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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum, formerly known as the Albright–Knox Art Gallery, is an art museum in Buffalo, New York, United States, in Delaware Park. The museum was expanded beginning in 2021, and re-opened in June 2023. The museum is a major showplace for modern art and contemporary art.
- May 31, 1905
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- Albright–Knox Art Gallery (1962–2022?), Albright Art Gallery (1905–1962)
The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) is one of the oldest museums dedicated to the art of our time, and the sixth-oldest public art institution in the United States. It was founded in December 1862 as the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy with former President Millard Fillmore among its incorporators.
Nov 21, 2022 · By Hilarie M. Sheets. Published Nov. 21, 2022 Updated Nov. 22, 2022. The former Albright-Knox Art Gallery, now named the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, will reopen to the public on May 25, 2023, with...
View from Iroquois Drive of the new John J. Albright Bridge connecting the Wilmers Building (left) to the new Gundlach Building (right) Common Sky , 2019, by Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann of Studio Other Spaces, will cover the museum's new indoor Town Square in the Seymour H. Knox Building. © Studio Other Spaces
Albright-Knox, Buffalo, New York. 34,888 likes · 204 talking about this · 49,907 were here. Explore art and get creative at the #BuffaloAKG, contemporary since 1862.
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The Buffalo AKG Art Museum (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery) is one of the oldest museums dedicated to the art of our time, and the sixth-oldest public art institution in the United States. Learn More.
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery is the institution chiefly responsible for turning the city of Buffalo into an unlikely destination for avant-garde cultural events and art. In the 1960s, Gordon Smith and Seymour Knox revitalized the gallery, turning it into a significant center for contemporary art, beginning with Abstract Expressionism.
