Saturday, February 16, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

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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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.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
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.

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.

Special Event: Appalachian Spring
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Martha Graham Dance Company

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

From Carnegie Hall to the base of Egypt's Great Pyramids, Martha Graham Dance Company has garnered international acclaim as the most celebrated contemporary dance company in America. With the SSO performing the music of Aaron Copland, the company will bring to life one of its most treasured works, Appalalchian Spring. The program will also include Errand into the Maze (Menotti), Diversion of Angels (Dello Joio), and Ardent Song (Hovhaness).

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Keepin' it Reel 08: Rock Fresh
Community Folk Art Center

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

Keepin' it Reel 08: Mixtress X
Community Folk Art Center

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

Mixtress X: Hip Hop Unsung Heroine by filmmaker Dante Kaba.

Hip Hop is a cultural movement of black youth. As a constantly evolving form of self- expression and a social reflection of contemporary urban life, it is rooted in the oral history of African-American story-telling. Since the inception of Hip Hop, women dj's have been a vital participants in the construction and development of this international musical genre. Mixtress X documents this untold story, spotlighting women hip hop artists this unique contribution to the musical form as they operate and contend with a predominantly male-dominated multi-million dollar industry.

While excavating the history of unsung women dj's and charting the course of the hip hop movement from a gendered point of view, Mixtress X seeks to provide an uncensored platform for these underground and mainstream women artists who have been transforming their self-images within global Hip Hop movement.

Keepin' it Reel 08: The Hip Hop Project
Community Folk Art Center

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

Piano Master Class
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Ann Schein, piano

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

Students from the School of Music will perform.

Ann Schein has performed in major American and European cities and in capitals of more than 50 countries around the world. In 1980, she extended the legacy of her legendary teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Arthur Rubenstein and Dame Myra Hess, presenting the major Chopin repertoire in six concerts in Lincoln Centers Alice Tully Hall, the first Chopin cycle to be heard in New York in 35 years.

Her recordings include solo piano works of Schumann and early songs of Alban Berg, in collaboration with Jessye Norman. From 19802000, she was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1984.

Syracuse University African Drumming Ensemble

Price: Free
Dewitt Community Library
Shoppingtown Mall, Dewitt

This hour-long interactive family event will feature The African Drumming Ensemble performing in honor of Black History Month. The ensemble is co-led by Bill Cole a professor in the Department of African American Studies in The College of Arts & Sciences at Syracuse University and by drummer and choreographer Biboti Ouikahilo, who will be joined by nine other musicians. Biboti, a native of the Ivory Coast is founder of Syracuse's Wacheva Cultural Arts West African Dance, Drum and Mask Ensemble.

Registration is encouraged. To register, phone 315-446-3578 or visit www.dewlib.org and click on the gold star on the home page.

Please note: The Library in now in its new location at ShoppingTown Mall on ground level below the food court in a portion of the space formerly occupied by the BonTon department store.

Masquerade Ball
Delavan Art Gallery
Featuring Marcia Rutledge and Jason Kessler

Price: $10
Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Live jazz by Marcia Rutledge and Jason Kessler, plus a fine assortment of hors d'oeuvres and non-alcoholic beverages. Masks by Evamaria Harden and the exhibition "The Artistic Domain" will be on view.

What to Bring: An eccentric outfit with mask, and your favorite alcoholic beverage!

Prizes will be awarded for Best Dressed Lady, Best Dressed Gentleman, and Best Dressed We're-not-sure.

Syracuse Friends of Chamber Music
Rossetti Quartet

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

Mozart Quartet No 20 in D Major, K 499
Debussy Quartet
Dvorak Quartet No 14 in A-flat major, Op. 105

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy.

Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Simple Stories/Simple Truths: Selected Works by Langston Hughes
Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment, Inc.

Price: $15. Seating is limited.
1555 South Salina St.
Syracuse

In the 1960s, Harlem was home to famous jazz clubs like Small's Paradise, the Savoy Ballroom and the Cotton Club. Harlem claimed many legendary musicians, writers and activists: Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, and Malcolm X to name a few. Harlem was also the hangout of a fictional character Hughes created named Jesse B. Semple, whose friends affectionately call Simple.

