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Studying Homemade Sex Toys at Nurture Art
On May 20, Kenya (Robinson) and Illya Szilak will discuss health and sexuality issues in prisons, through the lens of fleshlights.
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From Books by Black Women to Electricians' Stories, a Show Catalogues Alternative Archives
An exhibition at Nurture Art features evolving collections of art and testimony from people too often left out of official histories.
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Peruse a Pop-Up Library of Books by Black Women Authors in Bushwick
On April 2, exchange and peruse books by black women authors at OlaRonke Akinmowo's Free Black Women's Library at NURTUREart.
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Art Is Free …Sometimes
There are many an artist who dedicate themselves to subverting the commodification of their own work and the current exhibition at Nurture Art, Is This Free?, addresses the topic with a three-part summer exhibition.
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Bushwick Basel, a Very Small Art Fair
Despite Bushwick Basel’s tongue-in-cheek name, the title suits this new art fair, as it is an art fair, albeit a very, very small one. Bushwick Basel, which consisted this year of 11 local galleries, is the kind of fair you could imagine Nada or Pulse being like when they first began — a fair that f
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Risky Business
A liver shot in boxing is a short, quick body punch delivered to the liver with a left hook. The effect can be devastating. (Bernard Hopkins knocked out Oscar De La Hoya with such a shot.) Unfortunately, the tool is often overlooked in today's prizefights, as boxers prefer headhunting with right-han
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WTF Is Up with Bushwick? Panel Discussion on the Future of Its Art Scene This Thurs
Hyperallergic has always kept its finger on the pulse of Bushwick's growing art scene. This Thursday Hyperallergic editor, Hrag Vartanian, broadens the discussion, as he moderates the "Confronting Bushwick: A Discussion on the Nature and Future of the Bushwick Art Scene" panel at Bushwick's Bogart S
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Reflecting on Nurture Art's "We Are" Summer Experiment
We Are is Nurture Art’s summer innitative. All summer the nonprofit has lent its gallery space out to a number of Brooklyn-based artists, curators and galleries. According to the organization’s website: "This hybrid between art festival, short-term residency program and neighborhood jamboree is a ho
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Nurture Art Moving to Heart of Bushwick's Art Scene
The well-respect nonprofit arts organization Nurture Art signed a lease today for a new space at 56 Bogart Street, which is quickly transforming into the hub of Bushwick's burgeoning nonprofit arts and gallery scene.
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Summer Guests in Bushwick
The mercury in your thermometer can easily climb to 100+ degrees during these dog days of summer in north Brooklyn's Bushwick neighborhood. The concrete streets are helplessly desolate and even the Bushwick pigeons seem to have given up. Bushwick has been quieter lately, and the local art scene migh
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Is Ornament a Crime?
A small coconut tree grows in the corner of Nurture Art. Simply titled “Coconut” (2009), and created by artist Gudmundur Thoroddsen, the leaves seem to reach towards the skylight. A certain twist makes it art — a few of the leaves are painted pink. It resembles one of Matisse’s colorful trees come t
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Beyond Monotony: Nietzsche’s Eternal Return at Nurture Art
Repetition in art can be so juicy … when it’s done right. But second-rate minimalism has so deeply traumatized all us with its dull monotony and draining sense of sameness. Indeed, the fear that your favorite professor heard or saw you yawning after the 18th Judd slide in that dark lecture room bind