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A Permanent Art Gallery for Buffalo: Magnificent Fulfillment of a 157-Year-Old Vision

By Jacek Wysocki - February 12, 2020

We mark the two-year closing of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Elmwood Avenue facility with a retrospective on the institution's beginnings and physical evolution.

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