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Abstract Expressionism: The Critical Developments was the highlight of a year-long celebration of the 125th anniversary of the founding of The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy.

Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculpture featured thirty-eight sculptures created during the preceding decade by Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Joel Fisher, Nancy Graves, Martin Puryear, Judith Shea, James Surls, and Robert Therrien.

The Wayward Muse: A Historical Survey of Painting in Buffalo paid tribute to the quality, diversity, and uniqueness of artists who have worked in Buffalo.

Modern Masters from the Permanent Collection was the first exhibition of the Albright-Knox's 125th anniversary year. It highlighted the remarkable artistic achievements of more than a century.

This first solo exhibition of Francesco Clemente's art in the United States surveyed the prodigious body of work created by the artist between 1979 and 1983.

Beverly Pepper: Sculpture in Place is the first major U.S. touring exhibition of the work of this important contemporary sculptor. 

In this exhibition, General Idea presented farcical mythologies on the changing sets of the fictitious “1984 Miss General Idea Pavilion,” including humorous adaptations of the hierarchal symbolism of heraldry and historicisms.

Anish Kapoor's elegant and mysterious sculptures, coated with intensely colored powdered pigment, suggest supernatural apparitions reminiscent of elegant architectural forms, exotic flora, and erotic shapes.

The 41st Western New York Exhibition consisted of 120 works selected by Juror Richard Armstrong, adjunct curator at the Whiney Museum of American Art, New York.

James Rosenquist: Paintings, 1961–1985, the first major retrospective of the artist's work in 15 years, features 45 paintings by one of the key figures in the development of Pop art.

American Graphics was one of three special exhibitions of works from the museum's collection that complemented Order and Enigma: American Art Between the Two Wars. It included a selection of works from the recent gift of 51 prints by Mrs. Jean C. Boyer.

The American Scene: Selections from the Permanent Collection was one of three special exhibitions of works from the museum's collection that complemented Order and Enigma: American Art Between the Two Wars.