Ollin Mecatl: The Measure of Movement
Light Work Gallery

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

Photographer Don Gregorio Antón creates mystical retablos that look like sacred objects in themselves. They are intimately small and sit on little stands to be viewed individually. Each retablo is one of a kind. Retabols, or ex votos as they are sometimes called, have been part of Mexico's tradition since the 17th century. They were originally hung behind the altars of Catholic churches, and remain a tradition to this day.

Works of Scott Bennett
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

The Irish Tenors
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra

Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Celebrate with the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra as we welcome the return of The Irish Tenors. Anthony Kearns, Finbar Wright, and Karl Scully will take you on a breathtaking journey of the imagination across the ocean and, indeed, across time to the Emerald Isle for a St. Patrick's Day you'll long remember.