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Visit the Shop in the Seymour H. Knox Building for all things AKG! From exclusive exhibition merchandise to collaborations with local businesses, there is something for everyone.
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Members' Preview of "Steina: Playback"

Join us for the Members' Preview of Steina: Playback on Thursday, March 13, in the Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building.
Learn & Create
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Located adjacent to the Wilson Town Square in the Knox Building, Creative Commons is a free, active space for ages five and up designed to help you create, share, and connect through fun and playful experiences with art! Admission to the Knox Building is always FREE.
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Hi-Vis: Ten Years of Public Art

Check out Hi-Vis: Ten Years of Public Art—a documentary that features reflective interviews with AKG Curator of Public Art Aaron Ott and many of the artists who have worked with the Public Art Initiative over the past ten years.
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Bruce Nauman

American, born 1941

Artist Bruce Nauman at the Members' Preview for Bruce Nauman: The Mask to Cover the Need of Human Companionship on September 27, 1976. Image courtesy of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery Digital Assets Collection and Archives, Buffalo, New York.

Works by This Artist

Walking in an Exaggerated Manner Around the Perimeter of a Square, 1967-1968

Bruce Nauman
The Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio, 1997

Jasper Johns, Ellsworth Kelly, Joseph Kosuth, Roy Lichtenstein, Bruce Nauman, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Edward Ruscha, Richard Serra, Hans Namuth
Studies for Holograms (a-e), 1970

Bruce Nauman
(a) pinched lips, 1970

Bruce Nauman
(b) pulled lower lip, 1970

Bruce Nauman
(d) pulled neck, 1970

Bruce Nauman
Untitled, 1965

Bruce Nauman
Green Horses, 1988

Bruce Nauman
(c) pinched cheeks, 1970

Bruce Nauman
(e) pulled lips, 1970

Bruce Nauman
Life Fly Lifes Flies from The Leo Castelli 90th Birthday Portfolio, 1997

Bruce Nauman

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Related Artworks

(a) pinched lips, 1970

Bruce Nauman

(a) pinched lips

(c) pinched cheeks, 1970

Bruce Nauman

(c) pinched cheeks

(d) pulled neck, 1970

Bruce Nauman

(d) pulled neck

(e) pulled lips, 1970

Bruce Nauman

(e) pulled lips

Studies for Holograms (a-e), 1970

Bruce Nauman

Studies for Holograms (a-e)

(b) pulled lower lip, 1970

Bruce Nauman

(b) pulled lower lip

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