MERET KELSEY
Meret Kelsey is an assistant arts editor at The Spectrum.
ARTS
UB’s Orange Dog Club rocks the Spectrum newsroom
By MERET KELSEY | May 3, 2023The Buffalo-based musical project of UB student Tim Turner, visited the newsroom last week for an intimate performance of stripped-down, guitar-driven indie rock.
ARTS
Creative control and inclusivity take the stage at the Dancer’s Workshop
By MERET KELSEY and AMY MASLIN | May 3, 2023Dancer’s Workshop isn’t your average department-run performance. This one’s all about the students.
Photo: Courtesy of Isabel Yu
ARTS
‘Wait, like, naked?’: A conversation with a figure model
By MERET KELSEY | Apr. 26, 2023Isabel Yu has been a figure model in art classes for about a year and a half.
ARTS
Smash or pass: UB students on the best and worst songs for sex
By MERET KELSEY and ALEX NOVAK | Apr. 26, 2023Pick a song that gets you hard, not one that makes sex harder.
ARTS
Graduating art students debut “Reflections of Impermanence”
By MERET KELSEY | Apr. 19, 2023“Reflections of Impermanence,” the Department of Art’s class of 2023 senior thesis exhibition, opened to warm reception last Thursday evening at the Center for the Arts (CFA).
ARTS
What to expect from the brand new Buffalo AKG Museum
By MERET KELSEY | Apr. 12, 2023The museum’s June 2023 debut will include new acquisitions, additional community spaces and a redesigned campus.
Photo: Matthias Wagner / Unsplash
ARTS
Embrace Buffalo’s music scene with these up-and-coming local bands
By MERET KELSEY | Apr. 5, 2023Buffalo might be primarily known for football, wings and cold weather, but it's got great music too.
FEATURES
Selma Blair gets candid about multiple sclerosis, addiction and more
By MERET KELSEY and SUHA CHOWDHURY | Mar. 18, 2023The gravity of the topics in her speech didn’t stop Blair from speaking with remarkable levity and humor, garnering laughter from the audience all night.
ARTS
A ‘recycling center’ for the departed and discarded
By MERET KELSEY and ALEX NOVAK | Mar. 15, 2023A gigantic gray staircase split the space down the middle. Sculptures of garbage stood guard in the corners. Old family photos were plastered on the theater’s walls and UFO-like rings hung from the ceiling.
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By MERET KELSEY | Feb. 15, 2023The Burchfield Penney’s gallery walls are lined with Johnson’s vibrant, colorful pieces.
