Category: Photo

Kathleen Hanna (2010) Photo courtesy of Aliya Naumoff

Kathleen Hanna Wants a Revolution and Makes Her Mark

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The SXSW film premiere of The Punk Singer, a documentary on the life of Kathleen Hanna, happened in Austin, Texas last week. The documentary on the Bikini Kill, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin singer and longtime activist, artist and de facto leader of the 90s feminist movement riot grrrl, Kathleen, along with producer Tamra Davis and director Sini Anderson answered questions in a DIY media blitz down south. Special guest appearance by Amanda Palmer.

March 19, 2013 Boroughing, Classic, Film, Multi/Media, Music Profiles, Photo, Video
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FAILE Invade Lincoln Center With Trojan Tower Full of Youth

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The FAILE tower has been assembled under the forty-foot tall ceiling of this luscious alter to New York’s cultural dominance.

February 13, 2013 Art Reviews, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, New, Photo
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Legendary Artists COST, ENX, SET attend Lincoln Center FAILE Preview

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I spent the majority of my evening last Monday surveying the crowd at Lincoln Center’s preview of Les Ballets de FAILE for anyone who looked like a possible graffiti artist.

February 13, 2013 Art Reviews, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Photo
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Obsessed With Nature, Ryan James MacFarland Among First Artists at Upstate Shandaken Project

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Local photographer and artist Ryan James MacFarland is preparing for his next show, but was among the first to attend the Shandaken Project residency in upstate New York aimed at creating “a space where experimentation, process, and research are privileged as ends in and of themselves.”

January 10, 2013 Boroughing, Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Photo
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PHOTOS: Street Arts with taeOne and THANEONE

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These are the real local natives.

December 12, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, New, Night/Life, Photo
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Andy Warhol with his assistant Gerard Malanga filming Taylor Mead for Warhol’s “Taylor Mead’s Ass” at the Factory.

Exclusive Uncovered Photographs of a Young, Ambitious Warhol

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At the new gallery Site/109 on Norfolk Street recently, the photographer William John Kennedy and his lovely wife Marie, now advanced in age, walked me through an extraordinary collection of Mr. Kennedy’s prints on view for the exhibit Before They Were Famous: Behind The Lens of William John Kennedy running through May 29. They were telling me the story of how they met and came to photograph Andy Warhol and Robert Indiana as emerging American artists.

May 5, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Photo
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Santigold Saves the Day, Masters Our Make-Believe

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The business savvy songstress, returned to her fans after four years of silence, came at her audience with a powerful message and they were ready to listen. On the eve of May Day, also the release of her second album Master of My Make-Believe (Downtown/Atlantic), her songs ring true as dark pop with a worldly punk twist, burrowing deep into our souls and forcing modicums of truth into the ether that sorely need recognition.

May 5, 2012 Audio, Boroughing, Classic, Multi/Media, Music Reviews, Photo
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Public Art Project Looks at Impermanent Life in the City

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We first introduced you to Iztiar Barrio in December 2009 when she placed a billboard atop a building at the corner of Fulton and Nostrand in Bed-Stuy proclaiming it the new paradise. On Friday September 30, Ms. Barrio will take on another public art project called The Blue Wall Project, this time tapping into the impermanence of the city in – where else? – Williamsburg.

September 22, 2011 Art n' About, Boroughing, Film, Multi/Media, Photo
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Will Brooklyn/Queens Border Boast Prime Real Estate Along Newtown Creek? Just Wait 100 Years

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On my trip down the Newtown Creek aboard Captain John Lipscomb’s ship – before the city’s bout of winter madness – we grazed through a putrid-smelling “rotting mud,” described by the captain as the result of a century of contaminants being poured, dumped, or leaked into the creek by polluters. But, he told me, “in one hundred years this could be prime real estate.”

February 4, 2011 Boroughing, City Politics, Classic, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Photo, Video
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Thriving Crown Heights Community Hub ‘LaunchPad’ Introduces Neighbors

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LaunchPad is an arts-based community center in Crown Heights. Started by Mike Kunitzky last winter, the space transforms depending on what neighborhood groups want to use it for. “I wanted a place where people could exchange ideas and make things happen,” says Kunitzky, a constantly smiling 35-year-old. “There’s potential for magic in those unexpected talents and interactions.”

December 17, 2010 Art n' About, Boroughing, Culture, Multi/Media, Photo, The People
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: A Stroll Down Pitkin Avenue

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Extended through November, he will bring us the final two chapters from his return to Brooklyn series, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury.

November 3, 2010 Classic, Multi/Media, Photo, Read Features
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: Back To Brownsville

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the fourth chapter.

October 27, 2010 Classic, Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
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Queerespondence Got Its Zombie on DownSouth

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The October Queerespondence, our inaugural night at Southpaw, was a blast! Here’s the documentation of the Night of the Living Queers party by resident photographer and stand up guy Michael Popp.

October 20, 2010 Features, Multi/Media, Photo, Queerespondence
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Martin Lemelman’s Two Cents Plain: The Critique

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the second chapter.

October 13, 2010 Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
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Graphic Novelist Martin Lemelman Illustrates His Brooklyn Boyhood

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BrooklynTheBorough.com is excited to feature the work of graphic novelist and native Brooklynite Martin Lemelman. Throughout October he will bring us new chapters from his Brooklyn life, original work based on his latest novel Two Cents Plain, released in August on Bloomsbury. Here is the first chapter.

