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Sunday, November 8th, was a beautiful day to visit the world famous Albright-Knox Art Museum.


Academies students received an awesome tour from Anna who explained the costs of putting up an installation and had first hand knowledge about the current exhibits. Everyone even got
to receive their own piece of artwork from minimal artist Felix Gonzalez-Torres.


We learned how Monet could create a piece that looks just like winter in Buffalo without mixing colors and why Andy Warhol liked soup (for much of the same reason college kids like Ramen- he was a broke artist and that's all he could
afford!). We weren't allowed to take a picture, but the group also got to hang out under a giant folding table!

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