Tonight at 7:30pm at the Albright-Knox, UB professors Bruce Jackson and Diane Christian present Death Row, their 1979 film about men in Texas prisons waiting to be executed. It’s an important film, and rarely shown on a big screen. Plus, on the way to the auditorium, you’ll walk through Cummins Wide, an exhibition of photos Jackson took in Arkansas prisons in the early 1970s. There will be a discussion of the film afterward.

Here’s an interview with Jackson about his prison work.

Starting Sunday, Feruary 15, the Castellani Museum on the campus of Niagara University hosts an exhibition of prints by Kara Walker, done in the style of the artist’s famous cut-out silhouettes treating sexual relationships, violence, and racial iconography in the antebellum South. Beautiful and scathing, Walker’s work first gained attention in the mid 1990s. She was the subject of a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum in 2007. The image above comes from that.

The work is on loan to the Castellani from the collection of the Albright-Knox. The show runs through May 31, and there’s an opening reception on Sunday, February 22.

Jamie Moses and Matt Quinn took their video cameras to Saturday’s Music Is Art festival on the steps of the Albright-Knox:

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