Bushwick’s forthcoming beer garden, The Well, still isn’t ready for nightly revelry (sometime in July, rumor has it) but thanks to the Juicy Art Festival, you can go hang out there and drink tonight and all day tomorrow. If you enjoyed all the live painting at Bushwick Open Studios last weekend, you’ll definitely want to head to The Well’s back courtyard to see the likes of Magda Love, Iena Cruz, Son and Werc fill up the enormous walls.
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There Were Rockers and Stilt Walkers at the Bushwick Collective Block Party
The third annual Bushwick Collective Block Party went down yesterday on Troutman Street and, like most everything else in the city these days, it was bigger than ever before. More artists live painting more murals. More food trucks and various vendors. More bands, more beer, and just more actual street, as the whole block between Wyckoff and St. Nicholas and was shut down for the day.
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Forget Rubick’s Cube, Check Out Rubin’s Cube at Succulent Studios
New Greenpoint gallery/event space Succulent Studios goes two-for-two with another fresh and fun exhibition, a collection of seven installations by seven different artists.
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Watch Smart Crew Destroy a Hotel Lobby With Sharpies and Sledgehammers
By any measure, sceney boutique hotel SIXTY Soho (formerly 60 Thompson) is a fancy place. Which, of course, only added to the fun the other night when about 200 people crammed into the lobby and tagged the shit out the place. And THEN the sledgehammers came out…
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Didn’t Make It to NADA or Cutlog? Here’s a Fairly Comprehensive Tour
There were at least a dozen art and design fairs all over the city this past weekend, anchored by the glitzy-beyond-belief Frieze NYC on Randall’s Island, home of the $40,000 slab of torn blue packing foam and $16 burritos from (holla!) Mission Cantina.
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Here’s Frank Ape Monkeying Around in a Former East Village Bodega
We knew Brandon Sines was taking over a former East Village bodega with a Frank Ape free-for-all. What we didn’t know until we got to Specials on C Saturday night was that the show would feature PORNO starring the artist’s hairy, deep-thinking (uh, not really) character. Yikes! But don’t worry: it was tastefully sequestered in the “XXX Adults Only XXX” section.
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In East Williamsburg, a Fresh Take On Martha Cooper’s ’70s LES Photos
The challenge is always the same: how to translate the urgency, the lawlessness, the serendipity of discovery inherent in street art and graffiti into the gallery setting. For street artist/graffiti writer Elle, the answer lay in a collaboration with legendary street photographer Martha “Marty” Cooper, and the result is the excellent exhibition at East Williamsburg’s Mecka gallery, “Unextinguished.”
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Is It Called Street Art When It’s On a Rooftop?
Saturday’s perfect spring weather coincided nicely with the first rooftop party of the season at The 407 Bushwick, an outdoor gallery and party space above Johnson Avenue in, obviously, Bushwick.
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Bushwick’s Massive New Beer Garden, The Well, Aims to Open Next Month
(Photo: Scott Lynch)
One of the highlights of last weeks’s Newmerica show (besides the bodega in an art gallery) came when the party spilled into the adjoining beer garden.
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Some Artists Built a Bodega Inside of a Bushwick Gallery
Last night Bushwick’s Exit Room gallery hoisted the flag for “Newmerica: The Birth of a Nation,” a tightly-focused group show (and burgeoning art collective?) of new works from Icy and Sot, NDA, Sonni, Matta Ruda, and LNY. Some of the work was so new, in fact, the LNY was still finishing his final piece even after the crowds started to arrive.
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