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.
Through Monday, June 30, 2025Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building
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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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
7:15 pm EDT
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.
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Join us to celebrate the start of the Reel Talk series with a screening of The Letter: An American Town and the "Somali Invasion" (2003) in collaboration with Journey’s End Refugee Services.
Friday, February 1, 2019
7:30 pm EST
Please join us for a free screening of the Academy Award–nominated film Loving Vincent.
Friday, December 7, 2018
8:30 pm - 9:30 pm EST
Join us for this unique tasting to explore the regional cuisine, culinary traditions, and consumption etiquette of East Africa.
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.
5 pm - 7 pm EST
Albright-Knox Members are invited to join us for a Members' Opening for Humble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.: Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Friday, January 4, 2019
Dance your way into the New Year with a performance and lesson from Baila Salsa Dance Company.
Sunday, November 18, 2018
2:30 pm - 3 pm EST
2018 Future Curator Desanay Nalls will explore We the People: New Art from the Collection and discuss her artistic practice and her experience working with Mark Bradford on Five Buffalos, a mural for the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts.
Sunday, December 16, 2018
Join Albright-Knox Board Member Seymour H. Knox IV on a tour as he touches on the history of the Knox family’s relationship to the museum. Knox will highlight how various members of his family have helped to shape the museum and its relationship to the greater Buffalo community.
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.