This past weekend, Japanophiles got their fix at Tokyo x Brooklyn, which brought a heaping helping of kawaii to the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint. The festival…
Cotton Candy Machine Sends Out Distress Signal as W-burg Water Gets Brackish
Cotton Candy Machine, the South Williamsburg gallery owned by painter Tara McPherson and her partner Sean Leonard, is sending out a call for help. “Cotton…
Meet the the Punks, Losers, and Screw-Ups of the LES at This Barroom Exhibit
Tis the season to celebrate the Lower East Side, so get thee to “Punks, Losers, Screw-ups and Goofballs,” a new exhibit at the recently opened 174 Rivington Street Bar and…
Musical Saw Festival Is Going Be Amazing Any Way You Slice It
Saws aren’t just for Texas chainsaw massacres — they can also be put to use by musicians, as the New York City Musical Saw Festival…
Catch This Play About Water and a Flood of Facts About Newtown Creek
Water conservation isn’t just a California problem — starting Thursday, a series of talks and tours will bring attention to East Williamsburg’s English Kills, one of the most polluted…
How a Bushwick Art Witch Taught Me to ‘Own My Fruit’
I was lying on a yoga mat in a Bushwick loft with two quartz minerals on either side of my head, when the “art witch”…
‘We Call It Mutt Food’: Pokito Now Serving Latin-Asian in South Williamsburg
The group of Pratt alums who opened Pokito were tired of the typical Williamsburg look — “it’s all the re-claimed woods, steel, dark, all the…
Art Openings: Twisted Fairy Tales, Drug Tourists and More
Time again for our weekly roundup of what’s new on the art scene. Buccaneer, Masquerade, Suspence, Abundance, Thorn, Champion. Recent works by Brice Brown April…
This Electro Installation Will Be a ‘Futuristic-Psychedelic Version of the Past’
Yesterday we stopped by D & F Contemporary, a new gallery located in a former discount lingerie store at the corner of Delancey and Orchard, to…
A Studio Visit With Tara McPherson, ‘Queen of Cotton Candy Wet Dreams’
One recent morning in Tara McPherson’s Bed-Stuy studio, the artist’s easel was loaded with sketches of two nearly identical girls connected by a sparkling rainbow springing…