Focusing Our Resources for Community Enlightenment will bring this Harlem past to present by bringing Hughes' stories to life in the script-in-hand presentation, Simple Stories/Simple Truths: Selected Works by Langston Hughes. Script-in-hand performances are "interpretive" or "dramatic" readings in which actors read their lines with script in hand.

Simple Stories captures the mood, movement, and vitality of Harlem and black America during the 1960s while presenting fictional conversations between Hughes and Jesse B. Semple, an ordinary man with extraordinary insights on being black in white America which he expresses in a natural and "simple" way. In keeping with the stories' cafe setting, audience members will be served food and beverage in the fictional Club Café @ 1555 after the performances.

For reservations, phone 315-382-5987.

Deadly Inheritance

Price: $39, dinner and show
Gilfillan's West Hill Catering Club
West Hill Road, Camillus

Interactive dinner theater/comedy. Benefit for the Octagon House.
Information: 315-487-5911.

Anton in Show Business
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin Theater Group
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A savvy, savage backstage comedy by Jane Martin. In it, Anton skewers incompetent producers, idiot directors, surgically beautified actors, crass sponsors, self-important critics, and satirizes, celebrates, and challenges the importance of theatre as an art form today.

Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Arabian Nights
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, celebrates the powers of storytelling as the play follows Scheherezade, bride of the caliph Shahryar, as she uses her narrative skills to postpone her execution by telling the caliph elaborate stories. The caliph, having been cheated on by his first wife, now beds and murders a different virgin every night. Scheherezade tries to evade this fate through her spellbinding powers of tale telling.

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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, February 17, 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.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

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.

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!

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.

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.

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

Keepin' it Reel 08: Holy Hip Hop
Community Folk Art Center

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

Tea and Films
Syracuse International Film Festival

Price: Free for films; refreshments available to purchase
Roji Tea House
108 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Letter on Red; Sea Change; Kalakar; The Life; Las Viandas

Charles Cannon and the Bells of Harmony
Arts Alive in Liverpool

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

Spirituals and original compositions from their CD Live in Syracuse.

Syracuse University Black History Month Cabaret
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation
Featuring Barbara Morrison

Price: $5 regular; $3 with student I.D.
Schine Underground, Schine Student Center
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Barbara Morrison returns to celebrate Black History Month by poplar demand. Barbara will perform with the CNY Jazz Quartet as well as coach and perform with the finest young vocal jazz, a cappella and gospel talent S.U. has to offer! Light refreshments included. This event produced in partnership with the Syracuse University Office of Multicultural Affairs.

For reservations, phone the Schine Box Office, 315-443-4517.

Piano Recital
Malmgren Concert Series
Featuring Ann Schein

Price: Free
Hendricks Chapel
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Franz Schubert Impromptu in E-flat major, Op. 90, Impromptu in G-flat major, Opus 90
Robert Schumann Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6
Maurice Ravel Sonatine
Claude Debussy L'isle Joyeuse
Franz Liszt Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli (Années de Pèlerinage)

Ann Schein has performed in major American and European cities and in capitals of more than 50 countries around the world. In 1980, she extended the legacy of her legendary teachers, Mieczyslaw Munz, Arthur Rubenstein and Dame Myra Hess, presenting the major Chopin repertoire in six concerts in Lincoln Centers Alice Tully Hall, the first Chopin cycle to be heard in New York in 35 years.

Her recordings include solo piano works of Schumann and early songs of Alban Berg, in collaboration with Jessye Norman. From 19802000, she was on the piano faculty of the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore. She has been an artist-faculty member of the Aspen Music Festival and School since 1984.

Deadly Inheritance

Price: $39, dinner and show
Gilfillan's West Hill Catering Club
West Hill Road, Camillus

Interactive dinner theater/comedy. Benefit for the Octagon House.
Information: 315-487-5911.

Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Arabian Nights
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, celebrates the powers of storytelling as the play follows Scheherezade, bride of the caliph Shahryar, as she uses her narrative skills to postpone her execution by telling the caliph elaborate stories. The caliph, having been cheated on by his first wife, now beds and murders a different virgin every night. Scheherezade tries to evade this fate through her spellbinding powers of tale telling.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Monday, February 18, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

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.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

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.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

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.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

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.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

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.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

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.

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.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
Limestone Art and Framing Gallery

Limestone Art and Framing Gallery
105 Brooklea Dr., Fayetteville

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.

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.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
S.U. Morton Schiff Jazz Ensemble
Joseph Riposo and John Coggiola, conductor

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

The program will feature jazz compositions selected from Stolen Moments by Oliver Nelson, Better Get Hit in Your Soul by Charles Mingus, Body and Soul by Johnny Green, Anthropology by Charlie Parker, Shades by Bill Holman and many more jazz standards.

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $45, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Nominated for 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, with a score by David Yazbek (The Full Monty) and book by Jeffrey Lane, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, based on the blockbuster film, is a scamming, scheming, double-crossing Broadway smash. Set on the glorious, glamorous Riviera, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is "a laugh-a-minute musical" (the San Diego Union-Tribune) that follows two con artists as they take on the lifestyles of the rich and shameless - and end up with a lot more then they bargain for.

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Rumors

Price: $36
Landmark Theatre
362 S. Salina St., Syracuse

Play by J.D Lawrence.
Information: 315-472-0700.

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

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.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

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.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

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.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

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.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Architect David Rockwell
Syracuse University School of Architecture

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

Architect David Rockwell will discuss his most recent book, Spectacle. The book explores the allure of larger-than-life events that take place around the world from the running of the bulls in Pamplona to the Holi Festival in India to NASCAR races, and what it is about these experiences that transform the way we see the world and how we connect with each other. As part of the event, Rockwell and Mark Robbins, dean of the School of Architecture, will discuss the book and select projects by Rockwell in a conversation format. The event includes a book signing.

David Rockwell, a graduate of the School of Architecture, is the principal and founder of The Rockwell Group. Founded in 1984, the 160-person firm has completed more than 150 projects including Chambers and W hotels in New York and dozens of restaurants. Included in his many designs are the Mohegan Sun casinos, the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, Nobu, Cirque de Soleil, and the set of the smash hit Broadway musical "Hairspray." Rockwell has been honored with a lifetime achievement award from Interiors magazine, is included in Interior Design magazine's Hall of Fame, and was awarded the Presidential Design Award for the Grand Central Terminal renovation.

Universe Publishing released Pleasure: The Architecture Design of Rockwell Group documenting the group's first 18 years. Spectacle, published in 2006 in collaboration with designer Bruce Mau, is illustrated with over 200 color photographs, and features interviews with award-winning authors, producers, directors, and performers. These contributors have documented, participated in, or produced large events and bring a fascinating behind-the-scenes and in front-of-the footlights perspective on "spectacles" today.

Music for Clarinet Big and Little
Civic Morning Musicals
Featuring Tom McKay, clarinet; Della Holzapple, piano

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

This interesting program will consist of well known standard repertoire as well as the Malcolm Arnold Sonatina and two pieces by Paquito D'Rivera.

Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Open End

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

The performance will feature music of late 20th-century masters Witold Lutoslawski and Luciano Berio and Setnor faculty members Andrew Waggoner and Daniel S. Godfrey as well as a set of free improvisations for strings and piano.

Equally committed to new chamber music, particularly by composers with no easily-pegged stylistic affiliations, and to free improvisation, Open End is made up of players well known in other group contexts whose collective experience spans the whole of Western instrumental literature, from the oldest to the newest. The group has performed over the last three seasons in New York City, Syracuse, France and Italy. Open End is: Michael Jinsoo Lim and Andrew Waggoner, violins; Melia Watras, viola; Caroline Stinson, also a faculty member in the Setnor School, cello; and Molly Morkoski, piano.

