Wednesday, January 18, 2006

Visual Arts Showcase: Personal Best
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Special viewing arrangements can be made by calling the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's Advanced Curatorship students departed from the norm in that they chose works outside of an overall theme. The criterion for a work's inclusion was that they justify the reason it belonged. Objects historically important, artistically imaginative or emotionally evocative were all offered for consideration, their merits debated in lively discussions. Students tackled these questions in developing the exhibition: What is art? Why does it matter? How will we ever fill the gallery?

Students explored the vast collections of the Genet Gallery, Light Work, and the University Art Collection to discover objects deserving of a closer look. The result is an exhibition that ponders, promotes and unifies art across all forms. Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic is an eclectic exhibition, a celebration of distinct forms, styles, and statements within art and design.

For visits during the winter break, Dec. 10-Jan. 16, we recommend calling ahead. The Gallery number is 315-443-3127.

Thursday, January 19, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase: Personal Best
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Special viewing arrangements can be made by calling the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's Advanced Curatorship students departed from the norm in that they chose works outside of an overall theme. The criterion for a work's inclusion was that they justify the reason it belonged. Objects historically important, artistically imaginative or emotionally evocative were all offered for consideration, their merits debated in lively discussions. Students tackled these questions in developing the exhibition: What is art? Why does it matter? How will we ever fill the gallery?

Students explored the vast collections of the Genet Gallery, Light Work, and the University Art Collection to discover objects deserving of a closer look. The result is an exhibition that ponders, promotes and unifies art across all forms. Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic is an eclectic exhibition, a celebration of distinct forms, styles, and statements within art and design.

For visits during the winter break, Dec. 10-Jan. 16, we recommend calling ahead. The Gallery number is 315-443-3127.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

The Strange Case of Sheik Yerbuti
Acme Mystery Company

Price: $25.95 plus tax and gratuities (includes meal and show)
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive comedy/thriller.

Friday, January 20, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase: Personal Best
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Special viewing arrangements can be made by calling the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's Advanced Curatorship students departed from the norm in that they chose works outside of an overall theme. The criterion for a work's inclusion was that they justify the reason it belonged. Objects historically important, artistically imaginative or emotionally evocative were all offered for consideration, their merits debated in lively discussions. Students tackled these questions in developing the exhibition: What is art? Why does it matter? How will we ever fill the gallery?

Students explored the vast collections of the Genet Gallery, Light Work, and the University Art Collection to discover objects deserving of a closer look. The result is an exhibition that ponders, promotes and unifies art across all forms. Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic is an eclectic exhibition, a celebration of distinct forms, styles, and statements within art and design.

For visits during the winter break, Dec. 10-Jan. 16, we recommend calling ahead. The Gallery number is 315-443-3127.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

Folkus Project
Tim Grimm

Price: $10
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Singer-songwriter, actor, and hay farmer, Tim Grimm is somewhat of a modern day Renaissance man. Some of us may be familiar with Grimm's work last year with the Syracuse Stage production of The Grapes of Wrath. Grimm not only played three roles, he composed and adapted the music for the production. Grimm has also co-starred in the NBC series Reasonable Doubts and appeared in half a dozen feature films, including Clear and Present Danger opposite Harrison Ford.

Before his acting career, Grimm had made a reputation for himself as an up-and-coming singer-songwriter and honed his skills at the renowned Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, where John Prine and Steve Goodman are also alumni. After several successful years as an actor in Los Angeles, Grimm returned home to southern Indiana, bought an old farm not far from where he grew up, and began to write songs again.

Grimm released his country-folk album, Heart Land, to critical acclaim. Songs from Heart Land have won numerous awards including the John Lennon Songwriting Contest (country), the Great American Songwriting Competition (folk/country), "Best Traditional Folk Song" in the Just Plain Folks Music Awards in Los Angeles, and a nomination for an Independent Music Award (bluegrass/country).

