Posts Tagged ‘Brooklyn’
Painting Like Pollock on the Coney Island Boardwalk
A lot has gone down on the boardwalk in Coney Island, that's for sure, but how about a woman painting circles with her wheelchair or a guy diving onto a slip-n-slide full of paint? This past weekend those were just two of the unique ways Brooklynites helped create ten large scale abstract paintings as part of an interactive performance art event [...]
Urban Society Through Abstract Art
Two years ago, Alex White Mazzarella was living in Hong Kong, working as a city planner. Now, he is a Brooklyn-based abstract artist, showing regularly in the city and selling to collectors in Denmark, Norway, France, Italy, and across the States. And he has his former boss to thank. "One day I handed my boss a proposal for a planning project, [...]
Filmmaker Cameron Yates Premieres ‘The Canal Street Madam’ at BAM
While vacationing in the South during the summer of 2003, Brooklyn filmmaker Cameron Yates read a local newspaper story about Jeannette Maier, a convicted New Orleans madam who had run a brothel with her mother and daughter. Intrigued, he tracked her down at a halfway house, and what started as a three-hour phone conversation turned into Yates’ [...]
Building Brooklyn: Habitat for Humanity Gets a Helping Hand
Just steps from the G train on a nondescript block of Lafayette Avenue, three black SUVs lined the street and cameramen held umbrellas over their equipment. As Bedford-Stuyvesant residents sloshed down the sidewalk through the rain, Spike Lee and Marty Markowitz stood with a small suited crowd under a white tent in front of a construction site. [...]
Book It! Get Ready for the Biggest Brooklyn Book Festival
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New York City’s biggest book festival is getting even bigger. Yesterday, the Brooklyn Literary Council announced a star-packed line up for this year’s Brooklyn Book Festival, which will take place on Sunday, September 12. Brooklyn has long been a hub for writers and bookworms, but the festival, now in its fifth year, is attracting talent from [...]
First Time Artist at the SONYA Studio Stroll
On Saturday, May 15 and Sunday, May 16, the South of the Navy Yards Artists opened their studios and galleries to the public. I talked with John Scheffler, a set and costume designer for 45 years, about his experience during the stroll. Although he has lived and worked in Fort Greene for 25 years, this is the first time Scheffler participated in [...]
The Invisible Dog Art Center
When Lucien Zayan rented the building at 51 Bergen St. in Boerum Hill last spring, the three-story factory was falling apart and filled with junk. In less than a year, Zayan transformed the building into an art center with two exhibition spaces and twenty-five artists studios. From 1970 to 1995, the building functioned as a belt factory. The [...]
Artisan Food Market in Greenpoint
When Josh Kace and his roommates starting making jerky for fun, they never thought their dried meat would turn into a business. But after two years of experimenting, they realized their snack appealed to people outside of their friends and family. They founded SlantShack Jerky, rented a table at the Greenpoint Food Market last December, and sold [...]