Tagged: Emerging Artists

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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Sex, DUIs and Videotape Examined at Pop Up Gallery Site/109

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What more can we ask for but a good old fashion examination of SEX DUIS and VIDEOTAPE? That’s what Site/109 must have thought when they booked this show, running through Sunday, in their newly anointed LES space. Dumbo-based curator Claire Breukel was on hand at the opening reception to give me a short tour of the deceptively spacious pop up space run by social media and publicity mavens Meryl Weinsaft Cooper and Helen Allen.

March 9, 2012 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Multi/Media, Video
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Etsy Artisans to be Profiled on NYC TV

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It seems the local DIY culture is starting to get noticed by the big leagues for its capital power. NYC life gets next to Etsy in a new series.

February 27, 2012 Featured Artists, Multi/Media, The People, Video
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Walls & Bridges Series Showcases Punk Rock Musical Please Kill Me

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Thanks to all the French intellectuals roaming around Brooklyn these days, the Walls & Bridges series delivered to our door many talented young francophones including the cast of the musical Please Kill Me, based on the popular book, an oral history of punk. Read our review and watch video of this one time exclusive performance.

October 26, 2011 Boroughing, Multi/Media, Theater, Video
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Eating Dinner With the Avant Garde

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The best thing about Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant is that it is a good idea that was kept alive through dedication, aspiration and motivation. Its storyline and classic rock inspired song numbers are beautifully tongue in cheek, reek of irony, and rolled in delight.

September 19, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Theater
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From Timbuktu to Brooklyn, A Local Love Story

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Casey Scieszka and Steven Weinberg were strangers when they met in Morocco as exchange students in 2004. Now, Casey, a writer and native Brooklynite, and Steven, an artist, originally from Maryland, both 27, are Park Slopers–they are enjoying the fruits of their unexpected life path. So what happened between then and now?

May 10, 2011 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, The Art
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Aerial Artists House of Yes Stage Their Own Spider Man in Bushwick

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The House of Yes in Bushwick has become the only theater in New York City specifically dedicated to aerial arts. Next Month the aerial troupe will stage their own version of Spider Man, that according to Lady Circus member Kae Burke, “will blow the Broadway version out of the water.”

April 11, 2011 Boroughing, In Brooklyn, Theater
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I Tie, Aitai: Tomoe Tsutsumi Reaches Out to Japan

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“The word ‘Aitai’ means I want to see you or I want to meet you or I miss you. It phonetically sounds the same sounds as ‘I Tie’," New York-based Japanese visual artist Tomoe Tsutsumi explained to me recently.  Tsutsumi was a 2010 artist in residence at Skowhegan School of …

March 25, 2011 Art n' About, Boroughing, The Art
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Full Moon Brightens Bushwick’s Beat Nite

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A certain magic whirled around a particularly windy night in Bushwick recently as winter pushed its way into spring, if only briefly. Along with a mix of sidewalk debris, groups of people hovered near featured galleries, marking their otherwise undetectable entrance ways. The light of the full moon was a nice extra as I made my way to view the participating galleries in Bushwick’s Beat Nite.

February 24, 2011 Art n' About, Boroughing, Night/Life
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Born from the Lens, Artist Trevor Wentworth Builds a Paper World

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For the last nine years, artist Trevor Wentworth has made work at studios in Bushwick, Williamsburg, and most recently Carroll Gardens. His third floor studio on Bergen Street is eight feet wide and twelve feet long, just enough room for the bare essentials. It’s here that Wentworth creates his bracingly complex paper sculptures and miniature tabletop installations, which form at the intersection of the physical and metaphorical definitions of the lens.

December 13, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists
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Artist Michael Caines’ Perfect Happiness is Handsome Jesus-Reagan Cradling a Little Glenn Beck Lamb

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Ever fantasize about a baby-headed Karl Rove cuddling a duchess Ronald Reagan or perhaps a handsome Jesus-Reagan cradling a little Glenn Beck lamb? Greenpoint artist, Michael Caines has dedicated the past year to doing just that.

December 7, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists
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DIY Diane Brings Circus To Life At Home

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If you remember the good old days of Manhattan Neighborhood Network’s (MNN) public access television extravaganza, then you might remember seeing one Diane Dwyer, DIY circus performer and local artist, whose 1994 lo-fi video production of her very own circus hit the airwaves before YouTube was even a twinkle in our eyes. These days her program, Diane’s Circus, is on it’s way to making a comeback – digitally.

November 19, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, Theater
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Fortnight Journal’s New Media Millennials

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Fortnight Journal is a new web project that documents the promise of the millennial generation. On November 11, 2010 BrooklynTheBorough.com will partner with Southpaw to host a benefit performance to raise money for the project featuring rising Brooklyn singer Shilpa Ray & Her Happy Hookers, local rockers Outernational and the legendery Ms.Smtih with guitarist Lenny Kaye.

October 21, 2010 Classic, Culture, Fortnight Journal, In Brooklyn, The People
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Nestled Into Red Hook, The Art Lot Perseveres Without Emphasis on Funding

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Last month the Art Lot in Red Hook opened its most recent show, Media Mix x 4. The collaborative amalgam of painting, architecture, photography and textile includes work by local artists Cynthia Lawson Jaramillo, Babs Reingold, John Roach and Mary Schiliro. “The emphasis is not on selling,” curator Jim Osman tells us.

