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Brooklyn’s Pratt Institute Centralizes Its Formerly Diffuse MFA Fine Arts Studios
The school's studios for graduate students in Fine Arts are now all housed under one roof, in the hulking former Pfizer factory on Flushing Avenue.
Bushwick
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As Bushwick Open Studios Shifts Gears, Who Gets Left Behind?
Arts in Bushwick kicked off a more studio-centric program last weekend with a 300-artist exhibition and the release of Making History Bushwick, a nearly 500-page book telling the organization’s story and showcasing work by hundreds of local artists.
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Paintings Playfully Distilled from 18th-Century European Portraiture
Currently on view in the project room at ART 3 in Bushwick are a half-dozen canvases by Deborah Brown, consisting of figures, some based literally, others emblematically, on the portrait styles of various historical periods.
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Bushwick Gets Lit with a Show of Sculptural Lamps
Once actually home to a 99-cent store, 99¢ Plus Gallery currently resembles a business in the lighting district on the Bowery — one that would take the cake for the most eccentric wares along that electrified stretch.
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Glenn Ligon Deconstructs Richard Pryor’s Stand-Up
When Richard Pryor strode through an audience of fans and celebrities at the Hollywood Palladium on December 9, 1981, the comedian — always renowned for his candor and vulnerability — was exposed in an altogether new way.
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An Immersive Theater Trip to a 1970s Tropical Paradise
Only minutes after walking through a hallway painted like the cabin of an airplane and handing my mock boarding pass to a charming man in a Hawaiian shirt, who greeted me with a lei, I was in a secret room getting a tarot reading.
Art
An Exhibition to Mark the Canonization of Saint Bowie
There has been a David Bowie-shaped void in the souls of many since January 10.
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Bye-bye Brands, Hello Art? Bushwick Open Studios Is Moving from June to October
Arts in Bushwick surprised artists last week with an understated email announcing “a few changes to our programming dates.”
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Activists and Residents Light Up Bushwick with Anti-Gentrification Signs
Since Christmas Eve, some lights along the streets and in the houses of Bushwick have spelled out a number of messages quite different from the festive wishes one usually finds during the holiday season.
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Artist Will Remove Bushwick Crochet Mural that Sparked Community Protest
A 15-foot-tall crocheted mural that appeared, unauthorized, on the side of a private Bushwick residence and has since stirred debate about gentrification and street art is coming down today.
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New Bushwick Gallery Promises to Exhibit "Subversive and Difficult Art"
A new gallery is opening on Meserole Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn, next month, and according to its eponymous director, Christopher Stout, it will have a “program of showing subversive and difficult art.”
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Artworks Cobbled Together from Immigrant Experiences
Art about identity politics, personal history, and cultural heritage is seen all too rarely in Bushwick galleries, where formal and material concerns tend to dominate.