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A Calendar of Special Events, Courses, and Performances
Part II - August-December 2006
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August
30 (Wed) through November 12, 2006: Julie Heffernan: Everything That Rises, Main Gallery/Second Floor, University at Albany Art Museum.
This exhibit will include 15 large-scale canvases by one of contemporary painting’s most skilled and visionary practitioners. Using traditional painting motifs borrowed from a range of art historical references including Flemish landscapes, 17th-century portraiture, and Rococo interiors, Heffernan’s paintings evoke the skill of the old masters, yet they belong completely to this moment. Her unpredictable and highly imaginative imagery speaks to her abiding interest in issues of gender, class structure, personal narrative, and art historical convention.
 September
Ongoing until Oct 8 (Sun): Our Town: Architecture in Art, a group exhibition, film, & lecture series curated by David Scher with David Deutsch.
Presented by HUT (Hudson Untitled Foundation), 330/336 Warren Street, Hudson, NY, 12534, 518-828-5883. This exhibit examines the work of 16 contemporary artists whose range of approaches to our built environment challenges us to view architecture with fresh eyes. The artists of Our Town shift our scale, delight us with their skill and imagination and remind us to pay attention to where and how we live. HUT (Hudson Untitled Foundation) is a non-profit art and exhibition space designed to service the community of Hudson, NY. The HUT exhibition space has been created within two buildings on Warren Street: one was a cinder block bar built in the early sixties, and the other is a 19th century building that was a boot emporium in 1854 and most recently was a VFW hall.
1 (Fri): University Libraries Student Competition. Architecture: The Art of the Everyday.
In conjunction with the year-long celebration and exploration of the architectural significance of the University at Albany’s Edward Durell Stone campus, competitions are underway for UA undergraduates to write a short story, a play, or a piece of hypertext fiction, or to enter the visual competition submitting digital video, or an interactive game. Submission deadline: October 10, 2006. Winners to be announced November 15, 2006. See our special link for more information.
 10 (Sun): Open House, St. Joseph’s Church, Ten Broeck and Second Streets, 1 – 3:00 p.m. Historic Albany Foundation.
Come and see the interior stabilization project, an exhibit about the history of the building and parish and hear about plans for the future.
19 (Tues) Flicker, Main Gallery/First Floor, University Art Museum, Artists’ Reception: 5 – 7 p.m.
Featuring five contemporary artists whose work references the ephemeral and contradictory impulses of the Baroque era. By reinvigorating faded stylistic conventions associated with portraiture, ornamentation, and architectural design, these artists explore how the vestiges of an era more heroic than our own continue to haunt the contemporary imagination.
21 (Thurs): Frank Stella’s Moby Dick: The Waves – 1985 to 1989 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.. Albany Institute of History and Art. Opening Reception.
The exhibition of Frank Stella’s large scale Wave prints – they measure more than 6 feet by 5 feet – gives a wonderful opportunity to experience one of America’s foremost artist’s encounter with Melville and Moby Dick. The prints are in Frank Stella’s well-known abstract style but also repeatedly feature imagery that can be read as a whale or a boat shape or other descriptive forms and allusions that leave the viewer free to explore narrative and its possible relationship to the text of the book. Each print is named for a specific chapter. Paintings will be on exhibit until December 2006.
 October
1 (Sun): Albany’s South End, A Conversation with William Kennedy and State Assemblyman John McEneny, 1 p.m. Co-sponsored by the New York State Writers Institute, and The Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS).
Albany's bard, novelist William Kennedy, and local historian and State Assemblyman John McEneny will discuss the historic districts, people, and events that figure so prominently in Kennedy's work. A walking tour guide of Albany's South End will be available for participants to follow immediately after the discussion. Kennedy's fiction, steeped in Albany's long history, has helped establish the city as a capital of the literary imagination. Kennedy is also the author of the acclaimed nonfiction book, O Albany! (1983), which is based in part on a series of Pulitzer Prize-nominated articles about the city that Kennedy wrote for the Times Union. The text of the walking tour guide O Albany's South End: A Walking Tour, which was first published in 1984, is partly excerpted from the text of O Albany!