October 6, 2010 Guest Authors, Multi/Media, Photo, The Read
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Riot Grrrl Molly Neuman Gets Back in the Kitchen

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I’m sitting in Molly Neuman’s kitchen, where the punk rocker, newly incarnated as a chef and proprietor of Simple Social Kitchen, is making a tortilla de patata. She’s hardly the first musician to create a new career in food, but although it’s not quite a movement, there is something superficially similar about the two careers. “For me the connection is creativity, being able to make something from an idea,” she says, when I ask her what the similarities are between cooking and music. Of course, there’s much more to it than that.

October 5, 2010 Classic, Food, Multi/Media, Photo
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The Dish: Visit the Sunset Park Greenmarket for Guacamole with Papalo

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Despite its tiny size, the Sunset Park Greenmarket has a sizeable proportion of produce geared towards the Latin market, with crates of fresh peppers (poblanos, jalapeños, cherry peppers), tomatillos, squash, epazote, and other herbs both foreign and flavorful. Find out what I did with this amazing array of fresh herbs and veggies with a recipe for guacamole and papalo.

August 16, 2010 Classic, Food, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Photo, Recipes
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The Daptone Family Funks Up Prospect Park

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This Saturday Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings (backed by the Bushwick Philharmonic!) are bringing a full ‘Super Soul Revue’ to Celebrate Brooklyn in Prospect Park. Our resident photographer Jacob Blickenstaff shot some great backstage portraits of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings before they hit the stage at their last New York show at the Apollo Theater back in May.

August 6, 2010 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Photo
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The Dish: Sweet Corn Humitas

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Like a fresh version of the tamale, the South American humita is a custard-like mixture of ground corn kernels, packed in its own husks and steamed on top of stripped cobs, sweet and sometimes spicy, often made with quesillo or queso fresco. Stop by your local Farmer’s Market, grab a few cobs and get started on this homemade treat.

August 3, 2010 Classic, In Brooklyn, Multi/Media, Photo, Recipes
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The Ponderosa Stomp Celebrates Unsung Heroes of American Music

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On July 31, the Ponderosa Stomp will feature sixties garage icons Mitch Ryder and ? and the Mysterians, iconoclastic rockers The Gories and Death, nomadic bluesman Eddie Kirkland, stirring soul singers Melvin Davis and Spyder Turner, Motown hitmakers The Velvelettes and Dennis Coffey and R&B all stars The Party Stompers. Photographer Jacob Blickenstaff shares portraits and images from Detroit.

July 27, 2010 Classic, Photo, Show of the Week
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Painting Like Pollock on the Coney Island Boardwalk

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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 featuring local artist Paul Campbell and his counterpart from Singapore, artist Shih Yun Yeo.

July 21, 2010 Art n' About, Classic, Photo
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Williamsburg Gallery Exhibits A Candy Coated Metamorphosis

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Kyoung Eun Kang’s Happy Birthday is a stunning, disturbing piece, a reflection upon the messiness of birth and life and runs through June 13, 2010 at A.M. Richard Fine Art, in Williamsburg.

May 20, 2010 Art n' About, Classic, Multi/Media, Photo, The Art
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Designer Christopher Swift Creates New Brooklyn The Borough Logo

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A few weeks ago BrooklynTheBorough.com began its search for a new logo to grace its pages and we were lucky enough to find just the right fit with a design by Christopher Swift.

May 7, 2010 Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Photo, The Art
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Slideshow! Street Art New York

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Rumor has it that the main reason for President Obama’s trip to New York this morning was not to discuss financial regulatory reform, but rather to see the new Shepard Fairey wall on Houston Street, a few short blocks south of Cooper Union where he spoke. This Sunday April 24, 7-9:30pm, Mr. Fairey’s work will also hang on the walls of Factory Fresh Gallery in Bushwick for the Street Art New York Silent Auction to end all auctions, raising cash for Free Arts NYC.

April 22, 2010 Art n' About, Multi/Media, Photo, The Art
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Viva Variety! Artist J.T. Yost Spreads the Wealth

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Brooklyn The Borough enjoyed a raucous chat with the Yost, where we found out more about his work, his move to Brooklyn, and why the mural he’s been working on for his soon-to-be born daughter features a pigeon and an everything bagel. Trust us, it will all come together.

November 30, 2009 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Photo, The Art
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A Beirut Walks Into A Bar

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“It’s awesome to play at this theater and have people up front,” said Beirut frontman Zach Condon (above, right) to a second sold out crowd at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Opera House last Saturday. “It’s better.”
Not everyone in the seated audience agreed as hordes of fans rushed to the stage to get just a little bit closer to the folksy wunderkind, whose orchestra arrived halfway through the performance armed with glockenspiels. The two shows kicked off the Sounds Like Brooklyn festival last Friday, and the $20 tickets were fetching a hefty price on Craigslist.
After the first performance, we hear Zach and the band headed over to No. 7 bar for a drink, nearby on Greene Avenue, to find that the whitewashed walls weren’t the only stark contrast in the room full of show-goers.

February 9, 2009 Brooklyn Beats, Classic, Multi/Media, Photo
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BTB in Forbes

Get tips on surviving the working world in [insert your cultural field here] and how to spin it off into your own thing. Read the Forbes interview on entrepreneurship and new media with founding editor Nicole Brydson.

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