By Whitney Jordan & Katarina Hybenova

As time would have it, Bushwick Open Studios 2015 is NEXT weekend and there will be more than enough to see as our neighborhood transforms into the ultimate art mecca of NYC

Weekend is so close it’s practically here now [she roars as her cats run to hide]. For the first time we’re bringing you #DoBushwick, our super-curated guide to the best of weekend events in greater Bushwick area on the website. #DoBushwick comes out every Monday and Friday as a newsletter (subscribe here!). The events are curated by […]

Beat Nite, the neighborhood-wide gallery walk across Bushwick and Ridgewood, is just one week away and we clued you in on several of the newest shows in last week’s round-up of art openings

The diverse and expanding culinary landscape of Ridgewood is about to welcome a new eatery from an old favorite

Many people interested in art know about Mana Contemporary by now: a 1

Instagram Takeover – Ariel Churnin – Fall foliage, tree, changing colors Rough winter winds and the lack of sunshine are conducive to start feeling blue. And even Bushwick, an old good friend who was highfiving us all summer is suddenly all grey and cold. But Bushwick, you can’t fool us, there’s so much to appreciate you! Just […]

It’s the time to bow to the Great Pumpkin, the magical goddess of the fall! Get ready for pumpkin carving, pumpkin ale, and pretty much everything else tasting, smelling or looking like pumpkins

As the Bushwick art scene rocks on with the summer tide, the current set suffuses beyond the industrial landscape and joins our neighbors across the H2O to the east. The Lower East side, vibing from the edge of the East Village to the corners of Chinatown, is a neighborhood we all know for its vibrant […]

Bushwick Open Studios is here again! Were you entirely exhausted after last year’s—running in and out of every single studio, opening door after door until you felt like you were in an M

(All photos courtesy of Rafael Fuchs) What made the show all the more effective was the loving way in which Ruben curated it. He himself being intimately familiar with many of the artists, he tells each story with such care and enthusiasm, this excitement extends into the exhibition in the way it is displayed. Sandwiching moments […]

While stories from the comedic to scandalous are whizzing around the art world a week after the Miami Art Basel Spring Break of the art world (and artists and gallerists alike continue to nurse epic hangovers), one would think that this would send the New York art world into a full-on art coma

It takes courage to make it through a busy Saturday night at the studio building 17-17 Troutman. A veritable maze of corridors where every door you open could take you down the next rabbit hole, the building houses several galleries as well as a number of artist studios, a print lab, and even a chocolatier’s […]

“What the hell is going on with 299 Meserole?” many people have been asking recently

I got this invite a few weeks ago and could tell right away it was totally up my alley: SINGLE AND LOOKING, ArtHelix, 56 Bogart Street, March 12-27, 2013

Welcome to Knickerbocker Ave – a Bushwick staple for mass quantities of toilet paper and late night Red Bulls from various bodegas!!! Did you know that Knickerbocker has practical and fashionable finds that won’t damage your wallet? Aside from the designer stores, proximity to Central Park and Trump Towers, it’s basically the 5th Ave of Bushwick

There is nothing wrong with spending half a day shamelessly indulging yourself with art, wandering and experiencing

Following the second inauguration of President Obama this week, now is probably as good a time as any to take up the questions of race, class and commerce posed by Kelly Anderson’s piercing documentary, My Brooklyn: Unmasking the Takeover of America’s Hippest City

To strangers who asked if we were mother and daughter I replied, “We are friends”

One of my favorite holiday memories as a child was putting up the Halloween decorations

A gigantic snake was wrapping around her, embracing her with its strong limbless body

By Katarina Hybenova

By Jen Hitchings

By Sean Alday

The long version Bushwick Open Studios 2012

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

Since the beginning of the Occupation, there has been a war of perception for Occupiers to fight on two fronts

By Brian Douglas

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova and Terri Ciccone