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Vincent Gallo, he of Buffalo 66 and The Brown Bunny, will be at Soundlab on September 25th with his band, RRIICCEE.

We very much enjoyed Gallo's interview with Chad Radford, that can be viewed at his blogspot here: http://chadrad.blogspot.com/2007/12/thats-not-art-with-rriiccee-vincent.html.[parental advisory]

As for his music, here is an excerpt from Radford's take on Gallo: This is not experimental music made for the sake of experimentation. As Gallo explains, improvisation is not the right word for the group's brand of spontaneous composition and performance. "Improvisation means committing to a musical form or vocabulary," he says. "We're creating composition, which means we need to be conscious and reflec…

BRO Reader Submission

Submission by Lukia Costello who recently exhibited her work at the I Shot Lucy show.

I am an artist, and I understand how tiresome it is to be asked to donate your work. When we artists donate, we are really donating three times: with our materials; with our time and inspiration; and with our finished piece. Most times, beyond the gratification that comes with doing something kind and good, there is little in return with respect to exposure for our art. I have donated many, many times, so I know.

I have a different kind of opportunity for you. Please consider submitting work for the Family Justice Center 's (FJC) A New stART art auction. Instructions and an easy online submission form may be found at www.anewstartbuffalo.com.

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Wudenbachs

In a politically charged election year, many people become active who may have had no opinion or no sense of involvement since the last election cycle. In the time honored tradition of giant Papier-Mâché effigies stirring up the populace towards activism and art, Bread & Puppet Theater comes to Buffalo.

The Vermont based Bread & Puppet Theater is a politically charged group that encourages community participation and advocates a "cheap art" philosophy of inclusion in art and performances along with a literal manifestation of the bread by having fresh baked sourdough bread shared at each performance. Bread & Puppet comes to Buffalo September 10-13 2008 for a mini series of events & Workshops at Artspace and the WNY Book Arts Center.

Eli George

For Amy Taravella, this weekend means her solo in what took two years to accomplish. The artist has been working in an intensive two-week creation session with three other artists in four different cities in two different countries. Together, they have scrapped together funds to combine their talents and create a unique production based on the four humours.

The four humours was a theory of the makeup and workings of the human body that began with Greek and Roman philosophers. The humours consisted of black and yellow bile, phlegm, and blood. Each artist of this group represents one of the humours and last year, all four of the artists who stem from Buffalo, Chicago, Toronto, and Montreal, managed to make it to Toronto to create the first humour –also known as Jerry. For the first solo out of the planned four solos, they managed to all be in residence at the Toronto Dancemakers…

Eli George

Alt Theatre now has some company in the Great Arrow Building at 255 Elmwood Avenue – The Manny Fried Playhouse. The Subversive Theatre Collective has been bounced from venue to venue to produce plays and our proud to present this newly opened theatre as their permanent home. They will be celebrating with a Theatre Warming party on Friday, September 5th.

The Playhouse will be named after Manny Fried, the man in the photograph with this post. Fried is a Buffalo native who since the 1930s has been a force in the area. He was a union organizer and a writer, dedicated to social justice. He has written novels and essays, short stories and dramas, many of which encompass the way everybody is a human being, no different from anyone else. For his union activities and writings, he was blacklisted in the 50s and 60s and has spent his life knowing what it is like to live around political …

Sandra Williams Gordon

In the March issue of BR, an image was used for the article of the Buffalo Club that led to the introduction to Dr. V. Roger Lalli, and his photo-realistic watercolors of Buffalo.

At 86 years of age, Dr. Lalli is a dynamic and passionate supporter of Buffalo as both the great city it once was, and the new one he sees dawning. He seems particularly well situated to tell his Buffalo story through his artwork, his role as an educator, historian and impassioned supporter of the city he loves.

Lalli's life story could be written as a novel. Growing up in a family of musicians and inventors, he learned the exacting craft of making fine accordions from the age of 12. Lalli also worked as an auto mechanic, bricklayer, carpenter and instrument builder, as well as being a prominent semi-professional cyclist.

Lalli was recognized early in his life as having unique and special gifts a…

Eli George

Image: Antelope Headpiece with Basketry Cap, 18th Century 
(Bambara, Malli, Tji'Wara Society) 
Wood, plant, fiber - 
Collection Buffalo Museum of Science

The latest exhibit at the Albright-Knox will be one that takes viewers on a journey across the globe. It’s called “From Tusk to Tail: Animals and Art” and explores how different artists across the world have represented different animals. This is the second exhibit at the Knox that has been organized in partnership with the Buffalo Museum of Science, using sculptures from their extensive collection of ethnographic works as well as a number of examples from the Gallery’s Permanent Collection.

The exhibit was organized by Curator of Education Mariann Smith and is accompanied by an audio tour. Some of the interesting things at the exhibit will be animals from ancient Chinese tombs, magical d…