Williamsburg and Greenpoint have a passionate shared environment, a strong sense of community, especially when it comes to the arts. This weekend the area played host to two “arts and crafts” related events.
One of the art related events was the unveiling of Future Phenomena, a piece by artist Amanda Browder—a large scale (40 foot) fabric [...]
Strange beings inhabit a studio on the Northside in Williamsburg.
Review by Philippe Theise
The first time I saw “Gabi on the Roof in July,” the lovely new film by Greenpoint writer/director/actor Lawrence Michael Levine that is currently screening as part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival, I found the characters so lifelike and contemporary that I could picture them walking down the sidewalk as I [...]
Review by Philippe Theise
The first time I saw “Gabi on the Roof in July,” the lovely new film by Greenpoint writer/director/actor Lawrence Michael Levine that is currently screening as part of the Brooklyn International Film Festival, I found the characters so lifelike and contemporary that I could picture them walking down the sidewalk as I [...]
A. M. Richards Fine Arts
(5/8 – 6/13, 2010)
328 Berry Street, 3rd Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Review by Robert Egert
Jaqueline Cedar
It’s unusual and refreshing to see ambitious, large-scale paintings today, especially from an artist just starting her career. Jaqueline Cedar’s new paintings manifest an admirable attempt to synthesize and reinvigorate figurative abstraction and to reconnect with themes [...]
Photo by Maru Catalan
ON LOCAL SIGNAGE
A one-of-a-kind billboard for Peachfrog, the popular designer clothing liquidators on North 10th Street, was spray painted a couple of months ago by a celebrated Chilean graffiti artist, Francisco Fernandez, aka Dasic. The sign is located at the L train station stop at North 7th & Bedford Ave. Dasic is traveling [...]
By Robert Egert
The human body as a subject in art tells us as much about our society as anything intended by the artist. Even representations of the inner workings of the body reflect social beliefs and cultural perspectives. The ancient Chinese, for example, had no tradition of autopsy and as a result had no [...]