Grimm's recordings have earned him number one-spots on both the Folk and the Freeform Americana radio charts. Recently, he has shared the stage with artists as diverse as Richard Thompson, Lowen and Navarro, Carrie Newcomer, and Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

Grimm is a musical storyteller, whether writing of his own journey back to the land, describing those who never left it, or honoring those who came before. Rich with descriptive details, these are songs sung with warmth and intimacy, recognizing the inextinguishable national romance with the idea of the family farm and the realities of the vanishing landscape of rural America.

For reservations email tickets@folkus.org or phone 315-440-7444.

Redhouse
The Umbrella People

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A keyboard, drumkit, and guitar, coupled with a spitfire of spoken word make for an eclectic, sonic sound that will keep your head bobbing. In January of 2003, The Umbrella People were formed from the ashes of a jam-band. Over the next two years the band went through many drummers and a turntablist before landing back with the original line-up of Joe Micheletti, Nick Mazzeo, Matt Cole, and Chris Frank.

Well crafted spoken word and unique sonic structures give The People room to roam in a musical world which they have created for themselves. They use keyboards, samplers, and electric drums to decorate a solid foundation of guitar, bass, and drums. The band maintains a busy practice schedule, constantly deconstructing their songs in order to achieve something fresh, tasty, and maybe even perfect.

The Umbrella People have received great responses from audiences all over the state. Venues played include the Haunt and Cataways in Ithaca, the Lion's Den and Tribeca Rock Club in New York City, the German House in Rochester, and Mezzanote Lounge in Syracuse. TUP has shared the stage with many bands including the amazingly talented Oshe and rulers of the musical universe Club d'Elf. They continue to thrust themselves further in to the limitless possibilities of Umbrella music.

Classics Series: Ravel - Bolero
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Valentina Litsitsa, piano

Price: $16-$50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cohen Juggernaut
Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F Major
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel Bolero

Read a review!

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $10 adults, $8 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A hit at the Edinburgh Festival, this new adaptation of the literary masterwork begins in a fogbound 19th century London with a nocturnal secret, and ends in the diabolical creation of an all-consuming alter ego. Told with imaginative style using two actors to portray Jekyll and Hyde, the GFT version reveals Stevenson's tortured doctor and illuminates the divided soul of Hyde.

Most appreciated by adults, teens and young people ages 10 and older.

Read a Review!

The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

Read a Review!

Watchin' Waldo
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Author John D. Smitherman will direct the production as well as perform in the role of John Douglas, who is left to care for the company as well as his boss' apartment while the boss is away. Things get out of control very quickly and the laughs are nonstop as John attempts to handle each ridiculous situation that is thrown his way while trying to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. Add a beautiful yoga instructor, her younger troubled teenage sister and an employee who doesn't speak English and you have the ingredients for a wild evening of entertainment for the entire family.

For more information, phone 315-475-9749.

Read a Review!

Saturday, January 21, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's Advanced Curatorship students departed from the norm in that they chose works outside of an overall theme. The criterion for a work's inclusion was that they justify the reason it belonged. Objects historically important, artistically imaginative or emotionally evocative were all offered for consideration, their merits debated in lively discussions. Students tackled these questions in developing the exhibition: What is art? Why does it matter? How will we ever fill the gallery?

Students explored the vast collections of the Genet Gallery, Light Work, and the University Art Collection to discover objects deserving of a closer look. The result is an exhibition that ponders, promotes and unifies art across all forms. Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic is an eclectic exhibition, a celebration of distinct forms, styles, and statements within art and design.

For visits during the winter break, Dec. 10-Jan. 16, we recommend calling ahead. The Gallery number is 315-443-3127.

Winter Landscapes and Gardens: Photographs by Linda Adlestein
Redhouse

Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

The art critic Eric Ernst remarked that in this series of photographs the viewer immediately becomes aware that, from an aesthetic perspective, the subtlety and promise of a garden in winter illustrates more about the space than one is aware of during its season of full bloom.

