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, The Art
When the Dow plummeted on Monday after Congress failed to pass a bailout for Wall Street’s many woes, Brooklyn’s creative class was already bracing itself. A downturn at the top of the food chain can’t bode well for those closer to the bottom, like the plethora of visual and performing artists that reside here.
“It’s just a drag,” said Karen Brooks Hopkins, the president of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, whose fall season opens this week. “What I feel bad about is that the arts organizations, the cultural organizations, have finally recovered from 9/11, and now this.
October 1, 2008 City Politics and News
Nowhere in Brooklyn is there a more foreign enclave than Brighton. Under the elevated tracks of the B and Q, caressed by sea breezes, the sidewalks of Brighton Beach Avenue vibrate with a cacophony of voices: the Russian of women hawking pastries, the English of sand-seeking day trippers, the hum of shoppers hailing from Omsk to Kiev.
Our weekly tip sheet on where to see what in the Brooklyn art world. This week’s featured listing is Klompching Gallery’s: “Phillip Toledano: A New Kind of Beauty,” opening Wednesday, September 8, 6-8pm. Click through to read more.
You decide! Are these famous folks tragic or groundbreaking? It’s up to debate. Each note-worthy figure is paired with an …
Your weekly listing of readings and literary events around Brooklyn: a comic artist lands at Desert Island, a funny girl from the Bronx stops in DUMBO, and runner-extraordinaire Christopher McDougall shares advice at WORD.