State Assemblyman John McEneny has represented New York's 104th Assembly District, which includes the City of Albany, for the past 13 years. He is a former Albany County Historian, former chair of the Albany Historic Sites Commission, and became the first full-time director of the Urban Cultural Parks Program under then-governor Mario Cuomo. McEneny wrote and narrated WMHT Public Television's Tercentennial Documentary on Albany and authored Albany, Capital City on the Hudson (1998), the definitive text on the city's four centuries of history.
 2-8: Spill Out! Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company Residency, UAlbany Performing Arts Center.
A highly interactive artistic adventure, Spill Out! explores an interdependent merging of architecture and modern dance. The Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will be on campus in residency for the entire week of a variety of activities and performances (see below). This residency is presented by the PerformingArtsCenter, College of Arts and Sciences in association with the Center for Humanities, Arts and TechnoSciences. Funding support is provided by University Auxiliary Services at Albany, Inc. and the NYS DanceForce, with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program, Altria Group, Inc. and The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation. The free workshops to schools have been provided by a grant from Partners in Dance, a consortium of Capital Region dance sponsors.
3 (Tues): Spill Out! Open Rehearsal, Main Theatre, Performing Arts Center, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Free.
Come and watch the company in rehearsal as they prepare for performances of Spill Out! later this week.
 4 (Wed): Challenging the Limits of Architecture & Dance: A Conversation with the Creators of Spill Out!, Recital Hall, Performing Arts Center, 7 p.m., Free Admission.
Architectural designer Frances Bronet (Dean of Architecture and Allied Arts, University of Oregon) and choreographer Ellen Sinopoli (Artistic Director, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company) share insights into their latest collaboration.
5 (Thurs) & 6 (Fri): Experiencing Spill Out! Dance Performances, Performing Arts Center, 10 a.m.
Special performances for local high school students will provide the opportunity to explore an artistic environment that is unlike anything they have ever seen before. SPECIAL OFFER: The first four classes to reserve seats for one of the Spill Out! performances will receive a free post-performance workshop conducted by the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company at their school. More information is available at the PAC web site.
 7 (Sat) Spill Out! Dance Performance, Performing Arts Center, 8 p.m.
The Capital Region's premiere dance company explores the symbiosis of architecture and dance taking the performers and the audience to the extreme edge of discovery as the dancers "spill" over, under, through, around and deeply into an inhabitable installation. This large-scale, multi-media performance is created through a collaboration with choreographer Ellen Sinopoli, architectural designers Frances Bronet (University of Oregon) & Sid Fleisher (RPI), composer William Harper (Art Institute of Chicago), videographer Ralph Pascucci (Myriad Productions) and lighting designer David Yergan (Skidmore College, Lake George Opera). Presented by the PerformingArtsCenter, College of Arts and Sciences in association with the Center for Humanities, Arts and TechnoSciences. Funding support is provided by University Auxiliary Services at Albany, Inc. and the NYS DanceForce, with funding from the New York State Council on the Arts Dance Program, Altria Group, Inc. and The J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation.
7 (Sat): Homecoming Weekend, Bus Tours, Uptown Campus.
Join Geoff Williams, archivist and historian, University Libraries, on a bus tour of the five locations of UAlbany. Please contact the Office of the Alumni Association at 442-3080 for more information.
10 (Tues): ART AND CULTURE TALKS: Julie Heffernan: Everything That Rises University at Albany Art Museum, 8 p.m.
Please see August 30th listing.
12 (Thurs): Film Master Class: Architecture and Avant-Garde Filmmaking, Presented by Audrey Kupferberg, Department of Art. HU 039, 7:15 to 10:15 p.m
 Avant-garde filmmakers of the first half of the 20th century directed the eye of the camera to see urban architecture in creative new ways. Employing a variety of lenses and prisms, stark lighting and precise editing, these artists deconstructed, distorted, and otherwise abstracted real structures. This program will include short films and excerpts from feature films created by realist photographers, surrealist fine arts, and documentarians who were presenting new and striking interpretations of urban architecture. The program will include the following films: Manhatta (1921), directed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler; excerpt from Berlin: Symphony of a City (Germany, 1927), directed by Walter Ruttmann; Excerpt from The Man With a Movie Camera (USSR, 1929). directed by Dziga Vertov; Les Mysteres du Chateau du De (France, 1929), directed by Man Ray; and A Bronx Morning (USA, 1931/2), directed by Jay Leyda.