CMM/SSO Concerto Competition Preliminary Round
Civic Morning Musicals

Price: Free
Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Scholastic Instrumental Jazz Jam
CNY Jazz Arts Foundation

Price: $6 regular, $3 with student ID
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Aspiring jazz instrumentalists and vocalists can "learn the ropes" of public performance backed by the area's finest professionals. Play the tunes of your choice in a supportive atmosphere. All levels of experience are welcome!

Redhouse
The Umbrella People

Price: $15
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

A keyboard, drumkit, and guitar, coupled with a spitfire of spoken word make for an eclectic, sonic sound that will keep your head bobbing. In January of 2003, The Umbrella People were formed from the ashes of a jam-band. Over the next two years the band went through many drummers and a turntablist before landing back with the original line-up of Joe Micheletti, Nick Mazzeo, Matt Cole, and Chris Frank.

Well crafted spoken word and unique sonic structures give The People room to roam in a musical world which they have created for themselves. They use keyboards, samplers, and electric drums to decorate a solid foundation of guitar, bass, and drums. The band maintains a busy practice schedule, constantly deconstructing their songs in order to achieve something fresh, tasty, and maybe even perfect.

The Umbrella People have received great responses from audiences all over the state. Venues played include the Haunt and Cataways in Ithaca, the Lion's Den and Tribeca Rock Club in New York City, the German House in Rochester, and Mezzanote Lounge in Syracuse. TUP has shared the stage with many bands including the amazingly talented Oshe and rulers of the musical universe Club d'Elf. They continue to thrust themselves further in to the limitless possibilities of Umbrella music.

Classics Series: Ravel - Bolero
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor
Featuring Valentina Litsitsa, piano

Price: $16-$50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Cohen Juggernaut
Beethoven Symphony No. 8 in F Major
Saint-Saens Piano Concerto No. 2
Ravel Bolero

Read a review!

Unbridle that Mule
Open Hand Theater

Price: $9 adults; $6 children (members get $1 off)
International Mask and Puppet Museum
518 Prospect Ave., Syracuse

Join Open Hand Theater's showboat barker for a fast-paced showcase of Canal Era historical vignettes ... brought to life with puppets, magic and song chronicling the growth of the Erie Canal in Central New York. Featuring a rowdy cast of historical and contemporary puppet characters.

Hercules, the Maiden and the Lion
Magic Circle Children's Theatre

Price: $5
Spaghetti Warehouse
689 N. Clinton St., Syracuse

Interactive family show.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $10 adults, $8 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A hit at the Edinburgh Festival, this new adaptation of the literary masterwork begins in a fogbound 19th century London with a nocturnal secret, and ends in the diabolical creation of an all-consuming alter ego. Told with imaginative style using two actors to portray Jekyll and Hyde, the GFT version reveals Stevenson's tortured doctor and illuminates the divided soul of Hyde.

Most appreciated by adults, teens and young people ages 10 and older.

Read a Review!

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Gifford Family Theatre

Price: $10 adults, $8 children
Coyne Center for the Performing Arts
LeMoyne College, Syracuse

A hit at the Edinburgh Festival, this new adaptation of the literary masterwork begins in a fogbound 19th century London with a nocturnal secret, and ends in the diabolical creation of an all-consuming alter ego. Told with imaginative style using two actors to portray Jekyll and Hyde, the GFT version reveals Stevenson's tortured doctor and illuminates the divided soul of Hyde.

Most appreciated by adults, teens and young people ages 10 and older.

Read a Review!

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

Read a review!

The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

Read a Review!

Watchin' Waldo
Salt City Center for the Performing Arts

Price: $20 regular; $15 students/seniors
Jazz Central
441 E. Washington St., Syracuse

Author John D. Smitherman will direct the production as well as perform in the role of John Douglas, who is left to care for the company as well as his boss' apartment while the boss is away. Things get out of control very quickly and the laughs are nonstop as John attempts to handle each ridiculous situation that is thrown his way while trying to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. Add a beautiful yoga instructor, her younger troubled teenage sister and an employee who doesn't speak English and you have the ingredients for a wild evening of entertainment for the entire family.

