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5:00pm–7:00pm Albany Institute of History & Art holds extended hours for the city of Albany's popular First Friday program! Enjoy free gallery admission to visit our current exhibitions: Americans Who Tell the Truth, Portrait Pairings, and Enchanting Threads: The Art of Salley Mavor.

5:30pm–6:30pm First Friday Free Lecture In this lecture, Caroline Fowler will examine the impact of the trans-Atlantic slave trade in forming the visual language of a period often described today as the "Dutch Golden Age." Fowler will think about how seventeenth-century artists negotiated the violence of the slave trade, and its impact on the Dutch pictorial economy, focusing in particular on Frans Post, and his views of plantations in Brazil. Caroline Fowler's new book, Slavery and the Invention of Dutch Art (Duke University Press, 2025) will be available for purchase in the museum shop.  

10:00am–4:00pm Drop-in art-making in the classroom Enjoy your visit to the museum, and explore your artistic side with an art project inspired by the museum's exhibitions and collections. Museum patrons may enjoy drop-in art-making on the second Saturday of each month. Activities are offered from September 2024–May 2025. The program is free with museum admission; no registration required. All ages are welcome to participate.

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