Posts Tagged ‘exhibit’
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 [...]
Art and the Gowanus
On March 2, the Environmental Protection Agency designated Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal a Superfund site, meaning that the area is one of the most polluted sites in the nation. With clean up plans underway, everyone from the mayor's office to local business owners is talking about what the Superfund means to them. As part of a collaborative project we [...]
A Book About Death
"A Book About Death" closed this week at the Queens Museum. The exhibit featured postcards exploring the meaning of mortality created by more than 500 artists.