Buffalo AKG Museum of Art

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The museum traces its roots to the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, founded in 1862; construction began after industrialist John J. Albright's donation in January 1900. Architect Edward Brodhead Green designed the building in a neoclassical style inspired by the Erechtheion, and it opens on May 31, 1905, as the Albright Art Gallery. In June 1960, the Seymour H. Knox Foundation pledges $1.4 million toward the $1.7 million cost of an addition, and when Gordon Bunshaft's new building opens in 1962, the museum is renamed the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Its holdings include 33 paintings by Clyfford Still, the world's second-largest collection of his work. In 2023, following a major expansion designed by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA with Cooper Robertson, the museum reemerges as the Buffalo AKG Art Museum. Lead donor Jeffrey Gundlach's $65 million gift gives his name to the new Gundlach Building, and when the museum reopens in June 2023 it gains more than 30,000 square feet of new exhibition space.