For more information, phone 315-475-9749.

Read a Review!

Sunday, January 22, 2006

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's Advanced Curatorship students departed from the norm in that they chose works outside of an overall theme. The criterion for a work's inclusion was that they justify the reason it belonged. Objects historically important, artistically imaginative or emotionally evocative were all offered for consideration, their merits debated in lively discussions. Students tackled these questions in developing the exhibition: What is art? Why does it matter? How will we ever fill the gallery?

Students explored the vast collections of the Genet Gallery, Light Work, and the University Art Collection to discover objects deserving of a closer look. The result is an exhibition that ponders, promotes and unifies art across all forms. Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic is an eclectic exhibition, a celebration of distinct forms, styles, and statements within art and design.

For visits during the winter break, Dec. 10-Jan. 16, we recommend calling ahead. The Gallery number is 315-443-3127.

Society Music
Society for New Music

Price: $15 regular, $12 students and seniors
May Memorial Unitarian Society
3800 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

Sally Lamb Subito (premiere)
Syd Hodkinson Requiescant Elegy, 2001, for the victims of 9/11
Nicolas Scherzinger Fractured Mirrors, 2005
Patrick Castillo as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath, 2006 (premiere)
Eric Schwartz We the People, 2002

The Hilarious Hillbilly Massacre
Opening Night Productions
Bob Brown, director

Price: $22 ticket plus restaurant/bar charge depending on package chosen
Glen Loch Restaurant
4626 North St., Jamesville

The Birchbumble family, a wild and fun loving clan from deep in the hills of Tennessee, is having a family reunion and you, being a close relative, are invited! Everyone is promised a hog slappin' good time in this audience interactive murder mystery!

However, before the moonshine starts flowin', evil befalls the festivities. A barbaric IRS agent crashes the party and demands that the Birchbumbles pay all the back taxes they owe or the government will confiscate the premises immediately. The Birchbumbles don't take easily to threats, so the agent is bumped off. There's more murder and mayhem and lots of merriment as the evening progresses for the entire extended family  that means you! The Birchbumbles even stage their own auditions for a spot on Hee Haw. Talent like theirs must be seen to be believed!

Be sure to attend this long awaited reunion. It may be the last chance you have to party with
the IN-bred crowd.

Starring Bob Brown, Cathleen O'Brien, David Walker, Lynne Stanistreet, Becky Bottrill. Written by Peter DePietro, author of Clue, The Musical.

Reservations are necessary and can be made by calling the Glen Loch Restaurant at 315-469-6969.

There are two ways to enjoy your evening out:

The Complete Dinner Theatre Package includes show ticket and full gourmet dinner of your choosing off the Glen Loch Restaurant's delicious menu. Diners will be seated in the downstairs dining room and the meal prices will be determined by the regular restaurant menu. Those guests choosing to eat must be seated NO LATER than 6:30pm on Saturday evenings and 12:30pm for the Sunday Brunch. Cost: $22 theatre ticket plus cost of meal per person.

The Light Fare Theatre Package: In an agreement with the Glen Loch Restaurant, Opening Night Productions' patrons will no longer be required to purchase a meal with their theater ticket. The cost of the meal will be replaced by a $10 minimum bar/restaurant charge. This may be applied to appetizers, desserts, drinks and/or coffee. The total expense for tickets will be $32 per person.

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The Full Monty
The Talent Company

Price: $25 regular; $22 seniors/students
Empire Theater
New York State Fairgrounds, Geddes

"It was a night out for the girls...and a way out for the guys." The Full Monty is the Broadway smash hit musical comedy about six good buddies whose desperate plan to get their lives back together requires them to triumph over their fear, their nerves, and their clothes. The Full Monty is a "feel good" story of unemployed Buffalo steel workers who devise a scheme to make some quick cash when they see how much their wives and girlfriends enjoyed male strippers during their "girls night out". In the process, the guys find a sense of renewed self-esteem, how important friendship is, and how to have fun! Nominated for ten 2001 Tony Awards including Best Musical.