David Treuer, Fiction
Raymond Carver Reading Series

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

Jennifer Pashley, fiction
LeMoyne College

Reilly Room, Reilly Hall
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $45, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Nominated for 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, with a score by David Yazbek (The Full Monty) and book by Jeffrey Lane, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, based on the blockbuster film, is a scamming, scheming, double-crossing Broadway smash. Set on the glorious, glamorous Riviera, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is "a laugh-a-minute musical" (the San Diego Union-Tribune) that follows two con artists as they take on the lifestyles of the rich and shameless - and end up with a lot more then they bargain for.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Arabian Nights
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, celebrates the powers of storytelling as the play follows Scheherezade, bride of the caliph Shahryar, as she uses her narrative skills to postpone her execution by telling the caliph elaborate stories. The caliph, having been cheated on by his first wife, now beds and murders a different virgin every night. Scheherezade tries to evade this fate through her spellbinding powers of tale telling.

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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

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.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

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.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

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.

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.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
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.

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.

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

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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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.

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.

A reception for this exhibit will take place from 5:00pm - 8:00pm

Shattered Silence Preview
Spark Contemporary Art Space

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

Preview screening of Shattered Silence artwork.

Going West, Going South, Going North?
Urban Video Project

Fayette Firefighters Memorial Park
Fayette St., Syracuse

The Urban Video Project (UVP) will present its seventh volume of outdoor multimedia projections beginning at dusk. The projections will take place regardless of weather conditions.

Going West, Going South, Going North? features works by German artist Juergen Staack and Canadian artist Gwen MacGregor. Curator of the show is the Avalanche Collective, an artist group led by three graduate students from Syracuse University's College of Visual and Performing Arts: Blake Carrington, Christopher Gianunzio and Colin Todd. The screening is the first of UVP's spring season, which features international artists and coincides with the spring evenings of Th3: A City-Wide Art Open, which is held on the third Thursday of each month.

Staack's Gerberstrasse 21 is a single shot of a lonely street in a village 60 miles from Berlin. An old man finally breaks the stillness, perhaps the only resident in this German ghost town. The work is a commentary on the plight of many former East German towns and cities that experienced a mass exodus of their populations after the fall of socialism.

MacGregor's Going South? -- also a single shot -- echoes the feeling of abandonment. It features a rickety old home facing a snowstorm, with traffic from an interstate highway zooming by without a care. Cruise, also by MacGregor, offers an escape with beautiful views of the Alaskan sea from the windows of a northbound cruise ship.

Film Series: Purvis of Overtown
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This remarkable film chronicles the art and non-traditional lifestyle of prolific artist Purvis Young, a self-taught artist who became a visual storyteller and icon of African-American history and culture. "Purvis of Overtown" was graciously donated by Matt Arnett and Tinwood Alliance, Ltd. (67 minutes)

Film Series: Purvis of Overtown
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

This remarkable film chronicles the art and non-traditional lifestyle of prolific artist Purvis Young, a self-taught artist who became a visual storyteller and icon of African-American history and culture. "Purvis of Overtown" was graciously donated by Matt Arnett and Tinwood Alliance, Ltd. (67 minutes)

Aartist Talk
The Warehouse Gallery
Featuring Tim Rollins

The Warehouse Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Artist Tim Rollins will give insight into the process of creation, his unique style of working and a tour of the exhibition King and Courage. Artist reception immediately following.

An Evening with Spike Lee
Syracuse University Black Communications Society and CRS Department

Price: $5
OnCenter Convention Center
800 South State St., Syracuse

Lee will discuss his Emmy-winning documentary When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.

Tickets are available through the Syracuse University Schine box office, 315-443-4517.

Words and Music Songwriter Showcase
Folkus Project
Featuring Gary Frenay and Arty Lenin, with Dick Ward, Linda Stout, and Ed Zacholl, and host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers

Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Gary Frenay and Arty Lenin, the SAMMY Award-winning duo (recently inducted into the Syracuse Music Hall of Fame), have been entertaining Central New Yorkers for decades in a variety of bands including the Flashcubes, Screen Test, the Neverly Brothers, and the Fab Five.

