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Artistic community
Albany possesses an active artistic community and culture that is often regenerated by students at the region's colleges and universities, the region's many nonprofit cultural organizations, and by former residents of regional megalopolises such as Boston and New York relocating to take advantage of Albany's affordable historic housing and commercial spaces. The Albany Symphony Orchestra, Capital Repertory Theatre, Albany Institute of History & Art, and Palace Theatre provide outlets for locally composed, created, and curated works, as well as traveling exhibitions and shows. There are several small, private art galleries and antique book shops in Albany, mainly clustered around Lark Street between Washington Avenue and Madison Avenue. Lark Street hosts the annual Art on Lark event, an outdoor sidewalk gallery and sale featuring local artists and musicians exhibiting and demonstrating their original work. The Albany area sees numerous theatrical works.

Albany is home to a large and important collection of modern art. The Empire State Plaza Art Collection, which belongs to the citizens of New York, includes works by Alexander Calder, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock. The emphasis of the collection is abstract work by New York artists from the 1960s and 1970s, including representative artists from the Abstract Expressionist, Color Field, and Lyrical Abstraction movements. Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City has called the collection "the most important State collection of modern art in the country."