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.
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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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
6 pm - 6:30 pm EDT
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.
7 pm - 7:30 pm EDT
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
7 pm - 7:30 pm EST
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.
Friday, February 1, 2019
Friday, July 5, 2019
Friday, October 4, 2019
Join us for a discussion of the special exhibition Anthony McCall: Dark Rooms, Solid Light.
Friday, November 1, 2019
Join Curator of Public Art Aaron Ott for a discussion of the special exhibition Anthony McCall: Dark Rooms, Solid Light.
