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Bushwick Artists, Get In on This Group Portrait of the ‘Very Magical’ Art Scene

(Photo: via Wikipedia)

(Photo by Art Kane – courtesy Art Kane Archive.)

A riddle: how do you get all the artists in Bushwick in the same place at the same time? Tell them that everyone is going to be there. 

In anticipation of the Bushwick Open Studios, the neighborhood arts festival happening this year in October, photographer Meryl Meisler is trying to get a group photo of every artist who calls the artistically vibrant Brooklyn neighborhood home. To do so, Meisler and writer James Panero, who is curating the project, have put out a call for any artist who is planning on being involved in BOS this October to meet tomorrow at 11 a.m. outside Stout Projects on Meadow Street.

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Vinyl For Reals: Go See Meryl Meisler’s Photos of ’70s NYC

Kissing in Black Leather Jackets During last Dead Boys Concert CBGB, New York, NY April 1977 (Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York)

Kissing in Black Leather Jackets During last Dead Boys Concert CBGB, New York, NY April 1977 (Courtesy Steven Kasher Gallery, New York)

We love Meryl Meisler, the New York-born photographer who documented Bushwick, Manhattan and Long Island in the disco era. And HBO’s new show, Vinyl, has further whetted our appetite for ’70s NYC. So we’re excited to hear that a selection of Meisler’s earliest work will be on display at the Steven Kasher Gallery in Chelsea, starting next Thursday. The exhibition will include a large selection of black-and-white prints taken in some of Manhattan’s mythical disco and punk clubs (CBGBs, Studio 54, Les Mouches, Hurrah) and in her hometown of Massapequa, affectionately coined “Matzo-Pizza” by the locals for its large Jewish and Italian population. It’s an urban-suburban milieux worthy of Richie Finestra himself.

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