Dick Ward is a fingerstyle guitar player who has been singing and writing songs for many years. His recent CD Strings Attached was produced in association with Syracuse's Guitar League.

Linda Stout writes jazzy acoustic pop songs on guitar and baritone ukulele. Her self-produced debut CD, Good Luck Child, gained "Best Solo CD" and "Best Female Singer" accolades from The Ithaca Journal.

Ed Zacholl is the primary songwriter for the groove-injected Z-Bones. This inventive tunesmith from Tipperary Hill had a song covered by Savoy Brown, and he wrote the title track for the Blue Wave holiday CD/TV special titled Here Comes Another Christmas.

Host Jeffrey Pepper Rodgers is a singer-songwriter, author, and contributor to NPR's All Things Considered. Music journalist Andy Ellis (Guitar Player, Frets) calls Rodgers' brand-new solo CD, Humming My Way Back Home, "folk music with a serrated edge...a magical blend of storytelling and driving flattop guitar.

Death Takes a Cruise
Acme Mystery Company

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

Interactive comedy murder mystery.

Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Broadway in Syracuse

Price: $55, $45, $30
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Nominated for 11 Tony Awards including Best Musical, with a score by David Yazbek (The Full Monty) and book by Jeffrey Lane, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, based on the blockbuster film, is a scamming, scheming, double-crossing Broadway smash. Set on the glorious, glamorous Riviera, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is "a laugh-a-minute musical" (the San Diego Union-Tribune) that follows two con artists as they take on the lifestyles of the rich and shameless - and end up with a lot more then they bargain for.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Anton in Show Business
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin Theater Group
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A savvy, savage backstage comedy by Jane Martin. In it, Anton skewers incompetent producers, idiot directors, surgically beautified actors, crass sponsors, self-important critics, and satirizes, celebrates, and challenges the importance of theatre as an art form today.

Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award.

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Arabian Nights
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, celebrates the powers of storytelling as the play follows Scheherezade, bride of the caliph Shahryar, as she uses her narrative skills to postpone her execution by telling the caliph elaborate stories. The caliph, having been cheated on by his first wife, now beds and murders a different virgin every night. Scheherezade tries to evade this fate through her spellbinding powers of tale telling.

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Friday, February 22, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

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.

Tango
Point of Contact Gallery

Price: Free
Point of Contact Gallery
350 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Tango, a large format folio published by Iris Editions in New York (1991) with eight intaglio prints by Nancy Graves and 13 pages of text by Pedro Cuperman that gaze at the aesthetics of this Latin American dance.

Tango proposes an evening of music, dance, and food transposed into videoa sort of "performance" projected into the space of the gallery where audience and art become intertwined in the field of representation.

"Graves conceived of the prints in the folio as a continued exploration of pattern in nature and as a tonal study of black and white," writes Thomas Padon in his book, Nancy Graves, Excavations in Print A Catalogue Raisonné (1996). "More than once the artist has asserted, 'There is nothing more challenging and meaningful than to make prints in black and white.' For an admitted colorist, it is ironic that the nine prints Graves has made in black and white are among her most powerful." The cryptic titles of the prints in the folio were selected by Graves from Cuperman's text for Tango. The poet speaks of the dance as a gradually unfolding ritual, stating near the conclusion, "Tango helps you find your own levels of proximity."

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.

Photos and Drawings by Ben Hale
Westcott Community Center

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

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.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

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

Exhibit features work by Transmedia students at Syracuse University.

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.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
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.

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.

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

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.

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.

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.

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

String on The Kite (Directed by Michael Fallavolitta, USA, fiction, 24 minutes)
The story of a young boy and his grandfather, and how the boy copes with his death.

Attack of the Bride Monster (Directed by Vicky Bonne, fiction, USA, 17 minutes)
A Bride Monster is loose in the gay community; can Betty and Stella's relationship survive? Stella watches in horror as her longtime companion is transformed.

