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• Artist Jay Lincoln, whose caricatures captured Rochester, has died

  30-09-2026 17:15 via roccitymag.com
  
  Jay Lincoln, the local artist whose vibrant and dynamic paintings and caricatures decorated the city’s bars and coffee shops, has died at age 60. He posted on Facebook about his prostate cancer diagnosis in early 2025.Lincoln worked in caricature, presenting faces with exaggerated features that brimmed with motion. He painted local fixtures and celebrities, especially well-known pop-culture figures like Jack White, The Velvet Underground, David Byrne and characters from “Twin Peaks&
  
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• The Memorial Art Gallery will remove all admission fees in 2027, returning to its roots

  30-09-2026 07:12 via roccitymag.com
  
  For museums, ‘cost of admission’ takes on many meanings.There are entrance fees, of course. But there are other costs that are harder to see: wondering whether you belong; worrying about how your children will behave; not seeing people who look like you in the galleries; or simply never having learned the unwritten rules of a museum.The Memorial Art Gallery is betting that removing one barrier will help visitors confront some of the others. Beginning in 2027, general admission to MA
  
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