Last week’s openings got us all hot and bothered, literally. Summer weather came back just as it was expected to end—and it’s due to the Bushwick art scene heating up (so it’s not just global warming, guys).  From Valentine Gallery to Schema Projects and onto Outlet, as the temperature gets ready to fall, the suart heats […]

Ok, so if there was any doubt left in anyone’s mind, summer is officially here — in full force. All around the neighborhood there are scenes of people attempting to install their window AC units without letting them plummet three stories; scantily-clad guys and girls trying to wear as little as they can get away with; […]

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ALl photos by Bart Koscinski for Bushwick Daily. It may still be jacket weather in the shade for all but the most hearty Bushwickians, but the sun was out in full force for most of the weekend.  Although some of us may have only made it out of bed early enough to catch the last […]

“Stepping back from my finished canvases is like looking into a magnified mirror. Fragments of my identity emerge to create a visual narrative heavy with cultural idiosyncrasies, sexuality and a yearning for opulence and magic” Martin explains.The multi-faceted works’ biggest strength comes in their ability to be read in multiple ways and reflect back on […]

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Each week Bushwick Daily brings you a new Artist FlashCard, introducing an amazing artist living/working/showing in Bushwick who you need to know

Ladies and gents of Bushwick, it’s all happening

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Whatever it is that you’ve been staring at– the gray slush, an excel spreadsheet, your cat, a brick wall–we recommend you take a break from it this weekend and get something beautiful before your eyes

Last weekend, a slew of talented young performers convened in the back room of Catland, an occult bookstore in Bushwick, to flex their tragic Greek muscles

I was reminiscing on my favorite poem earlier this week—Robert Frost’s Birches, in which he claims, “I’d like to get away from earth awhile, and then come back to it and begin over… Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.” And with Valentine’s Day coming up, my […]

The first thing that caught my eye as I entered Twice Removed , the multimedia exhibition at the Active Space, was a group of people aiming their smartphones at sculptures and drawings along the gallery walls

She once used to live in East Williamsburg and hang out in Bushwick all the time

Northside Festival, Brooklyn’s answer to SXSW, isn’t just music

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There is something magical about the First Law of Thermodynamics

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“Bushwick is a decadent and sometimes punk town, it is hipster but not silly hipster like Park Slope; it’s geek and psychoactive at the same time

Anthropology students Sidsel Filipsen & Jonas Bruun Nielsen share some observations they’ve made studying gentrification in New York and Bushwick in particular

By Peter Hopkins