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Installation view of Charles Atlas’s video projections “Plato’s Alley,” 2008 (left), and “Painting by Numbers,” 2011. Photo courtesy Luhring Augustine Bushwick

Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—March 2012

What makes these works most magical is Altas’s power to turn six boring numerals into things of grace and near limitless capacity. If Luhring Augustine keeps mounting exhibitions as good as this one, we should hope they stick around Bushwick for a long time

"Nicki Minaj" necklace by Victor-John Villanueva. Photo courtesy the artist.

Trent’s Artsy Gift Guide

Despite its recent condofication, Williamsburg is still an artistic bastion at heart. Here some of the neighborhood’s holiday gift offerings for the aesthete in your life. Curated by Trent Morse

Detail of “No Sleep ‘til Brooklyn,” 2011, an installation by the People’s Art Collective at the Bogart Salon. Photo by Matthew C. Lange

Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—October 2011

  THE PEOPLE’S ART COLLECTIVE, “NO SLEEP ‘TIL BROOKLYN” The Bogart Salon, 56 Bogart St., through 10/17 At the center of the Bogart Salon, toys and trash make up a sprawling model of two…

Adieu to Two Local Galleries

Williamsburg will soon lose two more beloved galleries. The Hogar Collection, which has graced Grand Street for the last eight years, closes shop at the end of February, and Capricious Space disappears as of mid-March.

Trent’s Top Gallery Picks—November 2010

Alicia Ross at Black & White Gallery, Antek Walczak at Real Fine Arts, Charles Koegel at Slate Gallery…

Last Chance to See “The Vanishing Icons of Metropolitan Ave”

Partners & Spade is currently displaying hunks of Williamsburg history at its space on Great Jones Street. “The Vanishing Icons of Metropolitan Avenue: A History of Williamsburg’s Handmade Shop Signs from the 1980s,” curated by Karen Hudes, features three-dimensional signs that were once ubiquitous along Grand Street and Graham and Metropolitan Avenues.

“The Passing of the Presidential Sash” at City Reliquary

Tonight, Dave Herman relinquishes his post as President of the City Reliquary museum and civic organization. Taking over from Herman will be Bill Scanga, who currently serves as Vice President of Collections. Herman…


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