Join us for Happy Hours at Cornelia on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays!
Through January 12, 2026Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building
Join us on Saturday, August 16, from 10 am to 4 pm in the Wilson Town Square for a Sip & Shop event where local vendors will gather under Common Sky with their handmade jewelry, home decor, and more!
Submit to the 29th annual Art Alive! This contest invites participants to create living representations of famous works of art at the AKG for great prizes.
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.
Do you want to search the collection?
Friday, February 22, 2019
10 am - 5 pm EST
Explore the museum and discover different types of artworks through close looking. Bring your completed scavenger hunt to Guest Services for a prize!
Sunday, March 24, 2019
2:30 pm EDT
Buffalo Bills player Thurman Thomas will explore Humble and Human: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. and discuss his relationship with Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. and the greater Buffalo community. This event has been rescheduled from March 17 to March 24.
Friday, March 1, 2019
6 pm - 6:30 pm EST
Join us for a discussion of Humble and Human, an exhibition of Impressionist and post-Impressionist treasures from the collections of the Albright-Knox and the Detroit Institute of Arts in celebration of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.
7 pm - 7:30 pm EST
Friday, May 3, 2019
6 pm - 6:30 pm EDT
7 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
Sunday, April 7, 2019
2:30 pm - 3 pm EDT
Join Htein Lin for a discussion of his practice and his exhibition Htein Lin: A Show of Hands, for which the artist and pro-democracy activist has cast the hands of hundreds of former political prisoners, offering these individuals an opportunity to process the past by sharing their stories with others.
Friday, April 5, 2019
Join Director of Education and Community Engagement Jennifer Foley for a discussion of Htein Lin: A Show of Hands, for which the artist and pro-democracy activist Htein Lin has cast the hands of hundreds of former political prisoners.
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.
Saturday, November 10, 2018
11:30 am EST
Join artist Subodh Gupta for a discussion of his practice and work, including This is not a fountain, 2011–13, featured in the exhibition We the People: New Art from the Collection.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Join the Buffalo Chamber Players for a rare performance of Poème symphonique by György Ligeti in the 1905 Building.
6:30 pm - 7 pm EDT
Friday, January 4, 2019
Join us for a discussion of the special exhibition We the People: New Art from the Collection.
Join Assistant Curator Tina Rivers Ryan for a discussion of the special exhibition We the People: New Art from the Collection.
