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A museum experience transformed.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLuminous.\u201d \u201cMoving.\u201d \u201cSublime.\u201d Accolades for Buffalo\u2019s reimagined art museum and campus came in with sparkle, like the gallery\u2019s sheer glass walls that serve as giant windows to the new world inside: a three-story invitation to come explore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Worth every penny! The building itself is a true work of art,\u201d wrote a Trip Advisor reviewer who flew in from North Carolina to see the $195 million expansion and renovation of the former Albright-Knox Art Gallery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a three-and-a-half-year construction closure, the modern and contemporary art collection that one critic calls a \u201cnational treasure\u201d reopened with a new name \u2013 the Buffalo AKG Art Museum<\/a> \u2014 a striking glass and marble addition, generating an effusive, warm public embrace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The press gushed. The AKG \u201cseamlessly blends the tranquility of nature with the vibrant energy of urban life,\u201d reported the design magazine Designboom. For Steven Litt, art and architecture critic at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the AKG\u2019s revamp is \u201can utter delight,\u201d a riveting showcase of \u201cone of the best collections of its kind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum\u2019s unique take, Litt wrote, presents modern art as a narrative of \u201cthe avant-garde from the rise of French Impressionism in the 1860s to works by important living artists just now hitting their stride.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Wilmers Building constructed in 1905, was the original home of what was then called the Albright Knox Art Gallery \/ Photo: Buffalo AKG Art Museum \/ Marco Cappelletti<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The new landscape, renovation and architecture that emerged from the museum\u2019s century old bones now includes three connected buildings, each from a different era. The newest is the cube-like, three-story, glass and marble Gundlach Building, with its soaring, light-filled gallery spaces. Windows frame views, like paintings, and bring the surrounding Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Delaware Park inside. A sinuous glass enclosed bridge to the 1905 Wilmers Building shows off the grounds with the ripples of an elegant funhouse mirror. A sculpture garden that was part of the 1962 addition \u2013 now known as the Knox Building \u2014 was enclosed and dubbed the \u201cTown Square\u201d with a sparkling domed canopy of glass triangles called \u201cCommon Sky.\u201d A wide lawn can hold thousands for open-air summer concerts and hides parking that\u2019s been moved underground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The expansive, connected design \u2014 with free admission to the Town Square and adjacent public spaces \u2014 was intended as an invitation to the entire community, particularly to the very young, families, and people of color and others who might not have felt included at the museum in the past. The change is working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Gundlach Building Gallery \/ Photo: Sharon Cantillon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Village Series” sculpture by Simone Leigh \/ Photo: Sharon Cantillon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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“Common Sky”, a canopy of glass and mirrors, cover the Buffalo AKG’s Town Square \/ Photo: Sharon Cantillon<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Within the first months of the AKG\u2019s reopening, 100,000 visitors came, close to the 125,000 the museum used to see in an entire year. Ray Monde was one. The Seattle-based Australian paper collage artist bought a plane ticket here just to see the \u201cjewel box of amazing art\u201d that he first happened upon two decades ago on a trip to Niagara Falls. Puzzled about his latest trip, friends asked, Why Buffalo?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI said, \u2018because there\u2019s an extraordinary art museum,\u2019\u201d Monde recalled. \u201cI just remember seeing the collection of the museum and was kind of astounded by how carefully curated it was and how many masterpieces were in this relatively small building\u2026It was amazing to me that this city had so many.\u201d He didn\u2019t realize the museum had been expanded and transformed. \u201cIt\u2019s so much better than I imagined,\u201d said Monde. \u201cIt was the first thing we did when we got to town. We went straight to AKG. It was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Seattle-based artist Ray Monde on his 2023 visit to the Buffalo AKG: “It was beautiful.” \/ Photo: Nancy J. Parisi<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The well-curated art still captured him. Classics hold court with the new. A Matisse pencil sketch of Notre Dame, Picasso\u2019s \u201cLa Toilette\u201d nude posing for a mirror, Andy Warhol\u2019s \u201c100 Cans\u201d of Campbell\u2019s Soup, Jackson Pollock\u2019s \u201cConvergence,\u201d a white, black, red and blue paint splattered rebellion, share the space with thought-provoking recent works such as \u201cVillage Series,\u201d a sculpture of a woman with a grass skirt by Simone Leigh and Nick Cave\u2019s \u201cSpeak Louder,\u201d with figures draped in bedazzled black fabric with horn shaped heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis says to me that someone has really thoughtfully put together the collection to go, \u2018We\u2019re not going to rest on our laurels,\u2019\u201d Monde says. \u201cThe collage work by Deborah Roberts, I think is particularly important, especially with Black Lives Matter,\u201d he said referring to \u201cThat One,\u201d a 2018 collage of seated Black boys with sad, thoughtful, and hopeful looks. \u201cFor me it\u2019s a real reconciliation of how we can live together.\u201d The art of the buildings captured him, too. From the \u201cCommon Sky\u201d glass canopy to the bridge where he spotted kids delighting in the \u201ccurvy adventure\u201d walk between the Gundlach and Wilmers Buildings. The architecture, he said, was as well curated as the art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The museum also caught 9-year-old Buffalonian Leo Schwartz\u2019s attention. When he was out walking his dog, he looked it over and told his mother he wanted to go in. \u201cThe shine of the mirrors and reflections off of it makes it very cool,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Buffalo AKG’s Creative Commons is an admission free space that encourages creative play \/ Photo: Ed Healy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The museum\u2019s reimagining includes room for concerts, theater, and artmaking, among other programming. Across the white terrazzo floor, where Leo and family stood, kids and grownups were building bright block creations in the new LEGO Creative Commons. Nearby, people were settled in with wine and cappuccino at the in-house restaurant tables and corner lounge chairs. Visitors streamed in through the entrances, from Delaware Park and Elmwood Avenue. To Leo\u2019s mother Victoria Belniak, the vibe was European, sophisticated, and inviting. \u201cIt\u2019s very calming in here,\u201d she said as she paused to talk to a friend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As architect Shohei Shigematsu crafted the new AKG design, he weighed people\u2019s input from more than a dozen public meetings and integrated elements into a 21st century museum, which he says is an evolving concept. \u201cThe museum needed to be more open and also more undefined,\u201d he said at a gallery talk. \u201cThose things really inspired me.\u201d For Leo, the museum is an adventure. He liked roaming through different, connected spaces discovering art like \u201cJunk,\u201d the strange talking artwork with video close-ups of eyeballs and lips. \u201cAKG is an art destination,\u201d the visiting artist Monde said. \u201cI\u2019m glad we were here before the hordes arrive because it\u2019s an extraordinary space.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For more visitor information, visit buffaloakg.org<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Lead image: Buffalo AKG Art Museum – Marco Cappelletti<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A museum experience transformed.<\/p>\n

