Events

[ART] The news feed on your phone isn’t going to get any better any time soon, don’t forget to stop and smell the art that every day, and particularly, ever First Friday offers when area art galleries open their doors into the evening hours. As always, the Friday events are anchored by the Albright-Knox’s event where admission is free, although we highly recommend dropping whatever it takes to check out the Picasso exhibit on its last few weeks of display. We recommend you check our “In Galleries Now” listing for a full list and choose wisely, but two openings in downtown/Allentown which would pair well with whatever else your evening has in store are Edreys Wajed at WNYBAC (468 Washington Street) and Dale Schwalenberg at Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street). Wajed supplied us with this amazing centerfold a few weeks back from his upcoming show titled White.Lines.Matter. An emerging artist, this show provides a glimpse at an artist on the cusp with work that reflects and comments on our broader national discourse. Something of the opposite, but no less interesting on the surface, can be found in Schwalenberg’s Western New York Landscapes show. Schwalenberg’s photographed “landcapes” aren’t landscapes in the traditional sense, but dense micro-forest scenes that appear like they could have been taken either in Zoar Valley or behind the closest gas station, requestioning the role of “wildness” in the process. And there’s two openings on that same block of Allen: drawings by Patrick Foran matched with video work by Javier Sanchez at El Museo, and a Ten Year celebration and opening for Studio Hart. And in between the shows, if you’re braving the temperate air, check out the Queen City Gallery’s ongoing show inside the Market Arcade (617 Main Street).