Summer In Buffalo: Reviews Of The Current Exhibits At The Buffalo AKG Art Museum

"After The Sun - Forecasts From The North" and "Sin Wai Kin: It’s Always You"

Author’s Note: No Buffalo summer is complete without a day at the AKG Art Museum and a walk around Hoyt Lake. I hope you enjoy my previously published reviews of the Museum’s current exhibits. I have removed the paywall.

The Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s new exhibit After The Sun - Forecasts From The North opened Friday (April 26, 2024) in the museum’s new Gundlach Building. Conceptually ambitious, the collection seeks to “survey a generational response to the precarious state of our natural environment,” (AKG Buffalo Art Museum Press Release March 25, 2024).

“After The Sun” by Jonas Eike. Translated from Danish to English by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg. Riverhead Books. First Edition (August 24, 2021). 208 pages. ISBN 978-0593329108.

After The Sun takes its name from Danish author Jonas Eika’s 2019 collection of acclaimed short stories. Eike’s book is a delight, filled with Kafkaesque images of late capitalism’s absurdity such as employees at a Copenhagen bank, which had collapsed into rub…