Audrey Kupferberg is a lecturer at the University at Albany where she teaches courses in film history in the Art Department. She also is a film and video consultant, archivist, and appraiser, and has been Director of the Yale Film Study Center and Assistant Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute. She and her husband, Rob Edelman, have co-authored several books, including Matthau: A Life; Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen; and Meet the Mertzes, a dual biography of Vivian Vance and William Frawley.
16 (Mon ): Opening Celebration of University Hall
Join the UAlbany community as it celebrates the opening of the newest building on the uptown campus – University Hall.
 27-28 (Fri & Sat): IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL FILM: A History of Capital District Architecture in Film,” Regional Film Festival, Linda Norris Auditorium, 339 Central Ave., Albany, NY.
Co-sponsored by CHATS and WAMC Public Radio.
28 (Sat): IF YOU BUILD IT, THEY WILL FILM: A History of Capital District Architecture in Film,” Regional Film Festival, Linda Norris Auditorium, 339 Central Ave., Albany, NY. Roundtable Discussion.
Join us as clips from movies filmed in the Capital District are shown and discussed round table style by Pulitzer Prize winning author William Kennedy, Assemblyman Jack McEneny, and other guests. Event is co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities, Art, and TechnoSciences (CHATS) University at Albany, The New York State Writers Institute, and WAMC Public Radio. A reception will be held before the roundtable discussion.
29 (Sun): TWEED COURTHOUSE: A Model Restoration, Albany Institute of History and Art, 2:00 p.m. John G. Waite, Senior Principal of John G. Waite Associates, explores the restoration of the Old New York County Courthouse – the Tweed Courthouse.
The Museum Shop Book & Author Program features FREE lectures on recent books of special regional interest, followed by a book signing. The author’s books are available for purchase in the Museum Shop.
 November
6 (Mon): Film Master Class: The Futuristic Celluloid City. Presented by Rob Edelman
7:15 to 10:15 p.m.,
LC 19
In recent years, state-of-the-art special effects have been employed by Hollywood to create dazzling, futuristic urban environments in scores of motion pictures. Production designers, art directors, and special effects wizards transform each film into a visual feast, with the special effects-generated imagery as much an element in the film as its plotline, character development, direction, performances, editing, and music score. However, futuristic celluloid urban environments not only have been conjured up in recent decades. They date to the silent film era—and some of the most memorable visuals may be found in Metropolis, Fritz Lang’s justifiably famous 1927 science fiction drama that is a classic of 1920s German Expressionist cinema. Metropolis is a cautionary tale which depicts a futuristic city as an environment in which scientific invention has created a partition between the powerful and powerless, and a sense of hopelessness among the masses of humanity. The program will consist of clips from several films which employ special effects to portray futuristic urban landscapes. It will conclude with a screening of Metropolis.
Rob Edelman is a lecturer at the University at Albany, where he teaches courses in film history. He is a film commentator on WAMC (Northeast) Public Radio, a Contributing Editor of Leonard Maltin’s Movie & Video Guide and several other Maltin publications, and the author/co-author/editor of and contributor to several dozen books. His most recent film/television-related biographies are Matthau: A Life and Meet the Mertzes, a double biography of I Love Lucy’s William Frawley and Vivian Vance. Both are co-authored with Audrey Kupferberg.
 7 (Tues): Lecture and Slides: Nina Rappaport, Architectural Journalist in Residence, University Art Museum. Ms. Rappaport will discuss green architecture – environmentally friendly buildings.
Nina Rappaport is an architectural writer, editor, and curator. She is currently editor of publications at the Yale School of Architecture, is an adjunct professor at City College School of Architecture, and is the lead Design Trust Fellow working on a study to connect the arts to the mix in Long Island City, New York. Rappaport received her Masters in History of Architecture from the Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Science, was Director of the Sunnyside Foundation in Queens. She is a freelance architectural critic for both European and American magazines. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS), the Journalism Program, the University Art Museum, and made possible by a grant from the University Auxiliary Services.
4 (Sat): VACANCY: Albany’s Abandoned Buildings through Artist’s Eyes.
