Buffalo, New York
With the exception of senatorial hopefuls, many New Yorkers write off the rest of the Empire State as a cultural hinterland. But the chilly rustbelt city of Buffalo now has something to thrill culture junkies other than its scattered specimens of pioneering early 20th-century architecture: the Burchfield Penney Art Center. Opened last November and designed by Gwathmey Siegel & Associates, the museum has more than 7,000 works by more than 600 artists with strong ties to western New York State. It's an impressive cast of characters: the Arts and Crafts book printer Elbert Hubbard, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the minimalist painter Robert Mangold, the experimental illustrator and filmmaker Robert Longo, and that mistress of the auto-focus, the photographer Cindy Sherman - among many others.
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