Confrontational and jarring, the artists at once built up notions of the beauty of the body and tore them down on Friday during the third weekend in Grace Exhibition Space’s month-long “Climate Change” series, featuring performance artists from all over the world as part of the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival

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

Good tidings all

They are definitely gentlemen clubs

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“You always have to go bigger,” said artist and cultural entrepreneur Peter Hopkins, announcing his exciting plans to turn the empty warehouse at 299 Meserole St into a cultural center of the East Williamsburg and Bushwick area

Who needs Central Park when you have Maria Hernandez Park? Shopping at dollar stores on Knickerbocker Ave, scenic walks on Johnson Ave and romantic counting of rats on the tracks of the L train

By Allison Galgiani and Katarina Hybenova

A little further out and a quick hop to the JMZ line, and the available nightlife starts to expand beyond the typical Brooklyn dive bars

Occasionally, attending a Bushwick gallery opening can feel like stumbling into a hidden garden of rare and enchanting foliage amongst a barren and lonely landscape

Now that we’re a bit deeper into Bushwick, it takes a little more work (and a little more walking) to reach great bars

Dear friends, readers and supporters,

Guy Fieri’s new restaurant: It opened, and it’s awful

Last week

The art world YES man

In the past couple of weeks we checked out a bunch of shows in Bushwick and beyond

When Beauty Bar decided to have a family and headed over to Park Slope there was a sense of emptiness

Bushwick let its freak flag fly this past weekend

Two ideas were organically integrated into nearly every discussion during the citydrift panel discussions over the weekend

Soap bubbles, tiny tequilas, violently damaged Golem of Bushwick, poetry, industrial landscape, multi-person ping pong, Joy Ride

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

By Peter Hopkins

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

The long version Bushwick Open Studios 2012

By Katarina Hybenova

By Terri Ciccone 

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova and Terri Ciccone

By Katarina Hybenova

By Katarina Hybenova

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