Celebrating Community
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 […]
Rocky Sullivan’s hosts a “Kickin’ Cancer” benefit concert for bassist Malcolm Smart, long-time resident of Park Slope and owner of the first dog daycare in Brooklyn. The rock-filled event will reunite some of the most beloved musicians in Red Hook: Rome 56 (Artie Lamonica of The Shirts), Spaghetti Eastern Music (Sal Cataldi) Frank’s Museum (led by Frank Ruscitti, with Malcolm Smart on bass) and Formaldehyde Blues Train (FBT), reuniting for the […]
By Diehl Edwards Only 2% of the world’s population has naturally blond hair, and nearly 100% of them are white. Yet for many people the world over of all cultures and ethnicities, skin colors and genders, commit to the often painful process of bleaching their hair. Why is this look valued so highly? Renowned visual artist John Lucas and best-selling […]
For a photoshoot of the bassist Dave Holland, the artist Ulli Gruber was unexpectedly sent a private car from a production company. Feeling lucky for the car in lieu of a bus all the way to Woodstock, Gruber took advantage of the private drive and immaculate fall day to take photos throughout her two hour trip as the sun was […]
I walked over to Cobble Hill Cinemas last night to watch Hearts Beat Loud. It’s the same movie theater I’ve been going to since I was a toddler and I’ve passed it thousands of times so I couldn’t help but point and laugh when Cobble Hill Cinemas appeared in the film. It felt like every scene showed a different […]
A benefit concert on July 24 in Park Slope will donate all proceeds to nonprofits that keep families together at the US-Mexican border Feeling distraught from the cruel news at the border, children’s musician Amelia Robinson decided to fight for family rights with her life’s forte: music. Robinson spearheads the Tuesday, July 24th benefit concert dubbed “Families Belong Together.” […]
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 […]