Archive Captures 40 Years of the Gay Rights
When the University of Rochester’s Gay Liberation Front launched the Empty Closet in 1971, they knew that distributing a newspaper advocating “the freedom to love” same-sex partners was a radical act.
Concert to Celebrate Composer Karol Szymanowski
Music and writings of Karol Szymanowski will be featured in a concert commemorating the 130th anniversary of the composer’s birthday and 75th anniversary of his death on Wednesday, Oct. 3.
Excitement Builds as Fringe Festival Opens
The Vanessa Mangione Quartet (above) — all graduates of the Eastman School of Music — are among the performers at Rochester’s first-ever Fringe Festival, which opened on Wednesday. University students, faculty, and alumni are among the more than 200 performances scheduled for the five-day fest.
Williams awarded for ‘major breakthrough’ in vision science
The $630,000 Champalimaud Award goes to Professor David Williams for his work on adaptive optics technologies.
Online archive provides window on progressive 19th century movements
A new online archive of the Post Family Papers reveals a Rochester family at the center of the abolition, woman’s suffrage, and temperance movements of the 1800s.
‘A Great Gift to the City’: 100 Years of MAG
Dedicated in memory of a beloved son, the Memorial Art Gallery looks forward to its centennial celebration in October 2013 as a community landmark and resource for the arts.