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Nolita Just Got a Pop-Up Beach With Artsy Towels and 7,000 Pounds of Sand

July 10, 2015 By Rob Scher

Welcome to Nolita Beach (photo: Tictailerooni)

Hot damn, it’s summer in the city. In celebration, a pop-up beach just appeared for the weekend at 171 Elizabeth Street. “Nolita Beach,” reads a blue neon sign outside the tiny gallery filled with 7,000 pounds of beach sand. Appropriately draped along its walls, like a set of functional tapestries, are beach towels created by ten prominent New York designers such as Jessica Walsh and Damien Correll. The crazed brain behind this bohemian beach is Tictail, an online marketplace where designers and artists create their own stores (think a less crunchy Etsy.)

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Tags: beach, soho, summer, This is happening, Tictail

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Federico García Lorca, Back in the New York Groove

July 3, 2015 By Daniel Maurer

(Photo: Daniel Maurer)

Federico García Lorca once again achieved Poet in New York status when a mural depicting the Spanish literary lion went up in Bushwick a couple of years ago. Now he’s returned to Manhattan, where he studied at Columbia in 1929 and penned “Sleepless City: Brooklyn Bridge Nocturne.” The poem is quoted in this new mural by Spanish artist Raúl Ruiz and Brooklyn’s own Cern.

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Tags: Arts + Culture, Bushwick, cern, chinatown, city rooms, federico garcia lorca, sex el nino de las pinturas, soho

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Eduardo Sarabia Turned Mexican Narco Imagery Into Fine Art

June 3, 2015 By amiltonnymag

Eduardo Sarabia, “Ballads” exhibit. (photo: Rob Scher)

Paper holds much value, even when it’s not green, with Franklin’s unsmiling mug on it. A recent MoMA exhibit, for instance, showed Henri Matisse’s appreciation for the potential beauty of tree pulp. Another fellow who seems to have received the memo is Mexican-based artist Eduardo Sarabia, whose most recent exhibit, “Ballads,” opens today at Other Criteria gallery in Soho.
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Tags: art, Damien Hirst, Drugs, Eduardo Sarabia, mexico, soho, This is happening

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Awkwafina Shares Her NYC Subway Horror Stories

June 1, 2015 By amiltonnymag

“Shout outs to the drunk white girls,” exclaimed Awkwafina, gesturing toward a giggling gaggle gathered Thursday night at McNally Jackson Books in Soho. At this month’s installment of the Real Characters storytelling/reading series, the rapper turned New York City tour guide read a couple excerpts from her recently published Awkwafina’s NYC and shared some experiences from a hard-bitten life of riding the rails.
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Tags: Arts + Culture, Awkwafina, mcnally jackson books, soho, Williamsburg

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Marvel Over ‘Mawencol’ Artist Mark Hogancamp’s Largest Exhibit Yet

May 12, 2015 By Daniel Maurer

(Photo of Mark Hogancamp’s photo, by Daniel Maurer)

Last time we admired the art of Mark Hogancamp, subject of the fantastic documentary Marwencol, it was in Red Hook, at a Pioneer Works exhibit that focused on the female figures who populate the miniature World War II-era village that he built in his Kingston, New York backyard. Since then, Steve Carrell has signed on to play Hogancamp in Robert Zemeckis’ dramatic adaptation of the doc, and now the real-life Hogie is returning to city for what will be his largest exhibit to date.

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Tags: allouche gallery, Arts + Culture, Beyond, kingston, mark hogancamp, marwencol, one mile gallery, soho

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Art Openings: Twisted Fairy Tales, Drug Tourists and More

April 16, 2015 By Angelica Frey

Time again for our weekly roundup of what’s new on the art scene.

Art by Brice Brown

Buccaneer, Masquerade, Suspence, Abundance, Thorn, Champion. Recent works by Brice Brown
April 17 (opening reception 7-9pm) to May 23 at Air Circulation, 160 Randolph St., Bushwick.
Kentucky-born artist Brice Brown created a multi-part installation meant to present a fragmented experienece of the still life genre as a way to explore “the dichotomous impulses inherent in the act of domestication: containment and freedom; restraint and release; a need for chaos and a need for order,” per the artist’s statement. The installation, largely consisting of archival pigment prints, wallpaper design and soft sculpture, draws from The Batsford Colour Book of Roses (1962) and pages from an early 20th century fruit and seed catalog. References to the letterhead design of constructivist-influenced masters such as Piet Zwart are embedded in the pieces.

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A Chat With the New Doyenne of the Old Don Hill’s

December 3, 2014 By Daniel Hoffman

A recent private party at The Hills.

After getting wind of the Hedwig-themed tribute coming to the former Don Hill’s later this week, we got a chance to talk to Alma Ayala, the creative director of the club that’s set to take over the space. The 40-year-old Carroll Gardens resident tells us The Hills will open sometime next year. Ayala, previously an art director in the music and fashion industries, is still being tight-lipped about the identity of her partners, but she did reveal a thing or two about the future incarnation of the Soho venue where bands like the Strokes played early gigs and where she once caught a secret Green Day show. Read on to hear what she has in store.
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Michael C. Hall and the Hedwig Gang Pay Tribute to Soon-to-Be-Rebooted Don Hill’s

December 3, 2014 By Daniel Hoffman

Don Hill. (Photo: Patrick McMullan)

There are more signs of life at the onetime home of Don Hill’s. No, it isn’t being zombified CBGBs-style. Rather, the club’s soon-to-open replacement, The Hills, will host a tribute to Don himself, featuring Michael C. Hall and other cast members of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, which got its start at the rowdy rock-and-rave dive of yore.
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Tags: b52s, Bars + Restaurants, Broadway, David Johansen, don hill, don hill's, fred schneider, hedwig and the angry inch, michael c. hall, new york dolls, punk, soho, the hills, times square

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BrooklynXchange Ain’t Happening, But BK Vendors Galore in Union Square

November 7, 2014 By Daniel Hoffman

Despite going to the trouble of making a super Brooklyn-y promo video, the market that had hoped to bring Brooklyn makers to Soho during the holiday season has decided to delay its launch. BrooklynXchange posted the following message, informing followers that it was “unable to curate a full compliment of traders that reflect the values of what the BrooklynXchange is to be.”
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The Latest Brooklyn Market Is in Manhattan, Actually

October 14, 2014 By Daniel Hoffman

Brooklyn has become so cool that it’s being imported into Manhattan for tourists who are too lazy to go into Brooklyn. Four years ago, I wrote about the opening of a Brooklyn-themed restaurant in the West Village: “Manhattan’s Brooklyneer Has a Chef From Brooklyn’s Manhattan Inn,” went the improbable headline.
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