Join the Historic Albany Foundation for the 5th Annual Art Exhibit and Silent Auction to benefit the Foundation’s Vacant Building Initiative.
17-18 (Fri & Sat): Self-Guided Tour of Herman Melville’s Albany.
Part of the “Why Melville Matters Now” symposium co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS), University at Albany and The Albany Academy and Albany Academy for Girls. This self-guided tour of Herman Melville’s Albany includes information about his homes not only in Albany but also in Lansingburg, and Pittsfield, MA. Brochures will be available as part of a special celebration of Herman Melville, alumnus of The Albany Academy. The weekend’s activities include the academic symposium, art exhibits, archival exhibits, and a special 24-hour marathon reading of Moby Dick.
19 (Sun): Frank Stella and The Waves, Albany Institute of History and Art, 2 p.m.
Melville scholar Robert K. Wallace discusses Frank Stella’s paintings “The Waves.” Robert K. Wallace recently published book,” Frank Stella’s Moby Dick: Words and Shapes,” is the fruit of more than eight years of research and collaboration with the artist. Part of the “Why Melville Matters Now” symposium co-hosted by the Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS), UAlbany, and The Albany Academy and Albany Academy for Girls. Paintings will be on exhibit through December 2006.
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The Purple Path Exhibit: The Fall 2005 Master’s of Urban and Regional Planning Studio, Geography and Planning, concentrated on developing a multi-use pathway. This will be a purple 5k loop around the inner perimeter of the campus ring road. The new facility will help humanize the campus by offering students, faculty and stuff a great place to run, walk and bike in a scenic and educational environment. The Path will also provide needed connections to local neighborhoods and retail establishments as well as regional transportation networks.
UAlbany Planning Studio: Join Geography and Planning students, professors, and staff as they work in a charette experience as a team in an intense, on-the-spot effort to project the uptown campus of the future.
A Celebration of Edward Durell Stone, Uptown Campus Architect: will include the opening of a permanent exhibit and brochure.
Albany Architects Book (Mount Ida Press): Previous publication is currently being updated by Historic Albany Foundation and Mount Ida Press in conjunction with the Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS) and the University Libraries.
Mini Film Series exploring the relationship between architecture and film. Co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS) and the University Libraries, Special Archives.
Panel Discussion by Campus Architects: Panel of architects who designed buildings on the uptown campus. Co-sponsored by Architecture and Engineering Construction Management, University at Albany and the Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences.
An Archive of Past Events, Courses, and Performances from Architecture at Albany
Part I - January-August 2006
January
24 (Tues) - April 9 (Sun): The Space Between Us
University Art Museum
This exhibition features the work of eight artists who explore a range of spatial circumstances inspired by familiar interiors and the surrounding architecture. Working in video, painting, drawing, and installation, Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua, Dawn Clements, Richard Garrison, Mark Greenwold, Oliver Michaels, Fabien Rigobert, and Mary Temple share an affinity for overlooked spaces (real or imagined). Through a combination of acute observation, persistent research, and elaborate fabrication, their personal readings of a given space reveal that the space between us is rarely what it first appears.
24 (Tues) - April 9 (Sun): Perspective: Apertures in Architecture
University Art Museum, West Gallery, Curated by Julie Maliszewski, Milton and Sally Avery Foundation Intern
 This exhibition features 17 works on paper, selected from the Art Collection at the University Art Museum, in which common architectural elements such as doors, windows, or passageways serve as the emotional entry points of a given pictorial space. Artists include Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Joyce Campbell, Craig Denis, Wallace Dreyer, Andreas Feininger, Richard Florsheim, Anna Gaskell, Pam Hollinde, Scott Hyde, Marta Jaremko, Wolf Kahn, Jerome Liebling, Joel Meyerowitz, Denise Rehm, Judi Rodman, Edward Steichen and Pete Turner.
29 (Sun): John Pipkin: Clearing the Moral High Ground: Washington Park, 1855-1875
Albany Institute of History and Art, 2:00 p.m. (free, with admission to museum)
John Pipkin, Professor of Geography and Planning, University at Albany, will present a lecture commemorating the Bicentennial of Albany's Washington Park. Dr. Pipkin will illuminate the ways in which the 19th Century park movement grew in reaction to urban industrialization and how that was reflected in the formation of Albany's Washington Park. He will discuss the influence of Frederick Law Olmstead, the various civic factions and their concepts of what the park should be, and how the park guided the development of the city. Pipkin is an urban geographer with interests in public space, urban design, and 19th century landscapes.
