Celebrating Community
Before the birth of their daughter but after the two graduated from the School of Visual Arts, the photographer Stephen Lipuma and graphic designer Amy Ng opened Court Tree Collective in Carroll Gardens. Now in its fifth year, the space provides a community center for cooking events, fine art exhibitions, and just about anything else the community finds itself curious about. Court Tree […]
For a month-long run at the Waterfront Museum & Showboat Barge, the Bushwick based theater troupe, Cave Theatre Co., is giving a solid production of “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead,” the 1964 Tom Stoppard absurdist comedy whose characters, plot, and meaning are all wrapped up in its title. After the Waterfront’s ship captain removed the plank, and rang a bell […]
Oct 1 Greenlight Bookstore’s Prospect Lefferts Gardens location presents Everyday People: The Color of Life–a Short Story Anthology. “Representing a wide range of styles, themes, and perspectives, these selected stories depict moments that linger—crossroads to be navigated, relationships, epiphanies, and times of doubt, loss, and discovery. A celebration of writing and expression, Everyday People brings to light the rich tapestry that binds us […]
Innovative photography at BWAC Queens-raised artist James Venuti is a pharmacy manager by day and a photographer by all other hours. His sprawling image of the Flatiron Building “Turn to the Right” is on display at Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), the 25,000 square foot warehouse that continues to be a remarkable incubator of emerging and well-established artists. “Turn to […]
Dan Zanes’s Sensory Friendly Folk Opera By Matt Caprioli After founding The Del Fuegos in 1984 to moderate commercial success (Rolling Stone hailed them the best band of 1984) Grammy-award winner Dan Zanes turned to children’s music in the mid-90s after the birth of his daughter. He then started playing for neighborhood kids. Once a tape of his circulated […]
Sept 5 To commemorate Cajun country pioneer Jimmy Newman, who passed four years ago, Jalopy Theater hosts a tribute concert with the Foghorn Stringband (Caleb Klauder, Reeb Willms, Nadine Landry, and Stephen Lind). “Foghorn Stringband continually and obsessively draws from old-time, bluegrass, classic country, and Cajun music traditions in an ongoing quest to present a broad span of American historical music with an unparalleled youthful energy, joy, […]
The artist Nancy Bowen has been showing politically attuned sculpture and drawings since the early 80s. Her exhibition, For Each Ecstatic Instant, is on display at Kentler International Drawing Space through Oct 28. Taking its title from an Emily Dickinson poem – “For each ecstatic instant/ we must an anguish pay/ in keen and quivering ratio/ to the ecstasy”—it occupies […]
If you see a woman walking around in a shimmering gold dress the next couple of weeks, it’s probably the English graphic designer Fandangoe Kid (Annie Nicholson). We caught up with Nicholson after her trip to Coney Island, which, in her words, “is so weird I fucking love it.” She’s in Red Hook for a residency at De-Construkt on 41 Seabring […]
Artist Jaimie Walker Wins Brooklyn Poster Project Contest Painter Jaimie Walker is the inaugural winner of the Superheroes NYC Brooklyn Poster Project. Her winning design will be featured on the back cover of The Red Hook-Star Revue. After graduating from Pratt Institute with a BFA in Communications Design, Walker swiftly became one of the pioneering artists who made the derelict and rather dangerous neighborhood DUMBO […]
Art tours around the Gowanus What better way to learn about the local arts scene than to take a tour with a local artist? On the second Saturday of every month, collage artist Rich Garr leads in-depth art walks as part of the volunteer-run Gowanus Dredgers Canoe Club. Since the late 90s, Garr has been leading art walks, starting with the Cleveland Museum of Art before […]