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Events for Thursday, November 5, 2026
Thursday, November 5, 2026, All Day
Selections from the Collection
Collection Gallery
Selections from the Collection features objects from the museum’s photography and related technology collections. A conceptual thread connects objects, which rotate in and out of the exhibition, to the various lineages that exist throughout the history of photography. Showcased is a field richly interdependent on community networks for its progress.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, All Day
A Camera as Easy as the Pencil: George Eastman’s Goal Achieved
Second Floor Mansion
This new permanent exhibit provides a look at the evolution of photography, from George Eastman’s earliest dream of simplicity to today’s world, where images are not just easier to create but also instantly viewed, edited, and shared.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, All Day
Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL
Project Gallery
Ahndraya Parlato: TIME TO KILL is an evocative interrogation of gendered aging unfolding through photographs, letters, and sculpture. In the exhibition, Parlato explores her fears and fantasies around aging and thinks about how women may become less culturally visible as they enter perimenopausal stages of life.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, All Day
Picturing Equality: The Lambda Network at Kodak
Gallery Obscura
Explore the history of the Lambda Network at Kodak, the company’s LGBTQ employee resource group, and learn how its members influenced inclusivity in corporate workplace settings.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, All Day
GAG
Main Galleries
What is "gag"? Gag moves. Gag is visceral. Gag catches in the throat. A laugh. A retch. A joke. A bind. Pleasure and pain. Both noun and verb, gag provokes strong feelings. And, in the hands of artists, it offers a means of grappling with contemporary experience in a tragicomic mode.
Thursday, November 5, 2026, 7:30 p.m.
The Hole (35mm)
Dryden Theatre
Rochester Premiere Tsai Ming-liang’s cinema of loneliness and isolation (Rebels of the Neon God, Goodbye, Dragon Inn) was identified by the French miniseries 2000 Seen by…, which told stories of the approaching millennium from ten different directors in ten different countries.