30 - February 4th: UAlbany Habitat for Humanity Week
30 (Mon): UAlbany Habitat for Humanity, UAlbany Night at Pizzeria Uno, Crossgates Mall, 5-9 p.m.
Enjoy dinner with friends and family and have a portion of your total bill go to Habitat! Printable vouchers available on the Habitat for Humanity Web Site.
31 (Tues): UAlbany Habitat for Humanity, DANE-O, Campus Center Ballroom, 7-10 p.m.
Bingo for Great Danes; buy your card & play to win raffle tickets for several great prizes: iPod, DVD players, TV's and more - all for a good cause.
 February
1 (Wed): UAlbany Habitat for Humanity, UAlbany Night at Friendly's, Crossgates Mall, 4-7 pm.
Enjoy dinner, say hello to our mascot and enter to win a gift card to Friendly's. A portion of your total bill will go to Habitat! Printable Vouchers available on the Habitat for Humanity web site.
1 (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm. James Bradburn '66 - "Architecture and Technology - A Volatile Mix"
2 (Thurs): UAlbany Habitat for Humanity, DAWGBALL II, PE GYM, 7 pm - Midnight
Dodgeball tournament back by popular demand! Organize a team of six people and sign up on the web to compete. There is an entry fee of $5 per person.
4 (Fri): UAlbany Habitat for Humanity, CANDY GRAM SALES, Campus Center Lobby, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
8 (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm. James Collins '77- "Strategies for a Problem-Based Practice"
22 (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm, Scott Wyat '72 - "Change Design" and Wei Wei Shannon '01.
26 (Sun): Warren Roberts: The Architecture of Washington Park
Albany Institute of History and Art, 2:00 p.m. (free with admission)
Warren Roberts is a Professor in the History Department, University at Albany. This program is part of a series commemorating Albany's famous Washington Park, which marks its Bicentennial in 2006.
March
1 (Wed): Installation artists Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua to speak at University Art Museum's Art & Culture Talks (ACT) Program - 7:00 p.m. University Art Museum - "drip to speak - breakdown..."
By Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua, Brooklyn-based installation artists, featured in The Space Between Us on view at the University Art Museum through April 9.
Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua live and work in Brooklyn, New York and have worked together since 1998. their solo exhibitions include Derek Eller Gallery in New York (2006); The World's Largest Bowie Knife at the Jack Pelican in Brooklyn (2005); The re-creation of Fort Comfort at Rice University Art Gallery in Houston (2004). Selected group exhibitions include Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh (2006); Set and Drift: Art Lands on Governor's Island at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in Governor's Island, New York (2005); Open House: Working in Brooklyn at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Brooklyn (2004); Relentless Proselytizers at Feigen Contemporary in New York (2004); and Clubhouse at Socrates Park in Long Island City, New York (2003).
 1 (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm. Peter Gorman '67 - "Designing Luxury Hotels and Urban Mixed Use Complexes" and Demetrious Comodromos '02
8 (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm. Richard Rittelmann '60 - "The Future of the Profession" and Martha Merzig '02
9 (Thurs): Architecture and Film: Science Fiction Mini Film Series, HU 039, 7:30 pm, "Metropolis" 1927, Directed by Fritz Lanz. Discussion Leader Dr. Mary Valentis
It is the future, and humans are divided into two groups: the thinkers, who make plans (but don't know how anything works), and the workers, who achieve goals (but don't have the vision). Completely separate, neither group is complete, but together they make a whole. One man from the "thinkers" dares visit the underground where the workers toil, and is astonished by what he sees...
Dr. Mary Valentis is the Director of The Center for Humanities, Arts and TechnoSciences and teaches film as a member of the faculty, Department of English.
 16 (Thurs): Architecture and Film Mini Series: Science Fiction, HU 039, 7:30 pm. Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott.
Set in Los Angeles, 2019, this sci-fi film classic features a police officer of the future who hunts down and terminates replicates, artificially created humans. The chronological setting of the movie and its urban location connect architecture in the form of LA and its urban environment. In a stunningly created setting, this film raises questions about the future, how it will be built and for whom it will be built.
