In Brief
Street Artist Sues Developer for Using His Mural to Sell Condos
The street artist Craig Anthony Miller is suing the real estate developer Toll Brothers for using a mural he painted in Dumbo, Brooklyn, to market a nearby condo development.
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Hymns for a Poisoned World at the Prototype Festival
The third season of the Prototype: Opera/Theatre/Now festival opened ominously last week, with 31 young women dressed in black singing against the evil that can come with group control.
News
Brooklyn Gallery Responds to Police Brutality With an Open Call
The nonprofit art space Smack Mellon in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood is planning an open call exhibition in response to the non-indictments of the police officers who killed Mike Brown in Ferguson and Eric Garner in Staten Island, and the protests that followed.
Art
Get Your Fix of a Sinister Post-Human Future
Artist Saya Woolfalk has created a little utopian hive of serenity in the large front gallery of the Smack Mellon in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
Art
Artists Probe Urban Agriculture
While food culture has shifted to local production and sustainable farming, there's also a vein of art taking these issues into projects that mix agriculture with activism.
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Artists Probe Urban Agriculture
While food culture has shifted to local production and sustainable farming, there's also a vein of art taking these issues into projects that mix agriculture with activism.
News
Whither Dumbo Arts Center?
Since the Dumbo Arts Center was founded in 1997 as the neighborhood's first nonprofit arts organization, the once overlooked industrial segment of Brooklyn in the shadow of the monolithic Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges has seen rising real estate prices and shifting demographics, so that while some
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Somewhere Beyond Nowhere and a Sugar Carpet
After sustaining significant damage from Hurricane Sandy, Smack Mellon has reopened with two installations that seem frozen in time. Quebec artist Aude Moreau coated the floor of the front gallery in a blanket of sugar laced with charcoal designs, and Brooklyn-based Janet Biggs' two-channel video in
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This Weekend: Navigating the 2012 Dumbo Arts Festival
Dumbo Arts Festival returns this weekend (Friday, September 28–Sunday, September 30) for a cross-cultural moshpit of multimedia exhibitions, events, performances, and installations.
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The Magic of Jean Nouvel's Carousel Fun House
Approaching Fulton Landing from the East River Jean Nouvel's new pavilion for Jane's Carousel is less impressive than I was expecting. The squat box made of what I initially thought was transparent glass and sea-foam green metal appears dwarfed by the massive Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges that brac
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Planting the Seeds of Revolution in DUMBO
Even the ambitious curators of Can't Hear the Revolution at Kunsthalle Galapagos admit that revolutions tend to happen slowly. But that doesn't mean they're not determined. With the debut show for the new Kunsthalle Galapagos curators, they are fixing the roots of what they hope will grow into an in
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Summer in DUMBO: A Visit to the Sharpe Foundation
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation's "Space Program" offers seventeen emerging artists a year's worth of studio space and a summer show in DUMBO. Here's a look.