The best revenge is massive success.
— Frank Sinatra

It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that.
— Alan Alda

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.
— Albert Camus

Do not go where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson



OPENING TOMORROW 8PM
ALFONSO VOLO: Thrifting For Beauty
op @ Hallwalls Sat. May 2, 8—11pm
artist's reading/performance @ 8pm, music by Todd Whitman

Buffalo News Dabkowski


Opening Elsewhere
• Richard Kersting, Fran Noonan @ Meiborn (E. Aurora) op Fri, May 1, 6-9pm (thru May 30)
• Fables and Truths @ Starlight Studio op Fri, May 8, 6-9pm (thru June 26)
• Craig Smith @ Bob Schultz,, Tim Raymond, Joe Moran, Bob Schulman, Francisco Amaya, Candace Keegan, Neil Mahar, Joe Kerwin, Amands Giczkowski, Nick DeMarchi, John Farallo, Ginny Stewart, Chris McGee, Val Dunne, Eileen Graetz, Adam Kessler, Dario Mohr @ College Street Gallery op Fri, May 1, 8-10pm (thru May 31)


Nancy Belfer @ Indigo

op Fri, May 1, 6-9pm (thru June 7)



@ Artspace May 1

Jacqueline Welch: Beast Friends

op @ Artsphere Fri, May 1, 6:30-9pm (thru May 30)

Gary Nickard's Moment of Uncertainty

op @ CEPA Sat, May 2, 7-10pm (thru June 14)

ALSO, SAME NIGHT @ CEPA: 2nd Annual Writing With Light Exhibition AND The Still Photographers of Buffalo present Buffalo at Night

Profundis Brose

@ Studiio Hart op Fri, May 8, 6-8pm (thru June 20)

Fables and Truths @ Starlight Studio

op Friday, May 8, 6-9pm (June 26)

Buffalo Society of Artists @ Betty's

op Monday, May 11, 6-9pm (thru July 12)

Mark Freeland Retrospective

BCP, BPO, BSE, Stravinsky, Visser't Hooft: May 27, $15

"The Buffalo Chamber Players (featuring members of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra) and the avant-garde performance group Buffalo Soundpainting Ensemble are combining to present a fully-staged production of Stravinsky's "A Soldier's Tale," based on original 1951 BPO costume and set designs by important WNY painter, Martha Visser't Hooft. An exhibit of Visser't Hooft's paintings will precede the concert. The show takes place May 27th at Buffalo Seminary. The Buffalo Chamber Players are a group that endeavors to challenge and redefine the public's perception of chamber music, and to promote the city of Buffalo as an inspiring place to live, work, and play."
A Soldier's Tale

Continuing Elsewhere
• Amy Greenan @ the Castellani thru May 17 and Kara Walker thru May 31 and Jed Jackson thru Sept 20
• David Andree @ Burchfield Nature & Art Center thru June 13
• NCCC Student Honors Exhibition thru May 12
• Nathan Naetzker @ Studio Hart thru May 2
• Michael Beitz, Letha Wilson @ Buffalo Arts Studio thru May 22
• Jackie Felix, Cathy Pardike, Coni Minneci @ the Carnegie thru May 2
• Kara Daving @ EcoCenter San Francisco thru June 20
• Betty's 4th Annual Staff Exhibition thru May 10
• Bruce Jackson at the Albright Knox thru May 10
• Saya Woolfalk, Ani Hoover @ UB Art Gallery thru June 20
• Visions of Greater Buffalo @ CEPA Sat, Apr 25, 7-9:30
• Stephen Antonakos, Warren Isensee, Gary Lang, Melissa Meyers, Katherine Sehr @ Nina Freudenheim thru June 12
• Matthew Palmo @ redFISH (E. Aurora)thru May 8
• Some Assembly Required UB Student Thesis Exhibition @ Tri-Main thru May 10
• Rita Argen Auerbach at The Mansion on Delaware (until daylight savings time ends)
• Diane Baker at The Mansion on Delaware (indefinitely)

"After a decades-long period of steady decline, the art gallery scene in Allentown is inching its way back..."

Buffalo New Dabkowski

Bea Arthur 1922—2009

NY Times obit

Something I listened to this week...

I don't really listen to Feist. I am Feist-neutral. This is her piano player. Much better. Beautiful album. Recommended.



Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.
— Kahlil Gibran