Tag: Bushwick
A new collaborative art space has recently opened in Bushwick. Powrplnt provides free and donation-based digital art workshops open to everyone (ages 13-113), training participants in creative software like Photoshop and Ableton Live while working on projects. Powrplnt founder Angelina Dreem spoke frankly to ANIMAL about their mission, their projects and the gentrification of Brooklyn. Powrplnt’s next exhibit takes place […]
New York based designer Hannah Kunkle creates elaborate Photoshop depictions of Kim Kardashian in what she sees as Kim K’s natural role: God. Kim Kardashian is a strange avatar for our times. She represents a mainstream beauty ideal without being skinny or white. Through her reality show, millions have come to view her as relatable, “normal,” someone they […]
The giant pothole in the middle of the Hart St and Knickerbocker Ave intersection in Bushwick has been “fixed.” This bright yellow El Especialito newspaper box was creatively placed into the hole to warn drivers of the obstacle (by replacing it with a more noticeable one). The hole was big enough to partially submerge the […]
Meryl Meisler was in the wrong place at the right time. While photographing the disco scene in 1970’s New York, she’d only heard of the chaos of the 77′ blackout in Bushwick, where the loss of power lead to rioting and looting. When she took a teaching job in the neighborhood, it exposed her to […]
For Bushwick Open Studios 2014, the Bushwick Collective added a few more murals to the already street art-laden landscape of Troutman, Jefferson and Wyckoff streets. We caught Adam Fu, Vers, Solus and others in action over the weekend, but here the completed murals. This year, the Bushwick Collective also held a gallery show, featuring canvases by […]
Scouting NY has another great tour through NYC filming locations, this time from 1971’s The French Connection. The movie spans the city — from Coney Island to East Harlem — beginning with a chase through Bushwick and Bed Stuy near current-day Woodhull Hospital. See highlights from that sequence and their contemporary counterparts above. (Photos: Scouting NY) […]
A depressing new development in Bushwick gentrification, Art F City reports: The loft space 1717 Troutman, which housed artist-run galleries on the border of Bushwick and Ridgewood, has asked all its tenants to leave and cease operating as galleries immediately. The space attracted attention in part because of its curation, which was a step above the […]
When we posted about the impending closing of Goodbye Blue Monday last week, we remarked that some crowdfunding might be in order to help save the beloved Bushwick bar. As it turns out, GBM manager Sunday Wright had the same idea, and has already raised $3,750 through a GoFundMe campaign at the time of this […]
Anyone who wants to can play a show at Goodbye Blue Monday. No matter your personal brand of musical or artistic weirdness, no matter how small your fanbase, how few shows you’ve played before, just email founder and booker Steve Trimboli with some dates you have in mind, and he’ll respond with a friendly if […]
“As far as the building owners go, they seem good. They have been helpful and fair as of now,” Lit Lounge founder and owner Erik Foss tells ANIMAL. “I can tell you this, it’s much more relaxed compared to Manhattan.” Blackbook reported that after 12 years as a Manhattan staple, Lit Lounge is getting a “Bushwick” […]
