Tag Archive "brooklyn"
Near the Brooklyn Bridge
On a visit to see Alex and Lindsey in Brooklyn, we walked over to DUMBO. The blue lights of this installation caught our eyes–a beautiful shade of blue–so we entered what were basically the remaining four walls of an old tobacco warehouse, now a public open-air space along the waterfront.
New York mid-week fly-by – Music on the Solstice, under a bridge, in a park and on a Highline
Steve and I went to New York last week hoping to escape the Philly heat and humidity and slip into some music and art. Make Music New York was all over town, a free, one-day (Summer Solstice only) event bringing music (and streetside pianos for passersby to play) to all parts of town. We were excited (well, I was excited) to hear live music outdoors and was very curious about a project by Nick Franglen of the British electronic duo Lemon Jelly, who was making electronic music under the Manhattan Bridge. To my mind an intervention with the bridge seemed ... More » »
Oohs and Aahs – Maya Hayuk at Cinders Gallery and Justen Ladda at Storefront
Brooklyn is a medley of sensory impressions, many of which shimmer and shine–the glint off the East River, new eye glasses, lustrous 99-cent accessories. Two artists on view in the borough right now explore different sorts of sensory impact: Maya Hayuk, with a black-lit installation at Cinders Gallery and Justen Ladda with subtly glimmering mirrors at Storefront.
Gore and Folklore in Bushwick: Lenny Reibstein at English Kills
English Kills is one of many DIY galleries in Bushwick. Enter through a patio alleyway lined with potted plants and homemade benches from re-claimed, rusty chair frames and slide open the set of thick, glass doors. Right now two separate exhibitions are on view. Sarah H. Paulson, Holly Faurot, and Peter Dobill share the entry gallery. Walk past all this and you will enter a larger gallery with ten paintings and three drawings by the twenty-eight-year-old Lenny Reibstein.
William Lamson at The Boiler: A Line Describing the Sun
Two summers back, while I was working as an intern at Pierogi Gallery in Williamsburg, a tall young man with dirty blonde beard came in to show the manager and me a project he was working on. A video on his laptop, turned sideways to accommodate the vertical format, showed himself as he shot down pairs of shoes strung over telephone lines with a bow and arrow. My reaction: “Who is this?” and “Strange.” (Libby and Roberta saw the video at Vox Populi back in 2008). But it was Will Lamson, recognized for videos of quirky performances that engage with the ... More » »
Tunneling in Bushwick: Group Show at Famous Accountants
The current show at Famous Accountants, a dimly lit, but glowing white basement gallery in a Bushwick home, is a disorienting mix of media and technology. The exhibition, Tunneling, is a 13-person group show which covers the theme of tunneling in both its physical/spatial associations and its psychological—“confining, degenerating, myopic” (press release).
Report from Brooklyn: Regina Rex Gallery
by Emmy Thelander The show up right now at Regina Rex, a brand new gallery on the top floor of one of Bushwick’s industrial buildings, reminds me of a remark Carl Andre made in 1996 about the work of Eva Hesse. He said, “Perhaps I am the bones and the body of sculpture and perhaps Richard Serra is the muscle, but Eva Hesse is the brain and the nervous system extending far into the future.”
Brooklyn artists reinvent education
Post by Aryon Hoselton Artists are shaking up education in Brooklyn, and one of the people involved, Chris Kennedy, will be visiting Philadelphia today at basekamp, sharing his story at a potluck meeting tonight. Teaching Artist Union (TAU) in Brooklyn and its upcoming project The School of the Future (SOTF) are examining the incorporation of art, innovative teaching methods and non-traditional learning environments in a provocative program that asks if a school even needs a building.
Brent Burket’s Unbreak My Heart at PLUTO Gallery
Congratulations!! to our one-time New York correspondent, Brent Burket, a writer, collector and all round charming guy, who’s taken off with his blog Heart as Arena and with the Creative Time blog which he also writes. His first curated show at PLUTO Gallery in Brooklyn opens Nov. 1. It looks like it’s going to be a juicy show of rich abstract and conceptual works. We’ve put a few pictures in so you can get a taste of it. We hope to make it up there to see it. And we’ve let Brent’s words tell you about the show in his usual ... More » »
NOLA uptown and Lights from Brooklyn
Chuck and Iris came back to Philadelphia last night. They had made a trip to their house in uptown New Orleans and retrieved some precious things. Chuck reported that a team from the Historic New Orleans Collection — under armed guard — had gotten in to the museum and rescued the objects and artifacts. Iris said that a group from the LSU Medical Center had rescued the vacuum bottles containing the frozen cell lines needed for research — although nothing else was brought out. Below are a couple of pictures from Chuck’s flickr page. There are many more at his ... More » »
