Art or Garbage: Celebrities [PHOTO ESSAY]

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Phil Buehler

@pwbuehler

Keep your eyes open – you never know when you’ll bump into a celebrity in Bushwick – at an art gallery, gallery opening or on the street during a film shoot. 

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Ben Sinclair of HBO’s High Maintenance with artist Lisa Levy in 2018.
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On of the many “No Parking” signs for film shoots over the years.
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Adrian Grenier at the end of Entourage’s run in 2011.
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Barbara Walters at the Life on Mars gallery in 2015
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Miss Subways 2017 judges, actress/comedian Janeane Garofalo, comedian Baratunde R. Thurston, Art star Reverend Jen Miller and NY1 reporter Roger Clark. Bushwick’s Lisa Levy was crowned winner.
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NY1’s Pat Kiernan appearing on Chris Rose’s “Late Night Basement” at Pine Box Rock Shop in 2013
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Stumbled upon the shooting of the pilot for “I Just Want my Pants Back” back in 2011. The scene was a New York blackout. Peter Vack, Kim Shaw, Elisabeth Hower, non-cast member and Bushwick’s own Dr. Lisa and Jordan Carlos (left to right).
Jason Trachtenburg, Tina Piña and Rachel Trachtenburg (once the Tractenburg Family Slideshow Players) at a benefit for Arts in Bushwick in 2015.
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Writer, reporter, cartoonist, art critic, poet and socialite Anthony Haden-Guest on Dr Lisa’s shrink’s couch in 2015.

Phil Buehler is a long-time Bushwick-based photographer & explorer of urban ruins. He will be publishing some of his work in weekly curated segments on Bushwick Daily – the artists, musicians, performers, street art, events, buildings, art galleries, even the pets and garbage that make Bushwick Bushwick – look for Bushwick: Art or Garbage and Bushwick: Then & Now.


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