Albany wants to turn the state capital’s Egg into an ‘art vortex’

Diane Eber was a college student when she saw her first show at “The Egg,” the brutalist concrete oval that bursts from Albany’s skyline of government office buildings. And more than the music, she remembers the space.

“I was like, ‘Whoa, we are going to go inside that crazy building?’” she said on a recent tour. “And my other memories were honestly of it, feeling very prim and proper.”

Now Eber, as executive director of what’s formally called the Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center, is finishing up a $19.5 million renovation — the first major overhaul since the Egg opened in 1978…

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