Wonder Woman Louise (Directed by Anita Lebeau, animation, Canada, 10 minutes)
In Wonder Woman, the ordinary becomes extraordinary. At 96, Louise's plans sometimes miscarry, but her sense of humor is foolproof.

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.

Classic "Blacksploitation" Movies
Alternative Movies and Events

Price: $5 per movie, or $8 for both
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

In honor of Black History month, AM&E is proud to present two exciting Blacksploitation movies during one fun-filled Friday night on Feb 22nd. First up at 8:30pm, the campy horror thriller Dr Black, Mr Hyde. Then at 10:00pm, we follow it with the all-time martial arts classic Black Belt Jones. Both are unavailable on DVD and are rarely seen on a big screen so don't miss this memmorable event!

In Dr Black, Mr Hyde, starring Bernie Casey and Rosalind Cash, an African-American scientist develops a formula to regenerate dying liver cells, but it has the unfortunate after-effect of turning him into an albino vampire with a mania for killing prostitutes. A tough police lieutenant investigating the murders discovers the existence of the duel-personality killer, and determines to take him down.

Black Belt Jones stars Jim Kelly from Enter the Dragon. The Mafia wants to buy Pop's downtown karate studio in an area planned for redevelopment. They get Pinky and his thugs to pressure Pop into selling, but accidentally kill him. The karate students call the kung-fu expert, Black Belt Jones, for help. Pop's daughter, Sydney, refuses to sell the building. Black Belt Jones and Sydney, who is also a martial arts expert, ward off the attackers.

Solo Piano Recital
Onondaga Community College
Featuring Dr. Kevin Moore

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Shattered Silence: A Benefit Concert
Spark Contemporary Art Space

Price: $6, $9
Spark Contemporary Art Space
1005 E. Fayette St., Syracuse

"Right now there's a war taking place in the heart of Africa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and more people have died there than in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Darfur combined." -60 Minutes

Learn more and shatter the silence imposed on these people. Help us raise money for the City of Joy at Panzi Hospital in conjunction with V-day and Unicef.

Featuring music from DJ A-ko, Minutes Per Second, White After Labor Day, Akuma Roots, and Magic Hour

Poets Randall Horton and Jeffrey Ethan Lee
Downtown Writer's Center

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Randall Horton is a former editor of Warpland: A Journal of Black Literature and Ideas (Fall 2005) and co-editor of Fingernails Across the Chalkboard (Third World Press, 2006). He is a Cave Canem fellow, and author of the poetry collection The Definition of Place (Main Street Rag Publications).

Jeffrey Ethan Lee is the author of the poetry collections identity papers (Ghost Road Press, 2006), invisible sister (Many Mountains Moving Press, 2004) and The Sylf (2003), which was the winner of the Sow's Ear Poetry Review Chapbook prize, and Strangers in a Homeland (Ashland Poetry Press chapbook, 2001).

Anton in Show Business
LeMoyne College
Boot and Buskin Theater Group
Anjalee Nadkarni, director

Price: $12 regular, $8 seniors, $4 students
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A savvy, savage backstage comedy by Jane Martin. In it, Anton skewers incompetent producers, idiot directors, surgically beautified actors, crass sponsors, self-important critics, and satirizes, celebrates, and challenges the importance of theatre as an art form today.

Winner of the 2001 American Theatre Critics Steinberg New Play Award.

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Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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Arabian Nights
Syracuse University Drama Department
Lisa Anne Porter, director

Price: $15 regular, $13 students/seniors
Storch Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Arabian Nights, by Mary Zimmerman, celebrates the powers of storytelling as the play follows Scheherezade, bride of the caliph Shahryar, as she uses her narrative skills to postpone her execution by telling the caliph elaborate stories. The caliph, having been cheated on by his first wife, now beds and murders a different virgin every night. Scheherezade tries to evade this fate through her spellbinding powers of tale telling.