\u201cLuminous.\u201d \u201cMoving.\u201d \u201cSublime.\u201d Accolades for Buffalo\u2019s reimagined art museum and campus came in with sparkle, like the gallery\u2019s sheer glass walls that serve as giant windows to the new world inside: a three-story invitation to come explore.<\/p>\n

Worth every penny! The building itself is a true work of art,\u201d wrote a Trip Advisor reviewer who flew in from North Carolina to see the $195 million expansion and renovation of the former Albright-Knox Art Gallery. <\/p>\n

After a three-and-a-half-year construction closure, the modern and contemporary art collection that one critic calls a \u201cnational treasure\u201d reopened with a new name \u2013 the Buffalo AKG Art Museum \u2014 a striking glass and marble addition, generating an effusive, warm public embrace.<\/p>\n

The press gushed. The AKG \u201cseamlessly blends the tranquility of nature with the vibrant energy of urban life,\u201d reported the design magazine Designboom. For Steven Litt, art and architecture critic at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the AKG\u2019s revamp is \u201can utter delight,\u201d a riveting showcase of \u201cone of the best collections of its kind.\u201d<\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s unique take, Litt wrote, presents modern art as a narrative of \u201cthe avant-garde from the rise of French Impressionism in the 1860s to works by important living artists just now hitting their stride.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wilmers Building constructed in 1905, was the original home of what was then called the Albright Knox Art Gallery \/ Photo: Buffalo AKG Art Museum \/ Marco Cappelletti<\/em><\/p>\n

The new landscape, renovation and architecture that emerged from the museum\u2019s century old bones now includes three connected buildings, each from a different era. The newest is the cube-like, three-story, glass and marble Gundlach Building, with its soaring, light-filled gallery spaces. Windows frame views, like paintings, and bring the surrounding Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Delaware Park inside. A sinuous glass enclosed bridge to the 1905 Wilmers Building shows off the grounds with the ripples of an elegant funhouse mirror. A sculpture garden that was part of the 1962 addition \u2013 now known as the Knox Building \u2014 was enclosed and dubbed the \u201cTown Square\u201d with a sparkling domed canopy of glass triangles called \u201cCommon Sky.\u201d A wide lawn can hold thousands for open-air summer concerts and hides parking that\u2019s been moved underground.<\/p>\n

