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“Sanctuary: Borders & Belonging in 2026,” is an exhibition at the Rochester Contemporary Art Center featuring 11 different installations by artists from across the country and the Rochester area.
Arts, Music and Culture
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Jay Lincoln, the local artist whose vibrant and dynamic paintings and caricatures decorated the city’s bars and coffee shops, has died at age 60. He posted on Facebook about his prostate cancer diagnosis in early 2025. Lincoln worked in caricature, presenting faces with exaggerated features that brimmed with motion. He painted local fixtures and celebrities, […] The post Artist Jay Lincoln, whose caricatures captured Rochester, has died appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
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For museums, ‘cost of admission’ takes on many meanings. There are entrance fees, of course. But there are other costs that are harder to see: wondering whether you belong; worrying about how your children will behave; not seeing people who look like you in the galleries; or simply never having learned the unwritten rules of […] The post The Memorial Art Gallery will remove all admission fees in 2027, returning to its roots appeared first on CITY Magazine. Arts. Music. Culture..
Local and national arts from NPR
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While Trump pushes to get his name on the Kennedy Center and other public sites, history shows that sitting presidents have almost always avoided putting their brands on government assets. -
The Paramount and Warner Bros. merger has survived court challenges, public protests and regulatory scrutiny. Now, the Hollywood heavyweight, named Skydance, begins operating. -
The animated series "Arthur" premiered on PBS Kids on Oct. 7, 1996. -
John Steinbeck's 1952 epic was first adapted to film in 1955 by director Elia Kazan. Now, Kazan's granddaughter Zoe has directed a new Netflix miniseries, starring Florence Pugh. -
Like his previous work, including Homeland Elegies, The Radiance exposes the fissures of American racial, political and economic identity. -
HBO's series, which concluded Sunday night, focuses more on characters' internal battles than costumes and special effects. -
Beloved for its dinosaurs, Philadelphia's storied Academy of Natural Sciences closed down this week, amid an intense fight by local residents, politicians and scientists to save it. -
HBO's War is intended to be an anthology series about two dueling London law firms. The first season stars Dominic West and Sienna Miller as a high-profile couple in the midst of a very nasty divorce. -
The famed Chicago-based artist's career is taking a new direction with the purchase of Pickard China, the sole remaining maker of fine china in the United States. -
When the 2025 conclave began, no one expected an American pope. But by its end, Cardinal Robert Prevost had become Pope Leo. Here's a look behind the scenes. -
The Tonics, an amateur a cappella group of middle-aged men in suburban Philadelphia, have built a mass social media following by posting videos of their rehearsals in each other's kitchens. -
NAZA is an acronym for nezek agavi, Hebrew for "collateral damage." It refers to the number of civilian casualties the Israeli military deems acceptable. The documentary is made by Israeli filmmakers.