21 (Tues): Vito Acconci, Pioneer Performance, Video and Installation Artist
ACT Lecture Series
University Art Museum, 7 p.m.
Vito Acconci is a pioneer in performance, video, and installation art and in the exploration of architectural space. Initially a poet, Acconci began making conceptual art in the late 1960's. Since then, his work has expanded art's boundaries beyond the gallery or museum into shared public spaces. In 1988, he started Acconci Studios and began his current practice of collaborating with architects to create projects integrated into public buildings, gardens, plazas, playgrounds, and transportation centers. Co-sponsored by The Center for Humanities, Arts, and TechnoSciences (CHATS) and the New York State Writers Institute. Funded in part through the generosity of the University Auxiliary Services at Albany, Inc.
22 (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm. Peter Bohlin '58 - "The Nature of Circumstance" and Emily Granstaff-Rice '99 - "The Nature of Metaphor"
30 (Thurs): Architecture and Film: Science Fiction Mini Film Series, HU 039, 7:30 p.m. "Dark City"
In this dark thriller, a man awakens to find that he is wanted for brutal murders he doesn't remember. Inspired by early 20th century German Expressionism, the setting of an underground city is revealed through stunning production designs and special effects invoking a cold and bleak society where the citizens cannot escape the influence of the environment that surrounds them.
April
 7 (Fri): Film Master Class: Architecture and Avant-Garde Filmmaking, LC 5, 3-6 pm, Presented by Audrey Kupferberg
Avant-garde filmmakers of the first half of the 20th century directed the eye of the camera to see urban architecture in creative new ways. Employing a variety of lenses and prisms, stark lighting and precise editing, these artists deconstructed, distorted, and otherwise abstracted real structures. This program will include short films and excerpts from feature films created by realist photographers, surrealist fine arts, and documentarians who were presenting new and striking interpretations of urban architecture. The program will include the following films: Manhatta (1921), directed by Paul Strand and Charles Sheeler; Berlin: Symphony of a City (Germany, 1927), directed by Walter Ruttmann; Excerpt from The Man With a Movie Camera (USSR, 1929). directed by Dziga Vertov; Les Mysteres du Chateau du De (France, 1929), directed by Man Ray; and A Bronx Morning (USA, 1931/2), directed by Jay Leyda.
Audrey Kupferberg is a lecturer at the University at Albany where she teaches courses in film history in the Art Department. She also is a film and video consultant, archivist, and appraiser, and has been Director of the Yale Film Study Center and Assistant Director of the National Center for Film and Video Preservation at the American Film Institute. She and her husband, Rob Edelman, have co-authored several books, including Matthau: A Life; Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen; and Meet the Mertzes, a dual biography of Vivian Vance and William Frawley.
12 (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm. Hugh Hochberg '67 - "Where Architecture is Headed: The Director and Future of Practice" and Emily Kotasfic '01 "Greene Pastures"
15 (Sat): John Stevens: Dutch Vernacular Architecture in North America, 1640-1830
Albany Institute of History and Art, 2:00 p.m. (free, with museum admission)
John Stevens, an architectural consultant, discusses the structural and decorative characteristics of buildings that survive from the period of Dutch settlement in America and that illustrate the Netherlands' building tradition as it was transplanted to the New World. Historic buildings in Albany and the Hudson Valley will be featured along with houses in western Long Island, Staten Island, northern New Jersey, and Canada.
19th (Wed): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005, Greene Gallery, 6 pm. Steven Ehrlich '68 - "Multi-Cultural Modernism" and Matthew Rice '99 - "D-Common Practice"
21 (Fri): Film Master Class: The City as a Hollywood Movie Set, Presented by Rob Edelman, LC 5, 3-6 pm
 The architecture of urban landscapes--the skyscrapers, bridges, and apartment buildings that are the manifestations of the urbanization of America--has helped to define the look and feel of thousands of motion pictures. This class will focus on the manner in which these landscapes have been represented in Hollywood movies: how urban vistas were re-created on Southern California movie studio lots prior to World War II, and why and how they were replaced by on-location filming during the post-war era. Also touched on will be the portrayal of architects in Hollywood movies, and the manner in which they often are idealistically depicted. The program will consist of clips from several films and a screening in its entirety of The Naked City (1948), directed by Jules Dassin--one of the first Hollywood films to feature on-location filming in New York City.
