Art Review: 'Quiet Elegance' at the Buffalo AKG

A remarkable private collection of 20th Century art makes its public debut

Author’s Note: This review was originally published August 14, 2024 at The Buffalo Hive where I serve as Managing Editor.

Since its June 2023 reopening the Buffalo AKG Museum added a main entrance on Elmwood Avenue adjacent to the new, expansive green space that used to be a surface parking lot (the City of Buffalo LOVES surface parking lots. Nearly ⅓ of downtown is surface parking lots).

I prefer to enter from Lincoln Parkway, adjacent to the statue of young Lincoln where AKG construction continues. Chain link and orange safety fencing funnel the visitor past the iconic Nancy Rubens canoes sculpture and into Shohei Shigematsu's fractal fantasy (below).

OMA/Shohei Shigematsu in collaboration with Cooper Robertson. Ralph C. Wilson, Jr. Town Square, Buffalo AKG Art Museum.

In order to find the Hemicycle Gallery which houses the recently opened "Quiet Elegance" exhibit, walk through the Town Square and make a hard right at the opposing wall. You will pay your fee to the lovely people behind…