Stephanie Theodore of Theodore:Art was massively disappointed when Arts in Bushwick announced that Bushwick Open Studios was moving from summer to fall in an attempt…
Many Nudes, None By Dudes, at This Art Show Dedicated to the Female Gaze
Opening night for In the Raw: The Female Gaze on the Nude (on view now through May 21 at The Untitled Space) was predictably packed,…
Jeff Koons on His Dream Choo Choo and That Time Lady Gaga ‘Kind of Went Down’ On Him
Last week, when Jeff Koons spoke about an unrealized pet project of his– a giant, actual crane holding up a replica of a “choo choo train”–…
Tonight: A Pop-Up Show for Street Heroines, a New History of Women Street Artists
Tonight, you can catch original works by no fewer than 17 street artists all in one place. In an effort to bring attention (and raise some…
Mastermind of Controversial ‘Bushwick 200’ Project Tries to ‘Heal the Gap’
Rafael Fuchs has lived in Bushwick for the last 11 years. For the first five, Fuchs worked as an independent artist and since 2012 he’s run…
Blurry Backpage Girls and Liquor Bottle Swirls: Paintings for Bukowski
We’ve all seen the “massage girl” advertisements lurking at the back of alternative weeklies and the grainier budget versions of escort ads spamming the nether regions…
Last Dance at Alt Space Before Crew Takes Off On This Baby Bus
Tonight’s your very last chance to say goodbye to the Montrose Avenue location of Alt Space– the netty, uber-hip physical incarnation of Alt Citizen. We told…
A ‘Quite Unorthodox’ Artists Residency Puts Bushwick into Global Perspective
I had a hard time believing I was in the right place, what with shattered glass scattered everywhere and the absence of a sign. I’ve…
A Little Bird Told Me: Aleister Crowley and Genesis P-Orridge in Occult Art Show
“Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people,” Aleister Crowley once said. That maxim echoes inside the walls of a new exhibit at 80WSE, Language of…
Remember When Punk Magazine Made the East Village the Center of the Universe?
In 1976, a comic artist named John Holmstrom begot Punk magazine as an excuse to stalk his favorite bands from the downtown scene, and look cool in…