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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, February 23, 2008

Annual Scholastic Art Awards
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Scholastic Art is the largest juried art show for Junior and Senior high school students in Central New York. Covering a 13-county region, more than 5,000 pieces are submitted each year and over 1,200 winning pieces will be on display in the Whitney Applied Technology Center for six weeks following the awards ceremony. The work of Gold Key recipients is sent on to New York City for national consideration.

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

Price: Free
YMCA Downtown
340 Montgomery St., Syracuse

The Artistic Domain
Delavan Art Gallery

Delavan Art Gallery
501 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Featuring paintings by Sharon Gordon, encaustic paintings by Lew Graham, etchings and oil paintings by James Skvarch and works by artists in Stone Canoe, a journal of arts and ideas from Upstate New York.

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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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.

Paintings, Drawings and Monotypes: Works of Anne Novado Cappuccilli
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.

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.

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.

Graduate Composition Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Diego Davidenko, composer

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

Russian Recital
Luba Lesser, mezzo-soprano; Maryna Mazhukhova, piano

Price: Free, but donation appreciated
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Vocal works of Rachmaninoff, Borodin, Cui, Rimsky-Korsakoff, Medtner, and Tchaikovsky, and others.

For more information, phone 315-256-8528.

Popular Culture
Paul Robeson Performing Arts Company
Featuring saxophone sensation J. Anton Boykin, the PRPAC "Ladies of Song," percussionist Michael Wimberly, and the Forces of Nature dancers

Price: $10 regular, $5 students/seniors
CFAC Black Box Theater
805 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

At only age 18, J. Anton Boykin, is already affectionately known as the "Sax Sensation." J. executes his amazing musical talents on the soprano, alto and tenor saxophones. Since the age of 10, he has been mastering the craft and his talents have taken him from his hometown in Riverside, California all the way to China and many other places in between. Some of his appearances and accolades include opening for Grammy Award winner Shirley Caesar, Stellar/Dove Award winner Martha Munizzi and world renowned Harry Belafonte just to name a few. J's debut album, My Name Is J, was released in early 2007 and is an eclectic mix of gospel, smooth jazz, Latin, and R & B. The album demonstrates Mr. Boykin's God-given gift as an instrumentalist and exposes his ability as a composer.

A classical and contemporary trained percussionist and composer, Michael Wimberly holds both a BA in Music from Baldwin Wallace Conservatory and an MA in Music from Manhattan School of Music. Michael has created commissioned scores for some of New Yorks most acclaimed dance companies including Alvin Ailey American dance Theater, The Joffrey Ballet, and Philadanco.

Dusty Pascal and the Tipp Hillbillies
Redhouse

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Dusty Pascal's high energy show is one to not be missed. He will be joined by the Tipp Hillbillies. Dusty's earthy delivery blends folk, rock and Americana styles. In 2006, Pascal released his critically acclaimed CD entitled Home: The Loren Barrigar Sessions, which was nominated for a SAMMY Award for Best Country Recording.

This show will be filmed live with Redhouse's HD cameras and made into a DVD available to the general public.

Stone Canoe Writers Series: Thom Ward
Delavan Art Gallery

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

Thom Ward is an editor at BOA Editions, based in Rochester, NY. Among his poetry publications are Small Boat with Oars of Different Size and Various Orbits, both from Carnegie Mellon University Press. Though he has some facility in paddling a small boat, it would be exceedingly difficult for him to keep a stone canoe afloat. Luckily, he can swim.

The Princess and the Pea
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

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

Interactive comedy.

Doubt
Syracuse Stage
M Burke Walker , director

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

A Bronx Catholic school, 1964, is the setting for this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama. Sister Aloysius is certain the popular Father Flynn is guilty of "improper contact" with a young student. She has no evidence. She has no doubt, and so proceeds to accuse him and threaten him unless he resigns. Is she protecting the children in her care, or is she engaged in an unfair persecution of a wrongly accused man? Playwright John Patrick Shanley offers no easy answer in this taut and gripping drama.

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