The expansive, connected design \u2014 with free admission to the Town Square and adjacent public spaces \u2014 was intended as an invitation to the entire community, particularly to the very young, families, and people of color and others who might not have felt included at the museum in the past. The change is working.<\/p>\n

A Gundlach Building Gallery \/ Photo: Sharon Cantillon<\/em><\/p>\n

“Village Series” sculpture by Simone Leigh \/ Photo: Sharon Cantillon<\/em><\/p>\n

“Common Sky”, a canopy of glass and mirrors, cover the Buffalo AKG’s Town Square \/ Photo: Sharon Cantillon<\/em><\/p>\n

Within the first months of the AKG\u2019s reopening, 100,000 visitors came, close to the 125,000 the museum used to see in an entire year. Ray Monde was one. The Seattle-based Australian paper collage artist bought a plane ticket here just to see the \u201cjewel box of amazing art\u201d that he first happened upon two decades ago on a trip to Niagara Falls. Puzzled about his latest trip, friends asked, Why Buffalo?<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018because there\u2019s an extraordinary art museum,\u2019\u201d Monde recalled. \u201cI just remember seeing the collection of the museum and was kind of astounded by how carefully curated it was and how many masterpieces were in this relatively small building\u2026It was amazing to me that this city had so many.\u201d He didn\u2019t realize the museum had been expanded and transformed. \u201cIt\u2019s so much better than I imagined,\u201d said Monde. \u201cIt was the first thing we did when we got to town. We went straight to AKG. It was beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seattle-based artist Ray Monde on his 2023 visit to the Buffalo AKG: “It was beautiful.” \/ Photo: Nancy J. Parisi<\/p>\n

The well-curated art still captured him. Classics hold court with the new. A Matisse pencil sketch of Notre Dame, Picasso\u2019s \u201cLa Toilette\u201d nude posing for a mirror, Andy Warhol\u2019s \u201c100 Cans\u201d of Campbell\u2019s Soup, Jackson Pollock\u2019s \u201cConvergence,\u201d a white, black, red and blue paint splattered rebellion, share the space with thought-provoking recent works such as \u201cVillage Series,\u201d a sculpture of a woman with a grass skirt by Simone Leigh and Nick Cave\u2019s \u201cSpeak Louder,\u201d with figures draped in bedazzled black fabric with horn shaped heads.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis says to me that someone has really thoughtfully put together the collection to go, \u2018We\u2019re not going to rest on our laurels,\u2019\u201d Monde says. \u201cThe collage work by Deborah Roberts, I think is particularly important, especially with Black Lives Matter,\u201d he said referring to \u201cThat One,\u201d a 2018 collage of seated Black boys with sad, thoughtful, and hopeful looks. \u201cFor me it\u2019s a real reconciliation of how we can live together.\u201d The art of the buildings captured him, too. From the \u201cCommon Sky\u201d glass canopy to the bridge where he spotted kids delighting in the \u201ccurvy adventure\u201d walk between the Gundlach and Wilmers Buildings. The architecture, he said, was as well curated as the art.<\/p>\n

The museum also caught 9-year-old Buffalonian Leo Schwartz\u2019s attention. When he was out walking his dog, he looked it over and told his mother he wanted to go in. \u201cThe shine of the mirrors and reflections off of it makes it very cool,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Buffalo AKG’s Creative Commons is an admission free space that encourages creative play \/ Photo: Ed Healy<\/em><\/p>\n

The museum\u2019s reimagining includes room for concerts, theater, and artmaking, among other programming. Across the white terrazzo floor, where Leo and family stood, kids and grownups were building bright block creations in the new LEGO Creative Commons. Nearby, people were settled in with wine and cappuccino at the in-house restaurant tables and corner lounge chairs. Visitors streamed in through the entrances, from Delaware Park and Elmwood Avenue. To Leo\u2019s mother Victoria Belniak, the vibe was European, sophisticated, and inviting. \u201cIt\u2019s very calming in here,\u201d she said as she paused to talk to a friend.<\/p>\n

As architect Shohei Shigematsu crafted the new AKG design, he weighed people\u2019s input from more than a dozen public meetings and integrated elements into a 21st century museum, which he says is an evolving concept. \u201cThe museum needed to be more open and also more undefined,\u201d he said at a gallery talk. \u201cThose things really inspired me.\u201d For Leo, the museum is an adventure. He liked roaming through different, connected spaces discovering art like \u201cJunk,\u201d the strange talking artwork with video close-ups of eyeballs and lips. \u201cAKG is an art destination,\u201d the visiting artist Monde said. \u201cI\u2019m glad we were here before the hordes arrive because it\u2019s an extraordinary space.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more visitor information, visit buffaloakg.org<\/p>\n

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