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Monday, January 23, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase: Personal Best
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Special viewing arrangements can be made by calling the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase: Personal Best
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Special viewing arrangements can be made by calling the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's Advanced Curatorship students departed from the norm in that they chose works outside of an overall theme. The criterion for a work's inclusion was that they justify the reason it belonged. Objects historically important, artistically imaginative or emotionally evocative were all offered for consideration, their merits debated in lively discussions. Students tackled these questions in developing the exhibition: What is art? Why does it matter? How will we ever fill the gallery?

Students explored the vast collections of the Genet Gallery, Light Work, and the University Art Collection to discover objects deserving of a closer look. The result is an exhibition that ponders, promotes and unifies art across all forms. Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic is an eclectic exhibition, a celebration of distinct forms, styles, and statements within art and design.

For visits during the winter break, Dec. 10-Jan. 16, we recommend calling ahead. The Gallery number is 315-443-3127.

An Evening with Chris Trapper of The Push Stars
Redhouse

Price: $10
Former Redhouse Theater
219 S. West St., Syracuse

Chris Trapper's songs have been winning awards as well as the hearts of devoted listeners ever since his arrival in Boston from Buffalo in 1991. He is most widely known as the frontman for the nationally acclaimed pop/rock band The Push Stars.

In addition to numerous Boston Music Awards, Chris Trapper received two Gold Records, a Platinum record, and the prestigious SOCAN Award twice for his songwriting work with Newfoundland's Great Big Sea. Antigone Rising covered his song "Waiting, Watching, Wishing" on their latest album release. His second solo release, Gone Again, serves up 11 new songs with a Dixieland flavor provided by Boston's renowned Wolverine Jazz Band.

This concert at The Redhouse will feature cuts off Chris Trapper's second solo CD, Gone Again, with Boston's own Wolverine Jazz Band providing the musical backdrop.

Faculty Recital
Syracuse University Setnor School of Music
Featuring Janet Brown, soprano; Carolyn Webber, mezzo-soprano; Deborah Coble, flute; Ronald Caravan, clarinet; Bonnie Choi, harpsichord; Ida Trebicka, piano

Setnor Auditorium, Crouse College
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Lester Trimble Four Fragments from The Canterbury Tales
William Penn Fantasy
Camille Saint-Saens Tarantella, Op. 6
Robert Muczynski Duos for Flute and Clarinet
Mozart Parto! Ma tu ben mio from La Clemenza di Tito

Parking is available in Irving Garage.

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Scholastic Art Awards Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Whitney Applied Technology Center
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

A vast exhibit of regional high school Scholastic Art Awards competition entries featuring multimedia, painting, photography and ceramics.

Visual Arts Showcase: Personal Best
CNY Arts

Price: Free
WCNY
415 W. Fayette St., Syracuse

Special viewing arrangements can be made by calling the Cultural Resources Council at 315-435-2155.

Ellen Blalock Photography Exhibit
Onondaga Community College

Price: Free
Storer Auditorium
Onondaga Community College, Syracuse

Ellen Blalock creates image-enhanced quilts to tell her family's story that stretches across seven generations.

Syracuse and the Underground Railroad
Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences

Price: Free
Bird Library, 6th Floor
Syracuse University, Syracuse

An exhibition that vividly portrays Syracuse's major role as a station along the Underground Railroad, titled "That laboratory of abolitionism, libel, and treason": Syracuse and the Underground Railroad, includes original artifacts from the Library's Special Collections Research Center and other institutions that document the flourishing of antislavery activism in Syracuse and surrounding communities from the 1830s through the 1850s.

