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A Group Gathers to Figure Out How to Get Artists Paid
On February 20, the Get Artists Paid alliance will meet in person for the first time, at Silent Barn, to discuss the lack of compensation for creators.
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A Noise Festival Makes Melody in Strange Ways
Ende Tymes, the increasingly extensive “festival of noise and abstract liberation,” successfully returned for its fifth incarnation last week.
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Painting with the City's Invasive Plants
Many of the native plants in New York have been pushed out of the city's concrete expanses, but that's not to say the boroughs don't have a botanic profile. Artist Ellie Irons has spent three summers cultivating and creating pigments from the invasive plant species that have taken root in vacant lot
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Exploring the Southern Edge of Bushwick Open Studios
There aren't as many outskirts to Bushwick Open Studios as there once were. The 2013 edition was brimming even at the very edges of designated "Bushwick," which really oozes over into the adjacent East Williamsburg and Ridgewood, though it seems steadfast in not stepping over the Broadway line to Be
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Important Queens DIY Venue Rebuilds after Burglary
Late Monday night, word quickly got around that the beloved DIY arts and music venue on the border of Queens and Brooklyn, Silent Barn, had been burglarized. $15,000 of musical equipment, handmade art and valuables was taken from the venue, and the place was violently trashed.