In collaboration with Just Buffalo Literary Center, the AKG is offering sixty-minute, docent-led public tours based on themes from the acclaimed BABEL author talk series and the related books.
Through September 6, 2026Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building
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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum provides an unparalleled setting for your special event. With one of the foremost collections of modern and contemporary art in the world, the museum offers exclusive opportunities for you and your guests.
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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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Friday, April 12, 2019
7:15 pm EDT
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.
Thursday, February 28, 2019
6:30 pm - 9 pm EST
A River Changes Course (2013) tells the story of three families living in contemporary Cambodia and the hard choices they face forced by rapid development in the midst of a struggle to maintain traditional ways of life as the modern world closes in.
Friday, February 1, 2019
7:30 pm EST
Please join us for a free screening of the Academy Award–nominated film Loving Vincent.
7 pm - 9 pm EST
Please join us for a free public opening for Humble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.
Friday, January 4, 2019
Dance your way into the New Year with a performance and lesson from Baila Salsa Dance Company.
Thursday, January 10, 2019
In conjunction with Aria Dean, the first solo museum presentation of the artist's work, the Albright-Knox will host Dean for a presentation on her contributions to a larger conversation on the social effects of new technologies.
Sunday, December 2, 2018
3 pm EST
Please join us for the official lighting of the Albright-Knox’s traditional Christmas Tree and a concert of holiday favorites.
Friday, November 2, 2018
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm EDT
Join poets from Just Buffalo Writing Center as they respond to the work and themes of We the People: New Art from the Collection.
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Join We the People: New Art from the Collection co-curators Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director Janne Sirén and Assistant Curator Tina Rivers Ryan for a discussion of how some of the most important artists working today are responding to the contemporary world around them.
Saturday, June 1, 2019
12 pm - 2 pm EDT
Join us in celebrating this year's Art Alive, where participants create living representations of famous works of art for great prizes.