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Rooms of their own: Capote, Smith, Basquiat
Prop Styling + Photos: BLOW UP! Though their artistic legends grew from bohemian lives lived in New York City, Truman Capote, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Patti Smith all spent significant time in...
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Thrift Disco Brings Handmade/Vintage Pop-Up Shop to Bat Haus
It’s hard out here in Brooklyn. Every day, we’re bamboozled with a dizzying array of pop-up shops and vintage stores, ephemeral, hidden worlds that seem to promise so much, only we never hear about...
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MOMA PS 1 Is Bringing A Public Arts Festival To Fort Tilden
Photo: Michael Dougherty In what can only be described as some of the best news we’ve heard today: MOMA PS 1, one of our favorite spots in Long Island City, is bringing an arts festival to Fort Tilden...
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BAM Awarded White House Medal
Everyone in New York knows that the Brooklyn Academy of Music is a treasure. Now the United States government has officially recognized BAM’s cultural significance, awarding it with a 2013 National...
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Banishing Blight With the Arts in East New York
Catherine Green, Founder and Executive Director of Arts East New York (Photo: Jeyhoun Allebaugh) East New York has been the topic of a great deal of debate recently—will the blighted, crime-ridden...
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Hyperallergic’s Jillian Steinhauer on the Future of Art in Brooklyn
Earlier this week, we ran our feature on the state of Brooklyn culture. Here is a more extended version of the conversation that we had with Hyperallergic Senior Editor Jillian Steinhauer about what...
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Inside Trans-Pecos, the Inclusive Ridgewood Venue and Community Center
Photos by Tyler Koslow. DIY venues in Brooklyn were at one point a dime a dozen, popping up all over youth-heavy areas like Williamsburg and more recently Bushwick, giving the many NYC-based scenes a...
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Five Ways Brooklyn Arts Organizations Are Preparing for a Trump Presidency
“Our first speaker received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. She probably received the last one ever, thanks to Trump.” Those were moderator Michael Reynolds’s opening remarks at NYC’s...
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Weekly Culture Round-up: 9/6 – 9/12
The History of a Boroughscape — Brooklyn’s architecture has been reactive to the seismic cultural and political shifts of the changing times, from the rapidly modernizing post-industrial landscape of...
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