Celebrating Community
Community Potluck for Creatives De-Construkt Each Sunday of the last month, De-Construkt Studio, a full service creative studio, encourages creatives from the neighborhood to bring their favorite dishes to meet other artists in the area. If talking process of any craft excites you, here are your people. They’re also not opposed to conversations about branding and visual identity, whether personal or for a company. De-Construckt Design has been around […]
Every summer, the best things about New York come together in the form of outdoor movie festivals. Here are three free movie festivals near Red Hook with a distinct lineup, replete with the Cyclone or Manhattan skyline in the background. Movies with a View Opening at 6pm every Thursday and starting soon as the sun sets, BAMcinématek curates a wide list of […]
Recycling Show at BWAC Through June 17, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition exhibits over 60 artists who have found some really creative ways to restore value into “trash.” Some, it must be said, do look like the substance they’re made of, but others like Natalya Aikens’s “Sunset” and Michael Rejner’s poignant “MRO1-S4” are very memorable. Juror John Cloud Kaiser wrote “Whether […]
If “Death of a Salesman” deals with economic whiplash and “The Crucible” warns of religious frenzy, Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” reckons with the tidal force of sexuality. Brave New World Repertory Theater in Flatbush does memorable justice to the classic, now running through June 24 and directed by Alex Dmitriev. It’s mid-1950s Red Hook, and according to […]
Hidden from passerby on Van Brunt Street is a mobile library of motley images and bizarre archival knowledge. It’s called Reanimation Library, and its towering shelves have over 2,000 discarded books published from the 1930s to the 1970s with titles likes “Procedural Advertising”; “Space Age Fight Fighters”; “The Mystic Art of the Ninja”; “A Study of Splashes”; “Inkblot Perception […]
Even if you have zero interest in writing, you’ve probably seen a cab-yellow newsstand of catalogs for Gotham Writers Workshop, or the lime green advertisements for Sackett Street Writers Workshop. Since 2002, Sackett Street has worked with over 3,500 writers, and Gotham Writers (founded in 1993) currently averages 2,800 New Yorkers a year with their in-person classes. But trumping […]
The queen of literary memoir releases an exquisite collection of poems on May 8. Best known for the memoirs “Lit” and “The Liars Club,” Karr displays her formal mastery and heartfelt innovations in this collection that looks at the commingling of ribald humanity and the potentialities of God. The first half collects poems on Karr’s usual themes—Texas memories, comic carnage, […]
Canadian visual artist duo Gagnon-Forest spent the last 2 months in Red Hook doing an art residency in collaboration with De Construkt Project. Mathieu Gagnon and Mathilde Forest were researching and gathering stories in order to create a body of work based on Red Hook architecture and heritage in the midst of social and economic changes. The Star Revue interviewed […]
While we can’t catch everything New York throws at us, we can certainly try and enjoy the dizzying trumble. Here are some highlights around town to get you in the mood for making the most of March. Exhibitions Small Editions on Sackett Street will celebrate their past six years of existence with 27 artists previously featured at the beautiful book […]
Itty Neuhaus’ show installed at the Kentler Drawing Center. As climate change alters the lines that form our world, artists have responded in a myriad of ways that tend to mimic the (mostly destructive) processes operating on the landscape, but through actions and works that aim to be reparative against this real-time destruction. Itty Neuhaus, the Greenpoint-based artist and art […]