Spotlights :  Spotlights
Hear the stories and perspectives behind the artworks from the artists themselves, museum staff, and other special guests.
Featured Voices:
• Miriam Bäckström, artist
• Firelei Báez, artist
• Sebastian Behmann, architect, Studio Other Spaces
• Olafur Eliasson, artist, Studio Other Spaces
• Anselm Kiefer, artist
• Janne Sirén, Peggy Pierce Elfvin Director
• Cathleen Chafee, Charles Balbach Chief Curator
• Holly E. Hughes, Godin-Spaulding Senior Curator for the Collection
• The Buffalo AKG Safety & Preservation Team (Jacob Thompson, Matt Connors, Marcellas Parker)
• Andrea Alvarez, Assistant Curator
• Chrissy Hart, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Together for Girls

Anselm Kiefer
German, born 1945
Die Milchstrasse (The Milky Way), 1985-1987
Diptych: emulsion paint, oil, acrylic, and shellac on canvas, with applied copper wires and lead
150 x 222 inches (381 x 563.9 cm)
In Celebration of the 125th Anniversary of The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, General and Restricted Purchase Funds, 1988
1988:6a-b
© Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer
German, born 1945
der Morgenthau Plan, 2012
Acrylic, emulsion, oil, and shellac on photograph mounted on canvas
110 x 224 inches (279.4 x 569 cm)
Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund, George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, by exchange and George B. and Jenny R. Mathews Fund, 2013
2013:6a-c
© Anselm Kiefer

Clyfford Still
American, 1904-1980
1957-D-No. 1, 1957
Oil on canvas
113 x 159 inches (287 x 403.9 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1959
K1959:26
© City and County of Denver / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Alfred Stieglitz
American, 1864-1946
The Street, Fifth Avenue, 1900-1901 (printed 1903-1904)
Photogravure
12 x 9 1/8 inches (30.5 x 23.2 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1959
General Fund, 1911

Lucas Samaras
American, born Greece, 1936
Room No. 2 (popularly known as the Mirrored Room), 1966
Mirror on wood
96 x 96 x 120 inches (243.8 x 243.84 x 305 cm)
Gift of Seymour H. Knox, Jr., 1966
K1966:15

Miriam Bäckström
(Swedish, born 1967)
Others Will Know, 2023
Jacquard tapestry, Trevira CS on Trevira CS warp

Studio Other Spaces, Olafur Eliasson, Sebastian Behmann
Studio Other Spaces: German, established 2014 Olafur Eliasson: Icelandic, born Denmark, 1967 Sebastian Behmann: German, born 1969
Common Sky, 2022
Painted structural steel, stainless steel, glass, and mirror foil
275 5/8 x 1094 1/2 x 1126 inches (700.1 x 2780 x 2860 cm)
Acquired with support from the New Carlsberg Foundation and General Purchase Funds, 2021.
2021:25

Paul Gauguin
French, 1848-1903
Manaò tupapaú (Spirit of the Dead Watching), 1892
Oil on jute mounted on canvas
28 3/4 x 36 3/8 inches (73 x 92.4 cm)
A. Conger Goodyear Collection, 1965
1965:1

Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida
Spanish, 1863-1923
Portrait of Charles M. Kurtz, Founding Director, Albright Art Gallery (1905-1909), 1909
Oil on canvas
40 x 30 inches (102 x 76 cm)
Bequest of Isabel S. Kurtz, 1991
1991:3

Albert Bierstadt
American, born Germany, 1830-1902
The Marina Piccola, Capri, 1859
Oil on canvas
42 x 72 inches (106.7 x 182.9 cm)
Gift of Albert Bierstadt, 1863
1863:1

Nathaniel Mary Quinn
American, born 1977
The Gray, 2021
Black charcoal, gouache, soft pastel, oil pastel, oil paint, and paint stick on linen
14 1/16 x 11 3/16 inches (35.7 x 28.4 cm)
Gift of an Anonymous Donor, 2021
2021:16

Firelei Baez
(Dominican, born 1981)
Debuting Chorus of the Deep (something ephemeral and beautifully whole, when seen from the edge of one’s vision, too full when taken head on), 2023
Mosaic, tesserae, glass
