Celebrating Community
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 […]
The South West Brooklyn Fall Festival is the Columbia Waterfront District’s annual street fair. It focuses around Union and Columbia Streets, and is scheduled for Saturday September 15, from noon to 5 pm. “I have noticed growth the last couple of years,” Ben Fuller Googgins, programming and planning director of the fair’s sponsor, the Carroll Garden’s Association (CGA). “I would […]
Pioneer Works holds workshop to educate artists on science of solar panels By Diehl Edwards Accomplished multimedia artist, A/V engineer, curator, and educator, Alex Nathanson, led an interactive workshop at Pioneer Works on the use of solar power in art projects on one hot yet stormy Saturday in August. Most attendants had little to no experience working with solar panels, but […]
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 […]
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 […]