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20 Art Events To Take in This Fall

Art. It’s not just for looking anymore. An upcoming exhibit at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is about art for all the senses—hearing, tasting, smelling, feeling, as well as looking. Art that renegotiates the terms of spectatorship, is how it’s billed. The show is called Out of Sight! Art of the Senses. It opens November 4. Another upcoming show at the Albright-Knox is about how artists look at architecture. It’s called Window to Wall: Art from Architecture. It opens November 18.

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Fall Bird Migrations on Buffalo’s Outer Harbor

This past week has brought some spectacular bird visitors to the Outer Harbor of Buffalo.

Local bird observers have found really spectacular opportunities to view a wide variety of species of migrating neotropicals and shore birds from the Times Beach Nature Preserve to the Bell Slip. Some are rare.  The abundance and variety of species is one of the reasons that is a part of the Niagara River Corridor Globally Significant Bird Area. (IBA)

The Rise and Fall of Steve Pigeon

More than two dozen pictures of Gerald Steven Pigeon hang on the walls or rest on the tables and well-stocked bookshelves throughout his lakeside condominium. In most of them he sports a dark suit and brightly colored tie. In many he is standing next to someone of great power or wealth. There are pictures with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Barack Obama. Billionaire B. Thomas Golisano. Dick Gephardt. Ted Kennedy. Eliot Spitzer. Charles Schumer. Andrew Cuomo. Even Roger Stone, attending Pigeon’s 50th birthday party.

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