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There was a time when Brooklyn was an artist’s bedroom community: many musicians only moved here to flee the oppressive Manhattan rents. In the ’80s and ’90s, you and your significant other would tell everyone you were moving out to Brooklyn to a great place with a huge backyard. Friends would come to your first party, agree how cool it […]
At Pioneer Works, the Germantown-based artist Sally Saul shares whimsical objects of clay and glaze that create a mythos around subjects that are by turns precious and nefarious. The name of the exhibit, “Blue Hills, Yellow Tree,” captures the sort of winding up and down these 34 works curate. It’s a pleasant ride, whose occasionally puzzling pieces remain amusing and […]
In 1978, on the 25th anniversary of the CIA coup that re-installed the Shah of Iran, four men doused the Cinema Rex theater in the city of Abadan with jet fuel, and burned the building down. As many as 800 people died. Prior to 9/11, it was the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the planet. Even 40 […]
The Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC – be cool and pronounce it Bee-Whack) opened its sprawling warehouses in the middle of May. Don’t miss your chance to absorb works from Brooklyn’s largest artist-run gallery. I recently strolled through and passed several gems: Unlike just about every gallery in Manhattan, the works here are reasonably priced. You’ll find spectacularly composed street […]
The title “Capernaum” (Capharaüm) comes from the Biblical city condemned to hell in the book of Matthew. The film is set in Beirut, a city also without order or peace. And certainly without mercy. The resulting chaos swirls in a world created by Nadine Labaki, one of harrowing circumstances, brought to life by the honesty and charisma of one little […]
“Live in your world / Play in ours” is a group exhibition that will present works by New York-based emerging artists who work with different media. This exhibition, curated by Red Hook artist Kyoko Hamaguchi, is meant to simulate common elements of a living space. For example, pedestals will be replaced by a dining table on which several artworks will be displayed. “In this […]
It’s a classic Revolutionary War battle tableau — formal ranks of fearsome Redcoats square off against a ragtag bunch of… mermaids? It’s the kind of thing one might expect from Duke Riley, the Brooklyn-based artist who produced Semper Defier, the mural that will hang above the bar at Red Hook restaurant Fort Defiance. Riley, whose work is exhibited in several museums […]
Extreme Kids and Crew is holding their sixth annual fundraiser on May 15 at 501 Union Street in Gowanus. Doors open at 7. Extreme Kids and Crew is a nonprofit that provides a welcoming and supportive space for children with disabilities. They have a play space at PS 15 in Red Hook where a ball pit and sensory gym equipment […]
Brooklyn-based Asase Yaa Cultural Arts Foundation (AYCAF) and their School of the Arts program are getting ready for what’s expected to be their largest children’s summer art camp. The multidisciplinary theater camp, which is geared toward ages four to 13, has attracted over a thousand participants since 2006, averaging 70 kids per summer. This summer AYCAF is adding 30 additional […]
“Marjana and The Forty Thieves” is a modern retelling from the minds of the Target Margin Theater Company of The One Thousand and One Nights, directed by David Herskovits. Broken into three distinct acts, each with a unique style of storytelling, the play enthusiastically immerses the viewer in a tactile world of storytale. The collaborative, unbridled energy and years of […]
May 1 In Carroll Gardens, Cathouse Proper celebrates its fifth anniversary with “FUNeral in Cathouse Proper: Life to Art to Life” running through June 2. The name is appropriate as the gallery originated in 2013 in an East Williamsburg funeral parlor. Founding director David Dixon moved the gallery to its current locale in 2016. The exhibition includes two massive plaster […]
There’s one day left to submit an application to be one of 10 participants in Red Hook Lab’s Master Workshop with Alastair McKimm. Selected participants will have their work evaluated by the renowned stylist whose vision has collaborated with brands like Calvin Klein, Alexander Wang, Jill Sander and Saint Laurent, and teamed with photographers including Mario Sorrenti, Collier Schorr, Inez and Vinoodh, Dan Jackson and Davis Sims. McKimm will […]
Vera Iliatova sometimes accidentally leaves her studio in the same outfits as the women she’s painting. That’s because the draped, familiar trenches and sensible skirts that outfit the women in her work are painted from the mirrored reflection of her own body. Her work reverberates with the warmth of the same lifeforce. It animates her lush dreamscapes to feel eerily familiar and […]