The exhibition is presented in conjunction with this year's Syracuse Symposium lecture series and its theme of "borders." It is funded by the Kaleidoscope Project, a diversity initiative between the Divisions of Undergraduate Studies and Student Affairs to broaden the understanding of diversity and promote healthy dialogue about related issues at Syracuse University. The College of Arts and Sciences and the Warren and Edith Day Fund at Syracuse University Library have provided additional funding.

Special tours and school group visits may be arranged by calling curator William La Moy at 315-443-9752.

African Art Show
Edgewood Gallery

Edgewood Gallery
216 Tecumseh Rd., Syracuse

Digital Transitions: Selections from the Light Work Collection
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Photography Gallery
Schine Student Center, 306 University Ave., Syracuse

This diverse selection of work from the Light Work collection reflects important and dramatic changes in photography. It explores the new directions artists have taken in the brief period between 1990 and 2005. Many of these artists have experimented with digital techniques for the first time while working at Light Work. These images are hybrids of traditional and digital processes. Some artists go from analog to digital processes and even back to analog. Lines between the categories of analog or digital have been blurred and will continue to be. The boundaries will continue to dissolve and have less meaning.The classification of photograph, digital image, and new media will evolve and their definitions will change. This exhibition is a significant milestone at Light Work, as the first retrospective look at work by artists using various digital tools creatively. It is an enticing glimpse at digital photography's young history as we consider how new digital technologies redefine what photography can and will become.

Transmedia Photography Annual
Light Work Gallery

Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

Featuring work by transmedia students at Syracuse University.

East of Eden: Works of Pipo Nguyen-Duy
Light Work Gallery

Price: Free
Robert B. Menschel Media Center
316 Waverly Ave., Syracuse University, Syracuse

The images in the exhibition illustrate Nguyen-duy's ability to capture the interaction between nature and humanity in stunning large-format color photographs. Nguyen-duy's photography stems from the traditional style of landscape painting. According to Jennie Hirsch, Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellow at Princeton University, his "reliance on the natural world as a theatrical apparatus uncovers collisions between nature and culture, past and present, in carefully crystallized visions that inscribe themselves onto classical Western visions of the (un)natural world." Nguyen-duy's photographs hold references to mythology and history, and capture a thought-provoking vision of the American landscape and people.

Nguyen-duy's photographic style has been greatly influenced by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. Before the attacks, his work was more focused on the "back-story" of the landscapes he photographed, while his work now is focused more on reality and what is happening in the present. According to Stephen Borys, curator of Western art at the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, this work "shows us a landscape developing, changing, retreating and advancing -- a land of multiple hues and conditions."

Nguyen-duy is a photography professor at Oberlin College whose work has been exhibited nationwide. He has lectured at universities and museums throughout the United States, and he participated in Light Work's Artist-in-Residence Program in 2004. He has completed residencies in Vermont and France.

Aftermarket: Art, Objects and Commerce
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Interdisciplinary artist John Freyer returns to his native Syracuse for his first museum exhibition. The exhibit includes components of three different, but inter-related projects: his nationally renowned web-based performance piece, AllMyLifeForSale.Com; a new interactive installation entitled Walm-Art.Com; and Surplus, a sculpture/installation comprised of one-ton bales of surplus clothing. In addition, a twelve-foot rotating Bob's Big Boy sculpture, purchased by Freyer on eBay for the University of Iowa Museum of Art, will be on view in the Sculpture Court. Freyer was recently appointed as Visiting Professor at the University of Iowa, and a pilot of his Second Hand Stories continues to be broadcast by PBS, which is developing a series of the same name.

Student Art Open
Everson Museum of Art

Everson Museum of Art
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic
Lowe Art Gallery

Price: Free
Shaffer Art Building
Syracuse University, Syracuse

This year's Advanced Curatorship students departed from the norm in that they chose works outside of an overall theme. The criterion for a work's inclusion was that they justify the reason it belonged. Objects historically important, artistically imaginative or emotionally evocative were all offered for consideration, their merits debated in lively discussions. Students tackled these questions in developing the exhibition: What is art? Why does it matter? How will we ever fill the gallery?

