The Buffalo AKG offers fast-casual and full-service dining experiences at Cornelia in the Knox Building. Enjoy morning pastries with tea, coffee, or espresso drinks; stop in for fresh lunch offerings; or make reservations for our Thursday and Friday dinner service or Sunday brunch service.
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Join us on Saturday, June 14, for a celebration of music, community, and our neighbors to the North, featuring The Beaches with special guests The Trews and Menno Versteeg of Hollerado. Purchase Tickets
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.
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.
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!
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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Friday, June 7, 2019
7:30 pm EDT
Join us for this free screening of Love, Simon. From the producers of The Fault in Our Stars comes this heartfelt coming-of-age story about the adventure of finding yourself and falling in love.
Friday, May 3, 2019
Join the Bird's Nest Circus Arts as we celebrate the wonder within all of us; witness jaw-dropping stunts and be mystified by hoop dance, ballet, and partnered acrobatics.
Friday, April 5, 2019
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm EDT
Join Gay & Lesbian Youth Services of Western New York (GLYS) to hear about their ongoing programs, workshops, and resources for Western New York’s queer youth and their allies.
Thursday, April 18, 2019
4:30 pm - 6 pm EDT
Please join us for a celebration of the 2019 AK Teens: Future Curators Exhibition—Somewhere Behind, Somewhere Ahead—featuring artwork created by high school students from Western New York and Ontario, Canada, and organized by the 2019 Future Curators.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
5 pm - 8 pm EDT
Please join us for the opening of the 2019 AK Teens: Future Curators Exhibition—Somewhere Behind, Somewhere Ahead—featuring artwork created by high school students from Western New York and Ontario, Canada, and organized by the 2019 Future Curators.
This screening will feature a series of vignettes that relate and react to the work of Htein Lin, as well as highlight the depth and talent of Buffalo's young makers in the media arts.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm EST
As part of the AK360 Campus Development and Expansion Project, the Albright-Knox will be creating a brand new social space for Western New York to gather to share art and ideas with one another. Lend your voice to the conversation.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
7:15 pm EDT
Join the artist and poet Gerard Malanga for a showing of his short film Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks, which features extremely rare footage of his life inside and outside of Andy Warhol's Factory in the 1960s, and a reading of select pieces from his just-released book Cool & Other Poems.
Artist Kevin Beasley will discuss his work, including Untitled (hollow), 2016, which is currently on view in the exhibition We the People: New Art from the Collection.
Friday, April 12, 2019
On the occasion of the exhibition Htein Lin: A Show of Hands, join us for a screening of the documentary film U Htein Lin—Mr. Bright and Shiny.
Thursday, February 7, 2019
7:15 pm EST
On the occasion of the opening of Humble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr., join us for a conversation on Ralph C. Wilson and the exhibition.
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Artist Jacqueline Humphries will discuss her work, including One Cat, 2017, which is currently on view in the exhibition We the People: New Art from the Collection, with Chief Curator Cathleen Chaffee.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Artist Liza Lou will discuss her work, including Carbon / Solid, 2012–14, which is currently on view in the exhibition We the People: New Art from the Collection.
Thursday, May 23, 2019
6:30 pm - 9 pm EDT
In the thought-provoking documentary 13th (2016), directed by Ava DuVernay, scholars, activists and politicians analyze the criminalization of African Americans and the U.S. prison boom.
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Across the heartland of America, farmers and landowners are fighting to protect their land, their water, and their livelihood in what has become the most controversial environmental battle in the U.S. today: The Keystone XL Pipeline. Pipe Dreams (2011) is a documentary about this battle.
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Defiant Lives (2017) introduces the world to the most impressive activists you’ve never heard of and tells the story of the rise and fight of the disability rights movement in the United States, Britain, and Australia.