Rob Edelman is a lecturer at the University at Albany, where he teaches courses in film history in the Art Department. He is a film commentator on WAMC (Northeast) Public Radio and a contributing editor to Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide and several other Maltin publications. He is the author of Great Baseball Films, Baseball on the Web, and several children's books. His film/television-related biographies include Matthau: A Life; Angela Lansbury: A Life on Stage and Screen; and Meet the Mertzes, a double biography of I Love Lucy's William Frawley and Vivian Vance--all co-authored with Audrey Kupferberg.
23 (Sun): Sandra Baptie: The Washington Park Conservancy: Past, Present, & Future. Albany Institute of History and Art, 2:00 p.m. (free, with museum admission)
Sandra Baptie is the President of the Washington Park Conservancy. This program is part of a series commemorating Albany's famous Washington Park, which marks its Bicentennial in 2006.
28 (Fri): Classic Film Series, New York State Writers Institute, Page Hall, 135 Western Avenue, Downtown Campus
Antonio Gaudi
Directed by Hiroshi Teshigahara (Japan, 1984, 72 minutes, color, 35 mm, in Japanese and Spanish with English Subtitles)
Japanese Director Teshigahara (Woman in the Dunes) composed this loving homage to the architecture and landscape design of revolutionary Spanish architect and sculptor Antonio Gaudi (1852-1926), who found in nature the inspiration of his fantastical Art Nouveau forms. The documentary will be shown in a newly-struck 2005 print.
Santiago Calatrava's Travels (Die Reisen des Santiago Calatrava)
Directed by Christoph Schaub (Switzerland, 1999, 80 minutes, color, DVD, in German with English Subtitles)
This documentary explores the radiant geometries and dynamic open spaces, as well as the creative processes, of Spanish sculptor and architect Santiago Calatrava, best known for his railway stations, bridges, and airports. The award winning Calatrava was recently chosen to design the new PATH transit hub at the rebuilt World Trade Center.
 May
6 (Sat) Washington Park Bicentennial Exhibits
Tulip Festival, Washington Park, Albany Institute of History & Art
To mark the Bicentennial of Washington Park, the Albany Institute of History & Art will produce three exhibitions highlighting the history of Washington Park, the naturalistic Olmstead-designed pleasure ground that attracts thousands of visitors to its gardens, lake, tennis courts, and eighty-one acres of greenery. This project is taking place in cooperation with the City of Albany and is designed to complement the efforts of the Washington Park Conservancy. The exhibitions will open on May 6 as part of the Tulip Festival celebration and extend through September 30, 2006.
The Jabbur Gallery will feature Common Ground, an exhibition that traces the evolution of the open spaces from the 18th century to the present. Public open spaces were common throughout America, in large cities and small villages. The public grounds that eventually become Washington Park in the 1870s and 1880s, sat at the western edge of Albany an area also used during the 18th and early 19th centuries by several churches for burial grounds.
The Rice Gallery will house A Photograph Essay of Washington Park, featuring images from the Albany Institute's library collection as well as photographs collected from the community. From the late 19th century, when the planned park was in its infancy, till the present day, photography has captured the beauty and charm of Albany's renowned public space.
The Travel Panel Exhibition will include the story and highlights gleaned from the two exhibitions discussed above. This free-standing panel exhibition will be designed to travel in a van to a variety of public places such as City Hall, the Washington Park Lake House, schools, churches and other public spaces as required for years to come.
12 (Fri): 75th Anniversary of Architecture at Rennsselaer 1930-2005 "Architecture Birthday Ball" Rennsselaer Campus
June
June - December: Building the Uptown Campus: A Special Exhibit in the lobby of the Science Library. Curator: Geoffrey Williams, Special Collections
A special exhibit in the lobby of the Science Library highlighting the story of the building of the uptown Campus.
Please contact the Alumni Association for more detailed information.