October 7, 2010 Classic, Featured Artists, Shared Content, The Art
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Brooklyn Artists & Filmmakers Get Hyperlocal in Dharavi

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The weather is getting cooler, but urban planner, visual artist and recent Brooklyn The Borough profile subject Alex White Mazzarella and his team of artists will soon head to warmer pastures. The clan will fully immerse themselves in Dharavi, a slum in Mumbai, India, this winter to document and manifest their experiences as they engage the city through art and film. In this international-meets-hyperlocal update, Mr. Mazzarella tells us about his plans for Mumbai and beyond.

September 13, 2010 Featured Artists, Film
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Artisan Boutique Brooklyn Collective Finds There’s No Place Like Home

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Welcome to the new home of Brooklyn Collective, an artisan gallery and boutique in the Columbia Street Waterfront District that exhibits and sells handcrafted jewelry, clothing, art, and housewares. For the first time since its inception six years ago, the Collective has a space all its own.

August 18, 2010 Art n' About, Classic, Fashion
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Art World Networking in the Digital Age

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For decades, artist registries (think a library containing only encyclopedias filled with slides of artwork) have existed as neutral playing fields where artists can catalog and display their work for curators and gallerists. Now, slide registries are quickly vanishing and sleek, easy-to-use digital databases are becoming the norm, with emerging artists reaping the benefits.

July 30, 2010 Art n' About, Classic, The Art
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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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Gilt Groupe To Revive Yoko Devereaux This Fall

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About a year ago we were sad to bring you news of the demise of Yoko Devereaux, the Williamsburg-based menswear line we cherished for a decade. Now we’re excited to tell you Yoko D is back! Gilt Groupe will exclusively distribute the downtown-meets-uptown line with a revival starting this fall. We caught up with Yoko Devereaux founder and creative maven Andy Salzer to ask about the new line.

July 15, 2010 Classic, Fashion
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A Coffee Shop Tete-a-Tete On Founding and Realizing a Theater Company

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Meet actress and Greenpointer Kate Russell as she tenderly grills Dennis Flanagan, both of the Apothecary Theatre Company about their upcoming Off-Broadway production of Richard Taylor’s In God’s Hat. The show runs at Playwrights Horizons from July 14-August 7, 2010.

July 12, 2010 Classic, Theater
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‘Generative’ Blends Art, Design, and Technology

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“Generative” is difficult to define. A collaboration between artist Alex Dodge and Brooklyn based tech start-up Generative, the series of concept prototypes shown in the gallery seriously blur the boundaries between art, design, and technology.

June 23, 2010 Art n' About, Classic
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Urban-Planner-Turned-Artist Alex White Mazzarella Evokes City Life In His Work

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Brooklyn’s atmosphere constantly inspires artist Alex White Mazzarella. “The people here, the mixing of cultures here, and the energy that exists here are much deeper inspirations than the physical coolness of other cities I’ve been to,” he says.

June 23, 2010 Classic, Featured Artists
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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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Artists Spark Public Conversation About Gentrification In Fort Greene

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According to Laurie Cumbo, founder and director of the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporic Arts in Fort Greene, gentrification is our 800 pound gorilla in the room. In their new exhibit, “The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks” it is her hope that the 22 participating artists will utilize the power of their voice to address it.

February 12, 2010 Art Reviews, Boroughing, Classic, The Art
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Pixel Form Makes Art That’s Electronic and Alive

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Phillip Stearns (a.k.a. Pixel Form) creates art that involves unique networks of wires, connectors, light sensors, and miniature speakers. If you’re willing, his art interacts with you, creating an energetic intimacy between the observer and the observed

February 2, 2010 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, The Art
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Yes Ma’am: Artist Kelli Anderson On Designing For The Yes Men

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Kelli Anderson is a painter, illustrator, photographer, letterpress operator, art history scholar, and a graphic designer; a proper polymath for the 21st Century. But more recently, the New Orleans native has been cutting her teeth as a guerrilla visual communicator. Brooklyn The Borough was fortunate enough to catch up with her, to find out more about her background, her vast and varied body of work, and how she ended up a diabolical creative mastermind in Brooklyn.

November 30, 2009 Boroughing, Classic, Featured Artists, 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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BAM’s Next Wave Art Showcases Artists Across Disciplines

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Open through December 20, BAM’s Next Wave Art, the visual component of the Next Wave Festival showcases works across disciplines. The festival’s featured art includes a video installation, sculpture, graphite drawings, and oil paintings in the lobby of the Howard Gilman Opera House and the adjoining Leonard Natman Room, but the exhibition also spills over into the BAMcafé, the BAMcafé Gallery, and the BAM Harvey Theater.

November 29, 2009 Art n' About, Boroughing, The Art
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In Gowanus, Issue Project Room Founder Is Mourned

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Issue Project Room, an art collective based in Gowanus, lost Suzanne Fiol, the organization’s founding artistic director, to cancer on Monday. Ms. Fiol, 49, dedicated herself to creating an experimental, avant-garde space for performing and visual arts in Brooklyn.

October 6, 2009 Brooklyn Beats, Music Profiles, Theater
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Who Needs Chelsea? Emerging Artists Exhibit In Crown Heights Condos

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The 4th floor of 717 Prospect Place – in the heart of Crown Heights – has been transformed it into a gallery space for Brooklyn-based artists to show their work during the month of September.

September 12, 2009 Art Reviews, Boroughing, Classic, Real Estate, The Art
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