Students explored the vast collections of the Genet Gallery, Light Work, and the University Art Collection to discover objects deserving of a closer look. The result is an exhibition that ponders, promotes and unifies art across all forms. Curator's Choice: Not Your Grandmother's Attic is an eclectic exhibition, a celebration of distinct forms, styles, and statements within art and design.

For visits during the winter break, Dec. 10-Jan. 16, we recommend calling ahead. The Gallery number is 315-443-3127.

Painting of Madeline Silber
Syracuse Stage

Price: Free
Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

In conjunction with the production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing, the gallery space of the Coyne lobby at Syracuse Stage is currently exhibiting nine paintings and four prints by artist Madeline Silber, a resident of Oneonta, NY, whose artwork has been widely exhibited.

"In my paintings I'm wrestling with the predicament of trying to find some balance within the precariousness of our contemporary relationships," Silber writes of her work. Silber's oil-on-canvas works show us representations of colorful orbs, bubbles and other rounded and curved shapes, achieving a three-dimensionality that seem to ignore the laws of physics and defy gravity.

Silber's technical process is one of "layering glazes, scumbling surfaces and developing forms slowly and carefully." She compares it to the "tending of human relationships: organic, fluid, and thoughtful."

Silber received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in 1983 and an MFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in 1988. After graduate school, she was awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Millay colony. More recently, she was the recipient of three Special Opportunity Stipends from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She has had solo exhibits at the Munson Williams Proctor Art Institute in Utica, NY; Brink, Heather Marx Gallery in San Francisco, CA; The Hudson D. Walker Gallery in Provincetown, MA; and the Thomas Barry Fine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information, phone Lauren Kochian, promotions and special events manager, at 315-443-2709.

Traversing Landscape
Syracuse University School of Architecture
Featuring landscape architect Anuradha Mathur

Price: Free
108 Slocum Hall
Syracuse University, Syracuse

Mathur is associate professor in the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania and principal of the design firm Mathur/da Cunha. Her firm received the Young Architects award in 2000 from the Architectural League of New York. She is co-author of Mississippi Floods: Designing a Shifting Landscape (Yale University Press, 2001), and her awarded projects are part of a publication by Princeton Architectural Press and the Architectural League titled Second Nature (2001). Mathur's work is directed toward design and the representation of landscapes as shifting and dynamic. She is currently investigating the landscape of the Deccan Plateau in South India, providing the basis for an innovative design strategy for the city of Bangalore.

For more information, contact Mary Kate O'Brien at 315-443-2388 or mcobrien@syr.edu.
For information on public parking at The Warehouse, phone 315-443-8238.

Rumpelstiltzkin: Straw into Gold
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor

Price: Students $3.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Composer/conductor Grant Cooper spins a tale of different styles in this interactive kids' concert.

Rumpelstiltzkin: Straw into Gold
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra
Grant Cooper, conductor

Price: Students $3.50
Crouse Hinds Concert Theater, Mulroy Civic Center
411 Montgomery St., Syracuse

Composer/conductor Grant Cooper spins a tale of different styles in this interactive kids' concert.

Civic Morning Musicals
CMM/SSO Youth Concerto Competition Finalists

Price: Free
Hosmer Auditorium, Everson Museum
401 Harrison St., Syracuse

The Real Thing
Syracuse Stage
Robert Moss, director

Archbold Theater, Syracuse Stage
820 E. Genesee St., Syracuse

About words: "If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little," but will that help you understand love? Such is the puzzle confronting the urbane and oh-so-clever playwright Henry in this, perhaps, the most moving and sexiest of Tom Stoppard's bright plays. Part love story, part exploration of creativity, and part comic celebration of pop music, The Real Thing veers between reality and illusion as Henry navigates the tricky emotional waters of marriage and infidelity. Replete with vintage Stoppard wit, humor and dead-on observations, The Real Thing fulfills all that its title implies.

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