Image Out Film Festival
Sweet Creations Gingerbread Display
This annual display features dozens of cleverly designed and deliciously decorated gingerbread houses and objects.
Wreath Display & Silent Auction
Uniquely decorated wreaths on view in the Potter Peristyle.
Tabletop Tree Display & Silent Auction
Trees decorated by local businesses are on display throughout the historic mansion.
Adam Ekberg: Minor Spectacles
Loneliness permeates Adam Ekberg’s whimsical photographs that document the climax of orchestrated events. While the camera freezes them into still lifes, a sense of continuity—like the arc of a story—happens as one realizes that Ekberg (American, b. 1975) invented, manifested, documented, and concluded these events. The objects take on lives of their own, even though we know that such agency is impossible.
Miracle on 34th Street
Holidays | Best Picture Nominees of 1947 Released in the summer of 1947, Miracle on 34th Street has nonetheless grown into a perennial favorite, bridging the season from Thanksgiving to Christmas. When the Santa Clause hired for the end of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade turns up drunk, a jolly, bearded man named Kris (Edmund Gwenn) volunteers for the job.
Home Alone
Holidays When his suffocating brood forgets to pack him along for a Christmas abroad, young Kevin McCallister believes his holiday wish has come true when he wakes up to an empty house.
Scrooge
Holidays Charles Dickens’s immortal classic comes to life in this musical adaptation with songs and music by Leslie Bricusse, who had recently done the same for the enormously popular Doctor Dolittle (1967).
The Bishop’s Wife
Holidays | Best Picture Nominees of 1947 Come Christmastime, Bishop Brougham (David Niven) finds his life in tatters: he can’t come up with the funds for a new cathedral, and his wife (Loretta Young) seems to be losing faith in their marriage.
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
Holidays “How can the same stuff happen to the same guy twice?” John McClane (Bruce Willis) is back after the hostage situation at Nakatomi Plaza. A year later, he is waiting at Dulles Airport for his wife’s flight from California so they can visit her family at Christmas.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Holidays | Make Mine Musicals Judy Garland stars as Esther Smith, one of four daughters of a prominent St. Louis businessman around the time of the World’s Fair in 1903.
The Bishop’s Wife
Holidays | Best Picture Nominees of 1947 Come Christmastime, Bishop Brougham (David Niven) finds his life in tatters: he can’t come up with the funds for a new cathedral, and his wife (Loretta Young) seems to be losing faith in their marriage.
Scrooge
Holidays Charles Dickens’s immortal classic comes to life in this musical adaptation with songs and music by Leslie Bricusse, who had recently done the same for the enormously popular Doctor Dolittle (1967).
HOLIDAYS AT THE MUSEUM 2022
JuanJose y Santana, Latin Trio
JuanJose y Santana is a Rochester, NY based Latin trio formed in 2021. Their music is influenced by rhythms and themes from the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Brazil.
Red
Polish Film Festival Red is the color of heat, passion, anger, and fraternity. Valentine (Irêne Jacob) is a student and model in Geneva, working on jobs while dealing with her long-distance insecure boyfriend.
The Story of Film: A New Generation
The Story of Film A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, an expansive and influential inquiry into the state of moviemaking in the 20th century, filmmaker Mark Cousins returns with an epic and hopeful tale of cinematic innovation from around the globe.
SPECIAL EVENT |The Ancient Law
Special Event Baruch (Ernst Deutsch), the son of a rabbi, becomes fascinated by the theater. Against his father’s wishes, Baruch leaves home and finds his way to Vienna, where an archduchess at the imperial court (Henny Porten) falls in love with him.
Good Bye Till Tomorrow
Polish Film Festival The “Polish James Dean,” Zbigniew Cybulski, shines as the charming leader of a traveling acting troupe who catches the eye of a fetching Frenchwoman.
