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A Celebration of Art and Community

3/22/2022

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Artful Conversation with Andy Wulf

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​This message is one of gratitude and enthusiasm for all who stepped out and up the evening of the last Saturday in February to support the Albany Museum of Art. The purpose of this event, AMA Art Ball 2022: Metamorphosis, became less of an annual fundraiser for the museum and more of a sneak peek at our new site downtown. The event, our largest of the year, held special significance in many ways. 


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Whiplash du Jour

12/3/2021

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The Mayo Clinic website indicates that the effects of whiplash typically include pain, headaches, and tenderness. Other symptoms include numbness, fatigue, sleep disturbances, irritability, difficulty concentrating, memory problems, and depression.

Funny, these are the symptoms I hear about from friends and even strangers who have weathered, successfully or not, the trials of living during an unprecedented period of human evolution. ​


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'The Clubhouse for All Who Need It'

10/25/2021

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Annie Vanoteghem, director of education and public programming at the Albany Museum of Art, leads a group of 4-H Club members from Terrell County on an Oct 12 tour of "European Splendors: Old Master Paintings from the Kress Collection. "

'The Clubhouse for All who Need It'

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The above idea comes from Elaine Heumann Gurian, the museum visionary, who says, “My dream is that the museum will become the clubhouse for all who need it. The museum at long last will become central and the community that surrounds it will be strengthened by it.” This idea is central to the direction the Albany Museum of Art is heading. 

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Taking heart in times of crisis

9/15/2021

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“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”
—Frank O’Hara

It is a steamy, overcast Saturday, typical of late summer here in the Deep South. At the museum, our two new exhibitions by up-and-coming artists Sanaz Haghani and Cedric Smith tackle the role of women in a theocratic society and the forgotten history of African-American horse culture, respectively.


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The Last Three Feet Between Us

6/27/2021

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping of the People’s Republic of China on Jan. 29, 1979 in Washington, D.C., greet American schoolchildren who performed in Chinese the protest song that Deng Xiaoping sang three years earlier as he was being taunted by Chairman Mao’s cultural revolutionaries while being paraded through Tiananmen Square. (Photo: National Archives)
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​One of my favorite episodes of cultural diplomacy occurred in 1979 when Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping of the People’s Republic of China visited the United States to see President Jimmy Carter. This first state visit by a Chinese leader followed the normalization of formal diplomatic relations between the U.S. and China. 


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​Against the corrosive influence of forgetting

5/14/2021

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A stela at the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., is a reminder of two lynchings that occurred in Dougherty County. Thomas Royal was murdered in 1906, and Curley McKelvey in 1920. (Photo: Andrew J. Wulf/Albany Museum of Art)
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The title for this article is inspired by President Joe Biden’s statement on April 24, 2021, Armenian Remembrance Day, in which the United States officially recognized the Armenian Genocide of 1915. This moment of recognition reminds me there is a vast difference between involuntary forgetting and intentional banishment from memory.


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Hey, where’s the AMA going?

4/26/2021

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Students from Albany State University tour the "Butch Anthony: Art, Nature, and Interwangleism" exhibition on view now in the Haley Gallery at the Albany Museum of Art. The AMA has five exhibition galleries open and a full slate of programs underway. (Photo: Albany Museum of Art/Jim Hendricks)
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Things will be great when you're downtown
No finer place for sure downtown
Everything's waiting for you.


​-- Petula Clark

Over the last ten years or so, scuttlebutt has it that the Albany Museum of Art will move downtown. Rumors as to when, where, why, and how it’s happening have swerved from fiction to truth to the absurd, like the telephone game children play.

Folks, here’s the skinny. 


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To see a world of DIY wonder

3/22/2021

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Butch Anthony, “Adam and Eve,” 2018, cow bones, wire, canvas, paint, found objects
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To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
nd Eternity in an hour

— From “Auguries of Innocence” by William Blake

The new Butch Anthony exhibition at the Albany Museum of Art, Art, Nature, and Intertwangleism, may at first glance appear a panorama of animal life, removed from its original disposition, reconstituted, and made into art. 


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Confusion makes its masterpiece

2/23/2021

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I was asked in a recent interview how artists have made sense of the pandemic.

​German playwright Bertolt Brecht said,


   “In the dark times
   Will there be singing?
   There will be singing
   Of the dark times.”



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Keep heart and carry on

1/19/2021

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Singer/songwriter John Prine was one of the thousands of Americans who have died from COVID-19.
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​I remember vividly the first time I witnessed the direct effects of a pandemic on human beings. It was 1989 when, as a freshman at the University of Southern California, I accompanied a photography student who was shooting portraits of terminal AIDS patients at a hospice not far from campus. I carried her lights and cables, and served as her tech support.


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    Andrew J. "Andy" Wulf, Ph.D.

    Andrew J. “Andy” Wulf is executive director of the Albany Museum of Art. A native of Los Angeles, he has a Ph.D. from the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester, United Kingdom, and an M.A. in Art History and Museum Studies from the University of Southern California. Before coming to the AMA in October 2019, he was executive director of the New Mexico History Museum and the Palace of the Governors in Santa Fe, N.M. (2015-19) and supervisory museum curator for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum (2010-15). Contact him at andrew.wulf@albanymuseum.com.

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