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Category Archives: Brooklyn
Highland Park’s First Art Installation Consists of Giant Flowers
Highland Park (located in Brooklyn near Queens) is a renovated reservoir park on a high hill in the thick of the city with views that include East New York, the Rockaways, and the ocean. It has a playground and a … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn
Tagged Art in the Parks, Daniele Frazier, Highland Park, Mitchell J. Silver, NYC Parks, The Giant Flowers
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Love to Draw? Check out The Sketchbook Project
Hidden in an unassuming building on a Brooklyn street serrated with empty lots and construction projects is a secret gem. High white shelves line an airy, quiet room with “welcome” written across the wall. Each shelf is jam-packed with varicolored … Continue reading
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Tagged Brooklyn Art Library, draw, Shane Zucker, Steven Peterman, The Sketchbook Project
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The Morbid Anatomy Museum Showcases Dead Kittens
In what is probably New York’s strangest museum, the Morbid Anatomy Museum features exhibits centered on the theme of death. Their latest exhibit, Taxidermy: Art, Science & Immortality Featuring Walter Potter’s Kittens’ Wedding, is dark to say the least. Two … Continue reading
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Tagged dead kittens, Kittens' Wedding, Morbid Anatomy Museum, taxidermy, Walter Potter
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Don’t Go to the Brooklyn Museum This Weekend!
Here’s your PSA: the Brooklyn Museum will be closed this weekend because of an air-conditioning outage. As temperatures soar over 90 in New York City this weekend, the outage is an important reminder of the powerful effect hot weather can … Continue reading
Posted in Brooklyn, NYC, Uncategorized
Tagged ASK app, Brooklyn Museum, closed, heat wave, New York City
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A Stone for Donald
On Easter, March 27 2016, there was very briefly an unusual art installation in Central Park, New York. It was a small marble gravestone, with a birth date but no date of death. The epitaph read “Make America Hate Again.” … Continue reading
Posted in art, Brooklyn, NYC, Uncategorized
Tagged Brian Andrew Whiteley, Central Park, Donald Trump, graveyard, tombstone
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Defaced
Red paintball spatters and white slashes of paint deface a Brooklyn mural, violent across the twenty-seven foot tall grayscale face of a woman. Her hair covered in a dark scarf, mouth erased as part of the original design, she still … Continue reading
Underground Auditions
Anyone who has ridden a New York subway has seen them, buskers playing in twos and threes or simply solo on any of the world’s repertoire of instruments, case open or hat on the ground to catch tossed coins and … Continue reading
Kolonihavehus is a Night-Light for a Giant’s Home
Tom Fruin’s sculputre Kolonihavehus is a night-light for a giant’s home. Currently on show in the Brooklyn Bridge Park, the shed-sized steel and plexiglass house is a feast of color, glowing brilliantly at night from lights both inside and out, … Continue reading
Don’t Miss Out on Kehinde Wiley at the Brooklyn Museum
Kehinde Wiley is a prolific contemporary artist whose works push the boundaries of portraiture. According to his bio, “Los Angeles native and New York based visual artist, Kehinde Wiley has firmly situated himself within art history’s portrait painting tradition. As … Continue reading
NYC Is Rich with Holiday Entertainment
Anyone who has spent even just a few days in New York City during December knows that it’s one of the most magical places to experience the holiday season. The city and all of its lights, colors, smells, and sounds … Continue reading
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