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Williamsburg Warehouse Fire Leaves Artists in the Cold
The fire that consumed a file storage warehouse on the Williamsburg waterfront a week and a half ago has left artists in the building next door reeling.
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Williamsburg Waterfront Fire Could Reignite Park Plans, Including Museum
The warehouse still smoldering on the Williamsburg waterfront may draw new attention to this East River–aligned stretch of Brooklyn, where city officials have long planned for an extensive park and small museum.
Interview
Meet Moiety, North Williamsburg's Newest Gallery
Has Williamsburg's supercharged gentrification cycle come full circle and spurred a new influx of galleries? How else to explain the opening of two new art galleries in the neighborhood in the last two months?
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Uterus Man, Pelvis Chariot, and the Irreverent Video Games of Lu Yang
If there’s any space that both parallels and accommodates Lu Yang’s highly exhilarating and provocative works, it's a sprawling arcade, a cornucopia of weirdness and inappropriate ideas.
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What Does Kara Walker's Sugary Sphinx Tell Us?
One of the season's most anticipated art events will finally open to the public tomorrow. Kara Walker's "A Subtlety," aka the "Marvelous Sugar Baby," is the renowned artist's first public artwork.
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Welcoming a New Gallery to Williamsburg
History has it that over the past two decades, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has gentrified beyond recovery and its flourishing art scene picked up and gone elsewhere. This may be partly true, but not entirely. There are still artists and galleries in Williamsburg.
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An Annual Floor-to-Ceiling Cross Section of Contemporary Art
The walls of Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg have erupted with its annual salon-style group show, where hundreds of artists are represented in a mosaic of work that leaves only slivers of open white space.
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All Style, No Substance: Williamsburg in 3D
Stereoscopic, or 3D, vision is a technique usually associated these days with blockbuster movies. But, using a simple stereo camera, Carlton Bright rollerbladed around Williamsburg from 2003 to 2013 documenting a series of “modules” or “vignettes” about the neighborhood he loves and calls home.
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Single Point Perspective: Munk and Me
In Loren Munk’s painting "An Attempted Documentation of Williamsburg, 1981-2008” (2008-2011), I recognized a slice of my own history in a place I had known well. After a lifetime of looking at paintings, this experience was oddly new to me.
Opinion
Online Archive Brings '90s Williamsburg Warehouse Culture to Life
Grungy Williamsburg is a thing of the past. Warehouses can still be found around the neighborhood, but for the most part, they've slowly turning into more than just artist lofts, and the penniless bohemia of yesteryears has largely ceded their territory to bars, music venues, clubs, restaurants, cof
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As Northside Rolls In, Williamsburg Artists Face Eviction
Those headed to Northside Art this weekend should make sure to visit the handful of open studios at 338 Berry Street, because those spaces won't be studios for much longer. About six weeks ago, the 10 tenants still residing in live-and-work studios in the building lost their court battle with their
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Brooklyn Designer Held Without Bail for Hanging Plastic Bags from Trees
File this under WTF: Japanese Takeshi Miyakawa, who lives in Brooklyn, was arrested for hanging a plastic bag filled with LED lights from a tree in Greenpoint, and he's now being held without bail for 30 days. Miyakawa's installation of glowing "I Love NY" bags was meant as a tribute to the city, in