Fifteen artists all of whom have registered for this years Bushwick Open Studios will have exactly three minutes to explain what they are showing during BOS, and why it is important. Jen Hitchings, Meenakshi Thurikode, Wendy Klemperer or Kweighbaye Kotee from Bushwick Film Festival are among the invited artists to participate in this “intellectual vernissage.”

Bushwick Art Crit Group is a newly formed “networking and creative development community that seeks to give Bushwick artists a nurturing place to share about their work, and to receive feedback,” says their website. Tonight at 7PM, the group will meet for the second time at the gallery of Brooklyn Fire Proof under the lead of artist Christopher Stout who founded the initiative. The admission is free, and everybody is welcomed to join the discussion.

Bushwick Art Crit Group was launched in March 2013, and meets bi-monthly. To learn more about tonight’s event, check out our Events Calendar and read an article by Holly Shen Chaves at Arts in Bushwick Blog.

Photo by courtesy of the artist

We were going to preview the new Daft Punk album this week on Listening Party but iTunes, and possibly every other music publication from here to Uranus, seemed to beat us to the punch. Instead, we’d like to introduce Bushwick to an equally discolicious, albeit darker, producer Antoni Maiovvi who focuses his music energy on what he deems ‘Giallo Disco.‘ For the uninitiated ‘Giallo’ is an Italian crime drama film genre featuring stylistic elements of erotic horror. Mix that up with a little italo-disco and you have the ever suspenseful sounds of Antoni Maiovvi.

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Photo by Margot Berwin

I was dining with a friend of mine who just got engaged. She was complaining, but kind of bragging in a backhanded way, about getting married. And every once in a while she would throw in something like “don’t worry you’ll find your guy soon.” I’m pretty ok with my life. I have a great job, close friends, and lots of fun, but I left the restaurant feeling like crap. Why do women do this to each other? 

- Knotted up in Bushwick

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Another killer art week in Bushwick May 4th – 13th!  In case you missed any of it here is your Weekly Digest from Arts in Bushwick Blog  to keep you current!

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Heavy Woods gets some love from New York Magazine [NY Magazine]

Silly telephone survey finds out that 42% of respondents hate hipsters [The L Magazine]

MTA holds under NY music auditions [MTA]

Yes, the construction of a pool at East River will be a ‘little bit’ pricey [NY Curbed]

Hip Hop Tour of Brooklyn. Awesomeness! [NY Times]

What? Exploding manholes? [CBS NYC]

NY1 stopped by in Bushwick during Bushwick/Ridgewood Frieze Night. [NY1]

Bushwick, East Williamsburg, or even Ridgewood. Who is supposed to keep up with the administrative borders. [Gothamist]

All Photos by Alexandra Uzik for Bushwick Daily

I don’t know about you, but now that it’s getting warm out I’ve been craving some catfish. And if it’s been caramelized in a clay pot by a refreshingly friendly man from Chaozhou, well, that’s sublime. Now I can finally get my clay pot catfish fix at Falansai, a French–Vietnamese restaurant that just opened in Morgantown. Only two weeks into operation, but the owner, Henry Trieu, has already crafted a relaxed, beach-y atmosphere with bright mint walls and wide windows and bird cages hanging from the ceiling.

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Catland on Flushing Ave (All photos by Kathryn Lees for Bushwick Daily)

For most of us noobs who don’t know much of our city’s history, there was a large Occult movement that burst onto the scene during the late ’70s and ’80s. Stories of that movement led Phillip English to our lovely Bushwick and where he is today.

English and Joe Petersen opened Catland bookstore last February to accommodate the revival of the Occult scene that’s happening in Bushwick. “There’s a very young scene burgeoning in this neighborhood, which is one of the reasons we’re here,” English said.

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299 Meserole before rain (photo by Katarina Hybenova for Bushwick Daily)

Big projects planned for this year’s Bushwick Open Studios don’t seem to have any luck. First, Bushwick Basel was canceled. Now we have been informed that the exciting new cultural center at 299 Meserole, the soft launch of which was planned for May 14 to culminate during Bushwick Open Studios weekend, is also in danger.

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The co-Artistic Directors of Third Rail Projects. Photo via Facebook.

Ever heard of Then She Fell, named as one of Ben Brantley’s top theater performances of 2012? If not, please take note. Then She Fell is a site-specific, intimate and immersive theater experience performed at the Kingsland Ward in East Williamsburg. Produced by Bessie Award-winning Third Rail Projects under the co-artistic direction of Zach Morris, Tom Pearson and Jennine Willett, this Sleep No More-esq performance is based on Alice in Wonderland and has received praise after praise. The best news? Third Rail Projects has found themselves a home in North Brooklyn and now you can play too!

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Illustration for Bushwick Daily by Tina Yu.

Light Switch

By Adam Cecil

there is a light switch in my bathroom that does not connect to anything.

i would like to think
(romantically)
that instead of being a dead switch,
it connects by a mile-long wire to a lightbulb in a woman’s apartment,
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