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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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Hi-Vis

Through Monday, June 9, 2025
Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building
Events
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Whiskey Pairing Dinner

Join us on Saturday, March 29, from 6 to 9:30 pm for a Whiskey Pairing Dinner! Enjoy a five-course dinner prepared by Chef Jessica Arends with Whiskey and Bourbon cocktails curated by AKG Front of House Manager Kevin Donohue, featuring Bardstown Bourbon and Green River Bourbon.
Learn & Create
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Visit Creative Commons

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.
Community
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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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Members get the best access to the AKG and special opportunities to create deeper connections with the collection. Enjoy unlimited free admission, guest passes, invitations to exclusive members’ previews and events, and more!
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Trace the evolution of the museum’s campus, from groundbreaking for our first building in 1900 to the opening of the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in 2023.

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Walt Whitman

American, 1819-1892

Samuel Johnson Woolf (American, 1880–1948). Walt Whitman, 1945. Lithograph, 14 3/4 x 11 3/8 inches (37.5 x 28.9 cm). Collection Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; Gift of Frederic P. Norton, 2000 (P2000:1.174). © Estate of Samuel Johnson Woolf

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At the center of the painting is a blue, eight-pointed star against a green background within two concentric circles of stenciled, all-capitalized text on white. The circle within the smaller of these rings is green, and the background visible outside the larger of these rings is blue. The text in the smaller of these rings is blue and the text in the larger of these rings is green.

Walt Whitman, 1926

Alfeo Faggi

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Walt Whitman, 1945

Samuel Johnson Woolf

Walt Whitman

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