2-4 (Fri-Sun): UAlbany Alumni Weekend
 3 (Sat): 10:00 a.m.: UAlbany Uptown & Past Campuses Narrated Bus Tour
Pick up will be in front of the Alumni House, Uptown Campus. Join Geoff Williams, archivist and historian, University Libraries, on a bus tour of the five locations of UAlbany. Please call Alumni House, 518-442-3080 for more information and to make reservations.
3 (Sat): 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Walking Tour of the Downtown Campus
Leaving from the tent on the Downtown Campus. See some of your old haunts and reminisce with alumni during this tour through the various buildings on the Downtown Campus.
8 (Thurs): Albany – The Past, Present & Future: From the Stockade to the South Mall to the Convention Center. OASIS course to be held at Avila Retirement Community, 10:00-11:30 a.m..
Assemblyman John McEneny, a noted local historian, will lead us on a journey from Albany's past life in the Stockade, then bring us to the present with our current South Mall, and then into discussion of the future. Fee $10. Contact OASIS (Older Adult Services and Information Systems) at 518-442-3913 for membership information and registration. OASIS is a national not-for-profit education organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for adults 50 years of age and older through challenging programs, and Albany OASIS is sponsored by UAlbany.
11 (Sun): Open House, St. Joseph 's Church, Ten Broeck and Second Streets, 1 – 3:00 p.m. Historic Albany Foundation
Come and see the interior stabilization project, an exhibit about the history of the building and parish and hear about plans for the future.
15 (Thurs): Hidden City House and Garden Tour, 5-8:00 p.m. Historic Albany Foundation.
15 (Thurs): Picture Perfect: Photographs of Washington Park , 5:30 – 7:30 pm . Albany Institute of History and Art
Stop in and celebrate the opening of this exhibit featuring images on loan from community members.
27 (Tues): A Stroll Through Twickenham, Historic Albany Foundation
The College of St. Rose and others along Madison Avenue from South Main Ave. to Partridge Street will open up their houses to show preservation efforts happening on this important Pine Hills block.
 29 (Thurs): Marietta Millet and Light Revealing Architecture, 10:00 am – 12:30 pm , an OASIS course to be held at Avila Retirement Community
Architecture depends largely on light, especially daylight. As daylight reveals the forms of architecture and the places made by it, it simultaneously reveals the meaning and the intentions that are released through the process of conceiving, designing, and building. Join Marietta Millet, Professor Emerita in Architecture at the University of Washington in Seattle , as she discusses the relationship between light and architecture. Personal experience is the vehicle for interpretation for both designers and inhabitants. Examples, drawn from the speaker's book Light Revealing Architecture, will be shown, in which light is clearly used to affect how we relate to buildings. Fee $10. Contact OASIS (Older Adult Services and Information Systems) at 518-442-3913 for membership information and registration. OASIS is a national not-for-profit education organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for adults 50 years of age and older through challenging programs, and Albany OASIS is sponsored by UAlbany.
July
15 (Sat): By Invitation Only. Albany's Modern Movement: Special Tours of the UAlbany Campus and the Empire State Plaza
For members of DOCOMOMO, New York/Tri-State Chapter. DOCOMOMO stands for the Do cumentation and Co nservation of buildings, sites, and neighborhoods of the Mo dern Mo vement.
9 (Sun): Open House, St. Joseph 's Church, Ten Broeck and Second Streets, 1 – 3:00 p.m. Historic Albany Foundation
Come and see the interior stabilization project, an exhibit about the history of the building and parish, and hear about plans for the future.
 August
13 (Sun): Open House, St. Joseph 's Church, Ten Broeck and Second Streets, 1 – 3:00 p.m. Historic Albany Foundation
Come and see the interior stabilization project, an exhibit about the history of the building and parish, and hear about plans for the future.
17 (Thurs): Albany Institute of History and Art , Gallery Talk: 200 Years of Washington Park , 6:00 pm . Discussion with Doug McCombs, AIHA, Curator of History.
9 (Sun): Open House, St. Joseph 's Church, Ten Broeck and Second Streets, 1 – 3:00 p.m. Historic Albany Foundation
Come and see the interior stabilization project, an exhibit about the history of the building and parish, and hear about plans for the future.
We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of The College of Arts and Science, the Office of the Provost, Academic Affairs Office, and University Auxiliary Services of Albany, Inc.
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